Results for: be the change
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Autostraddle Before the Tipping Point: A Trip Through the Archive
This year for Trans Awareness Week, I wanted us to focus on recent trans history. Autostraddle itself is part of that history.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #59: You Love Her But There’s No Passion
What do you do with your facial hair, how do you make friends in your 30’s, where is your motivation these days, how do you cope with your wife breaking things off, with an unhealthy friendship, with changes in your sexuality? The team answers these questions and so many more!
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Things I Do To Feel Submissive Even Though My Partner Isn’t Super Dominant
There’s room for ‘incompatibilities’ if we find mutually supportive ways to manage them.
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Soul Train Awards Reject the Cis-Tem, Rename Gendered Award for Janelle Monáe
And ICYMI, they also won a top-off with Usher in Vegas right before Thanksgiving. Big week for Janelle Monáe.
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The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023
I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.
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Enter Sapphic Fall Mode With These Fresh Flannels
It’s about time for our annual family trip to go apple and pumpkin picking, so I have flannel on the brain.
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Watch Ali Krieger and Megan Rapinoe Play Their Last Game: An Everything You Need Mega Post
Megan Rapinoe and the OL Reign will face Ali Krieger and Gotham FC for the NWSL Championship on Saturday. It’s a fairytale ending. Both will retire as legends, but only one will finish their career as a NWSL champion.
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Be The Change: The Key to Unlocking Your Power
To truly do the work from our standpoint, from a place of strong objectivity, is crucial. So what does that look like? What does using our individual standpoint to make change look like?
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Sundance 2024: “Power” Is an Effective Introduction to the Violent History of American Policing
Yance Ford’s latest film shows how different groups have not only assimilated into whiteness but assimilated into American policing.
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You Need Help: My Girlfriend Struggles With Social Skills
Just because someone operates differently from you doesn’t mean they’re wrong, bad, or need help.
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Boobs On Your Tube: “grown-ish” Proves Some Shanes Never Change
Plus: Margaret Cho on an extra queer episode of High Maintenance, Clea DuVall on Broad City, Mel Vera is back on her bullshit on Charmed, S.W.A.T. gets real gay, a sapphic Mermaid triple spoon on Siren, a peek at Ellen Page in Umbrella Academy, and more!
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Sundance 2024: “In the Summers” Is a Different Kind of Queer Coming-of-Age Story
In the Summers is a queer coming-of-age movie that understands childhood and adolescence are just the beginning.
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Also.Also.Also: How Halloween Became “Gay Christmas”
A look at the history of queer Halloween celebrations and more LGBTQ+ culture and news.
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“Free Them All” Makes a Feminist Argument for Prison Abolition
Gwénola Ricordeau has written an ideal academic text. It is, at once, simple to read and complex in its ideology.
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Lesbosexy Art Attacks NSFW Sunday
This is an art attack. This is an art attack. This is NSFW Sunday Lesbosexy Art Attack!
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Be The Change: Battling Activist Burnout
“I share all this because I feel like everyone I know is struggling to keep it together lately, to have-it-all or to be-everything-to-everyone or to fight-the-good-fight.”
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This One Time At Queer Writing Camp: All About the 2013 Lambda Literary Retreat
What I learned from a week on a hilltop with 50 queer writers.
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Also.Also.Also: On Election Day, Virginia Is a Key State for LGBTQ+ Rights in South
Right now, Virginia is the only state in the South with more protections for LGBTQ+ people than discriminatory policies, but that could shift based on the results of today’s elections.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: Tips for Navigating Back-to-School Time for LGBTQ+ Parents
Establishing a good relationship with your child’s school when you’re a queer parent is incredibly important.
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You Need Help: How Do I Make Myself Like My Girlfriend’s Cat?
You already did things right by talking about this before moving in together. Now it’s time to talk some more.