Results for: be the change
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Happy Birthday John Lennon: Here’s Our Top 10 Songs
To celebrate John Lennon’s birthday, we’re talking about our favorite Lennon songs. What are yours?
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Chely Wright, Country Music’s First Out Lesbian Star: The Autostraddle Interview
“The Dinah is gonna be a lot of fun! Truthfully, every time I see a large group of gay women I can’t believe how many of us there are. I marvel.”
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Heard It On TV: The Temper Trap and Diet Coke
Diet Coke has recently revved up the rotation for its mesmerizing commercial featuring “Sweet Disposition” by The Temper Trap, an Australian band with U2-inspired guitars.
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Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club #1: Eileen Myles’ Inferno
Did you read Inferno by Eileen Myles, our first-ever Autostraddle book club selection? I sure as hell hope so, BECAUSE IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT.
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Some Conservatives Hate Gays Less Than Others, Possibly Have Been Influenced by “Facts”
Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter have gone rogue on the Hatred of Gay People issue, and other conservative groups are Very Upset about it. What goes into the making of a conservative who just kind of feels whatever about gays? We check Google News, look at the Jennifer Keeton case (we won!) and make an informed report – and consider the possibility that maybe The Facts sometimes win.
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How the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’s Topless Womyn Changed My Lesbian Life Forever
Lesbian Lindsay was a virgin to the The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival but this year she gave it a shot and it changed her whole life! With recap cartoons provided by Stef.
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California Decriminalizes Marijuana, Glee’s Got Lady-Queer Icons, Happiness Still Exists
KITTENS WEED LADY GAGA DADT REPEAL WONDER WOMAN SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK TV SHOW BRITTANA GLEE MAGIC LOVE SEX VISIBILITY UNICORNS WEED
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Prop 19: Will California Voters Legalize Weed, Or Will Their Mellows Be Harshed?
Midterm elections are coming up! Aren’t you so excited? There’s a lot of people excited/not excited about Proposition 19 in California, it would legalize marijuana, wanna hear about it ok.
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Riese’s Team Pick: Medium-Sized Interviews With Not-So-Hideous Men & Women
Bret Easton Ellis, Ira Glass, Tao Lin and Lydia Davis would like to have a word with you.
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Gaga’s Desert Heart Sings For Arizona – But Is It Protest, or Posturing?
In which we discuss whether there are problems in the world that the Monster Ball cannot solve, calling upon the ghosts of Yoko Ono, Ani DiFranco, etc.
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2010 Winter Fashion Styles For Various Shapes, Sizes, Gender Expressions
Inconvenient truth: it’s about to get a whole lot colder. What this means is that you’ve got to get yourself a coat and start looking up candy-cane vodka drinks and figuring out whether or not you should ask that cute girl to go ice skating.
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Oh My F*cking God, Another DADT Roadblock, What Is Wrong With You People
When Judge Phillips ruled Don’t Ask Don’t Tell unconstitutional, she issued an injunction so that no more soldiers could be discharged until the case was resolved. It would have been relatively simple for Obama and the Department of Justice to let the injunction stand and let the issue rest. HEY, GUESS WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ISN’T DOING.
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Asst AG Fights U-Mich Student President’s “Gay Extremism” With Homophobic Extremism
If there’s any more bad news today, we’re just going to shut down for the day and start over again tomorrow, because this is fucking ridiculous. The Assistant Attorney General of Michigan is stalking and harassing a college student, because he’s insane and the student is gay. We hate everything.
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Pop Rocks! (In Which I Give 8 Popular Albums a Listen, Share my Feelings)
Here’s a list of the latest pop albums I’ve listened to, and how I felt about them.
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Female Friends Forever: Looking at Adrienne Rich’s Lesbian Continuum, 30 Years Later
“If we strip lesbian feminism down to its core – to its advocacy of women-oriented female spaces, women-identified women, and an appreciation of the inequalities and violences that still permeate the heterosexual institution – we might find a lot of things worth keeping around.”
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Glee Episode 203 Recap: “Grilled Cheesus” Don’t Tease Us
In Glee Episode 203, Finn saw Jesus in a sandwich and we saw tears in our eyes at various moments and possibly Mercedes’ bra through her shirt JUST MAYBE.
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This Title Informs You That, Hey, It’s Friday, And There Are Comment Awards
This excerpt tells you that the author of this post wrote it entirely with one hand in a bowl of popcorn, would like to give awards to almost everyone but is slightly crazy and overworked like everyone else on this site/planet, and wishes we could all just get along.
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Crystal’s Team Pick: A Reader & Writer’s Guide to Reading Music Writing
Writing about music can be almost as hard as reading about music. This handy little glossary from Vice Magazine is going to help us all.
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Don’t Want To Be Part of the Problem: A Field Guide to Airborne Homophobia
Is it possible to be a radical queer feminist and still overhear conversations, maintain friendships and interact in public with unradical non-queers, without screaming at everyone or compromising your identity? A case study.
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Gone Too Soon: 13-Year Old Gay Texas Boy Driven to Suicide by Bullying
13-year-old Asher Brown was bullied for being gay. Last week he decided he just couldn’t take it anymore.