Results for: work in progress
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Be The Change: 5 Tips to Plan a Damn Good Activist Meeting
How to organize a meeting that won’t result in headaches, boredom, or existential dread.
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The Conservatives’ DUP Deal Illustrates Their Consistently Cynical Support for LGBTQ Rights
After a decade of using our community to score votes, the Tories have shown that they were always waiting to throw us under the bus.
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Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for August 2017
“This month, we get to say no and yes. No to toxic relationship patterns and deeply internalized self-hatred. Yes to sweetness, hotness, surprise, reciprocity, and insight.”
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10 Stupid Questions With 10 Hilarious Queer Women, Part 2
Would you rather be drowned in Jello or suffocated by cheesecake?
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“I’m Not Done Living My Damn Life Yet”: Disabled Queer People Speak Out on the American Health Care Act
“It’s a harsh reality that I will be priced out of my own life at this point if the AHCA gets passed and, quite frankly, I’m not done living my damn life yet.”
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Congress Casually Files LGBT Rights Bill; Trump and Pence Pass “Religious Liberty” Executive Order
Trump is reportedly planning to sign a “religious liberty” executive order that has Mike Pence written all over it — in the meantime, over 200 members of Congress say they’ll just go ahead and file a bill that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the Civil Rights Act.
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Things I Read That I Love #234: I’d Just Been To Burning Man and Was Feeling Very Fluid
Topics include serial killers, gay loneliness, THINX, cults, Mount Rushmore, marijuana delivery, the cost of childcare, “The Kiss” and so much more!
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 39, September 2017
“a new column called The Thrifty Tomboy and i talk about costco for 1,200 words
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Protests, Parties, and What We Have to Be Proud of at LGBT Pride 2017
“Our rage and our joy aren’t at odds with each other; they’re both integral to our history, our present, our future.”
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I Accidentally Went Looking For God In Portland
On Easter Sunday, I didn’t go to a church, but I quietly praised God at brunch in community with friends and strangers and so many carbs and those tiny Cadbury chocolate eggs.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Daytime Divas” Is Your New Guilty Pleasure, You’re Welcome
Also: Jen Richards and Angelica Ross join Laverne Cox on Doubt, Queen Sugar keeps getting it right, and Josh sleeps with Maggie’s straight girl on Younger.
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“The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Finally Here, Super Queer, as Horrifying as You’ve Heard
What makes The Handmaid’s Tale so striking isn’t just this world where all the pretense of female equality has been stripped away, but the ordinariness of such oppression even today.
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Here’s How Queer and Trans People of Color Are Resisting Gentrification and Displacement
Lots of people are talking about gentrification, but who’s actually doing something about it? Queer and trans people of color, of course. In Oakland and Seattle, QTPOC are creating visionary solutions to combat gentrification and reclaim land for communities of color.
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Brianna Wu Is Here, Queer and Running for Congress in Massachusetts
“In the Trump era there’s no room for benchwarmers. Seven out of nine of our representatives are white men in a supposedly progressive state. I think we can find room for a feisty feminist.”
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Sunday Funday Is Playing Dead to Avoid Men and Voting Trans Women Into Congress
Meet these cool dragonfly ladies who feign death to avoid dude dragonflies, a record number of trans women running for office, Democrats moving to outlaw conversion therapy, and more!
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6 Box Wines, Ranked From “Capri-Fun” To “I’ve Had Worse” By 30 Drunk Queers
30+ queers gathered in a room to eat cheese curds and drink box wine. Now I will share the knowledge we obtained with you, because we’re a community and that’s how it works.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Hazy Golden Light
Lambda Literary Award nominees have been announced, Zines will outlive the internet, a bookstore-bar in the Bronx, sexual assault in creative fields, California periods and more.
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Line Breaks for Resistance: How Black Poetry Lets Us Rescue Ourselves
If Alice Walker once said “hard times require furious dancing,” then hard times call for reading poetry, particularly black poets. Follow zaynab’s journey in reconnecting with black poetry as a means of daily survival and understand why reading the work of black poets can enhance our collective understandings of what it means to cultivate and sustain resistance.
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22 Easy Steps to Rethinking Your Whole Relationship Through Late-Night Nudes
Is that insecurity in my pocket or have you just not sexted me back yet?
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NSFW Sunday Is All Possibility
Netflix and relationships, science finally learns about the clitoris (sort of), the We-Vibe “scandal,” what we owe to sex worker activism and more.