Results for: be the change
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The Fall of Roe Is For All Of Us
There’s a lot of confusion going around about what this all means and as someone who worked in repro and/or civil liberties work for over fifteen years, I’m here to demystify the moment we’re in right now.
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The 40 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows on HBO Max With Lesbian, Queer or Trans Characters
Come with me on a journey into the best of what HBO Max has to offer fans of lesbian, bisexual and queer television.
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Bisexuality, Queerness, Labels, Perception: A Conversation Between the EIC and the HBIC
Autostraddle’s Editor-in-Chief and Head Bisexual-in-Charge talk bisexual discrimination on dating apps, biphobic stereotypes in queer relationships, “the patriarchy,” and having tent sex in the woods.
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Vote Now in the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards!
Welcome to the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards (previously known as the Gay Emmys)! These awards are meant to celebrate the best of television — through a lens of LGBTQ+ representation.
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“Good Trouble” Episode 411 Recap: The Year of Yes
Am I a little sad that Alice didn’t use this opportunity to find out more about Sumi’s feelings and what sparked their initial break-up? Yes, but the biggest impediment between Alice and Sumi has always been the lack of trust. This is how you build it back up.
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Anonymous Sex Diary: Shibari and Stolen Privacy
“I’m not in a place where coming out to my family is a reasonable option. Fortunately, I have a husband who is more than happy to cover me during my prolonged phone conversations with other partners.”
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Mairead Sullivan’s “Lesbian Death” Tells Us Why the L Isn’t Disappearing
Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an identity, political standpoint, and theoretical concept.
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“The Boys” Narrowly Missed A Bury Your Gays Storyline
The Boys sidesteps a harmful queer trope but only after sidelining their only queer woman for the season and I’m not sure how I feel about it.
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I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong
“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”
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Also.Also.Also: Halle Berry Is Running Around Calling Young M.A “That’s My Baby”
Aging while queer, a brief foray into wondering if straight women are OK, and what makes a gay bar… well, gay
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Using Seeds and Soil, Cuir Kitchen Brigade Helps People Feed Themselves and Their Neighbors Through the Coronavirus Pandemic
Our way is a commitment to long lasting change, to self-sufficiency, to inter-dependence and to creating the world we want to see.
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Also.Also.Also: Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts Are the First Same-Sex Couple to Cover Essence Magazine, Ever
And it’s time to put everything on the line for trans kids in Texas (and so many states to come).
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Murray Hill on “Somebody Somewhere” and His Decades-Long Career in Showbiz
“To me, showbiz means the spotlight is on you. And not only is the spotlight on you, but you’re feeling the light. You’re feeling the light and then you’re giving the light.”
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A Quest for the Perfect Gingerbread Bake To Serve This Holigay Season
I chose four new to me recipes — a gingerbread cake, gingerbread rolled cookies, gingerbread drop cookies, and gingerbread bars — and am here to report back.
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WNBA Week 1: Aces Dominate, Sky Shine, Fever Win!
The first week of 2023 WNBA action has come to a close, and Natalie and Heather are here to run it down for you! Here’s where the league stands after its first week back!
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Pop Culture Fix: Cameron Esposito’s “Rape Jokes” Has Already Changed the Comedy Game
Plus: Vida has been renewed; new trailers for G.L.O.W., OITNB, and Anne With an E, Alia Shawkat opens up about that NYT interview, Lena Waithe is everywhere this Pride, and so much more.
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“Gentleman Jack” Is Not Keeping The Bed Warm For Some Man!
Anne Lister employs the ultimate lesbian tactic of wearing a low power ponytail so that men will cower before her. Ann Walker has had it up to here with her greedy family.
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Queer Naija Lit: “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde Names the Things People Would Rather Look Away From
Welcome to Queer Naija Lit, a new series that analyzes and celebrates queer Nigerian literature. First up: a review of the new novel “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde.
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“Thor: Love and Thunder” Promised Us Gay Valkyrie, So What Happened Here?
After being queer coded for years, everyone expected that Valkyrie would finally have a major gay storyline. And yet! How did Marvel still get it so wrong?
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Wild Cravings: Memory Soup
For over two years, I’ve been searching for soup. A specific soup. A watercress soup I ate maybe a handful of times spread out over a handful of weeks in the spring of 2015.