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You Should Go: Staceyann Chin and Anna/Kate Performing In NYC
Poet and playwright Staceyann Chin and queer folk-pop duo Anna/Kate are performing at the Women Center Stage Festival this Friday night!
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Lez Liberty Lit #45: Saved By The Bell Jar
Unknown female beat poets, lesbian historical fiction, the problem with essays, reading more, the answer to the question “how much gay sex should a novel have?” and more.
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Ginger Ale, Outlets, and Crying: Our Travel Rituals in Roundtable Form
From packing to arrivals and back home again, we’ve all got our own way of doing things. In this roundtable, some of Autostraddle’s finest editors share theirs.
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Data After Death: A Digital Will for a Digital Age
More of our lives are lived digitally by the day, and it’s time to start thinking about what happens to all this when we die: do we want it to go to someone else, to be erased, or to remain indefinitely in the ether(net)?
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Obama’s State Of The Union Respects Women, Wants You To Have More Money
If all goes according to his plan (and it very well may not) this will be a year of leaps and bounds for many of the Americans who felt left behind in 2013. Women, people of color and those living in poverty could all benefit from Obama’s plans to use executive orders rather than waiting on a gridlocked Congress to pass anything to his desk.
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BPM: Yuna and a French 75
Yuna (full name Yunalis Mat Zara’ai) uses a lot of synth instruments in her music to layer with a voice that is so sweet and delicate, but not overly saccharine. You really just can’t help but smile and it doesn’t hurt that she’s super super adorable.
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The Radtastic Black Lesbians Who Changed LGBT History and Our Lives
“As this Black History Month winds down, let’s remember that reclaiming histories is not a one-shot deal. Let’s take time to be thankful for these lesbians who kept it queer and kept it real.”
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State of the Struggle: First Come LGBT Legal Protections, Then Comes Marriage
The new Momentum Report from the Movement Advancement Project proves that gay marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. How is the LGBT community doing when it comes to everything else?
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5 Things to Know About Prison Abolition and the Prison Industrial Complex
The criminal justice system in the United States is a fucked up institution that is every kind of -ist you can think of. Lots of people are working to fight it.
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Things I Read That I Love #117: Strangely, Our Outfits Match The Volkswagen.
Topics include Edie Windsor, Party Monster, anxiety, the prison hunger strike, sorority vs. lesbians, growing up in a missionary family, HealthCare.gov and moar!
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MTV’s “Faking It” Is Pretty Good, For Real
Turns out those irritating trailers were just Trojan Horses delivering a cute show with a queer female lead to all of us here on The Isle of Lesbos.
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 17: The Galileo Seven (Logic v. Emotion Cage Match)
“I can neither enjoy the idea of command, nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists.”
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Jason Collins Signs With Brooklyn Nets, Becomes NBA’s First Openly Gay Player
Jason Collins has signed a 10-Day contract with the Brooklyn Nets, making his the first openly gay NBA player and after tonight, the first out athlete to play in one of the USA’s four major professional leagues.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: My Top Five Beautiful Things in Science
At its core, science is a willingness to believe that the universe is knowable. That if we ask the right questions and follow the evidence, we can get to the bottom of how things are, and why.
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It’s Trans Day of Visibility! Here’s 15 Ways To Let Trans People Know You See Them and Care
Trans Day of Visibility is a time when we take notice of all the amazing trans people around us. Here are 15 ways you can let them know that you care about them and support them.
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State of the Autostraddle Union #3: A Letter From Your Editor
What the hell is going on around here.
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We Love The Library So Much: 13 Autostraddle Writers On Their Favorite Libraries
Libraries give us the chance to know something about ourselves and we love them.
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Social Skills or Stereotypes? What My Autism Classes Didn’t Teach Me
“Social skills classes are particularly bad places to learn gender and sexuality lessons because they combine direct instruction with the neurotypical authority of telling us how to act. Socialization groups seem safer, but sometimes, gender and sexuality discrimination still subtly invade them. Where do we go from here? I believe the solution is multi-tiered.”
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NFL Teams Might Be Less Homophobic Than You Think
While early reports seemed to indicate that out NFL prospect Michael Sam wouldn’t have the warmest welcome into professional football, recent statements by league executives and a new poll show that that things might be better than we thought.
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Senate Lets Unemployment Extension Expire, F*cks Over Queers and Trans* People Affected By Recession
While the Senate works out its ridiculous issues, millions of Americans will be waiting for their checks.