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The Pause Project: How to Take Time for Self-Care, Slowness, and Joy
We could all do with a little bit more self-care right now; this how-to takes you through one dyke’s journey to find joy and slowness through The Pause Project. Learn about her process and read about some ways you can curate a self-care project like this for yourself.
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How To Celebrate The Holigays From Afar
Lots of us will be spending the holigays on our own, which may be exactly what you’ve always wanted! But if you are trying to create a sense of togetherness, these activities might help you and your loved ones feel closer in far-away times.
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Don’t Just Change Single-Sex Schools, End Them
As school season begins once again, what young people deserve at the very least is an end to single-sex schools.
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Raising Anti-Racist Kids: A Guide and Book List for White and Non-Black POC Parents
Protecting our children from hard conversations about race is actively aiding and abetting white supremacy. We can’t afford to stay complicit.
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Queered & Careered: 10 Tips on Working From Home in the Era of Social Distancing
Since working from home is a part of the national call to practice social distancing, many of us are also navigating loneliness, restlessness, and anxiety. Here are a few tips that can help you on your journey.
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Some of Your Biggest Questions About Managing Mental Health During Covid, Answered by a Therapist
When are the Shoulds are invading your thought process, and try to be curious about that. What is it The Shoulds are trying
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Queered & Careered: 5 Ways You Can Use Tarot at Work
Just because, let’s be honest: your workplace could use some queer witchy energy.
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Queer Girl City Guide: New York City
New York City is a great place to be gay — and you’ll have a gay ’ol time with our guide to the city’s most notable restaurants, parties, museums, bookstores and so much more!
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Holigay Gift Guide: Planners for Your Most Organized Decade Yet
Planners can be so many things: super structured, super loose, artistic or woo-woo or politically radical or conservatively minimalist. Here are some options to start with for yourself or a loved one!
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11 Multifunction Couple’s Toys for Making Your Own Fun this Valentine’s Day
We grow closer to people by figuring things out together. The best bonding experience is both of you creating it yourselves, and this Valentine’s Day you can do just that with these multi-function, flexible toys.
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How to Quit Smoking
Tell yourself that you’re not like one of those chain smokers, that you can stop whenever you want. Start smoking American Spirits, so it’s like, not even that bad for you because it’s natural, or organic, or something. You forget.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: What Lies Between Us
“Do you feel like we’re drifting apart?” I asked.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Potty Training, Patience and Pride
It’s literally a social science experiment every day and we don’t have any control. That’s how it is with toddlers, I guess…
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Do the Damn Thing, Part One: Setting Goals and Realistic Expectations
January is a time for resolutions, but I’m going to give you something better than that: A pre-New Year three-week lesson on figuring out what the heck you want to do and actually doing it.
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Do the Damn Thing, Part 2: Focus, Boundaries and Single-Tasking
You’ve crafted some longterm goals and set some realistic expectations. Now you’re ready to tackle the most important part of doing the thing: actually doing the thing.
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Do the Damn Thing, Part 3: Fail and Refocus
You’ve done it. You’ve crafted long term and short term goals, made an action plan, set reasonable expectations, nurtured the skills that empower you to focus — and now you’ve failed. Welcome to being a human on this earth!
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Club Fawn, No Naps, and Reclaiming Procreation
Reclaiming queer procreation, dropping the last nap, stupid crows, Baby T. at A-Camp, and losta cute T. Rex pics.
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Queer Girl City Guide: Los Angeles
It’s our epic guide to some of the best places to eat, learn, walk, shop, party and be queer in Los Angeles.
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Like the Other Kids
On top of how hard it is to be transgender in a cissexist world, it’s also really hard to be a child. It can be hard to have two moms in a heterosexist world. It can be hard to have a transgender mom. Put that all together, and I’m just one giant ball of anxiety who is frequently at a loss for the perfect way to help my child navigate the world.
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The Might-Have-Been
I was only pregnant for seven and a half weeks before my miscarriage. There was no body, no breath; there was no measurable part of a lifetime spent together. I’d only known there was life inside my body for three and half weeks, and yet the experience seems to still have a heartbeat.