Results for: be the change
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Netflix’s “Heartstopper” Includes a Trans Girl in Its Sweet Coming-of-Age Tale
It’s nice that trans people are included in this saccharine world at a time when many are trying keep us excluded.
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Race and Appropriation at the Academy Awards: A 95 Year History
We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.
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Queering the Canon: Where Are All The Trans Rom-Coms?
It’s time trans people get to showcase our desires, in all their variety, in all their complexity, in all their possibility.
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All 100+ Gay Players and Coaches in the 2023 Women’s World Cup
This just might be the most openly gay sporting event in history.
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Also.Also.Also: If You’re Online Reading This, You’re a Part of the Gossip Mill and Can’t Escape It
Navigating what’s the “right” level of panic for Omicron, Kristen Stewart fluff for your holigay break, and… has anyone else noticed that Biden rarely ever uses the word abortion?
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Into the A+ Advice Box #54: FRIENDSHIP DRAMA
Should you tell your friend you’re concerned about her marrying a 20-year old conservative Christian, should you reach back out to someone you ghosted, how do you deal with the aftermath of an emotional affair between your partner and a mutual friend — the team answers these questions about your friendship drama and more!
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Anonymous Sex Diary: The Leather Play Party
“A while ago, my gender friend and I realized we had both searched “power bottom” on Autostraddle, within the same week.” This week’s writer takes us to a leather play party for women and trans people and more!
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Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop” is a Failure of an Adaptation
The live-action Cowboy Bebop takes one of the most fleshed-out universes in a limited anime series — or, hell, in all of television — and strips it of everything that makes it unique.
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30 Easy Super Bowl Snack Ideas To Make Even if You’re Not Watching the Game
I haven’t watched the Super Bowl in years, but I love scalable, shareable snacks.
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You Need Help: My Girlfriend Has No Queer Friends, Is That a Problem?
This is very clearly your problem, not your girlfriend’s problem, and resolving it will be your work, not hers.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries
Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.
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“Killing Eve” 403 Recap: Villanelle Wants To Smell Eve’s Skin
Eve vents to a stranger about her ex (Villanelle) and Villanelle seeks therapy about her ex (Eve). Tbh, Villanelle and Eve should do couples therapy.
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Sex With An X: The Perils Of Performative Spelling
Inclusive spellings have a long, meaningful history, but the current usage, especially replacing certain vowels in words with an “x,” leaves much to be desired – and might actually be actively harmful.
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5 Sex Workers on the OnlyFans Policy Flip-Flop
After facing backlash from sex workers and advocates, OnlyFans reversed its decision, stating on Twitter that the company has “secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community.” But will those “assurances” stick?
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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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For Non-Binary Climber Lor Sabourin, Being Outdoors Is Finding Your Body in a Uniquely Liberating Way
“I had to learn to feel safe enough in my body that I was able to go rock climbing. And then climbing made my body feel like a safer place, and kind of taught me to take care of it.”
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The L Word Generation Q Episode 306 Recap: Questions For Us All Together On Drugs
Bottoms up Bottoms up it’s time for The L Word Generation Q Episode 306 recap and buckle up ’cause we’re taking a drug trip into a musical wonderland where Shane’s anchors are aweigh and Alice is wearing high-waisted acid wash jeans to reunite with her one true love!
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My Favorite Witchy Books of 2021
Every year, more and more brilliant, engaging, inspiring witchy books are published to help both beginner and more advanced practitioners improve their skills with tarot, astrology, tarot, numerology, herbalism, divination, and other sacred practices.
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The System Operates As Designed
Burnout is not simple tiredness. It is malaise and unexplained pain. It is a theft of spirit and the creative body.