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11 Women of Color You Should Admire
Eleven Women of Color You Should Know and Admire
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Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.

Scully 101
You, Too, Can Be Made Gay By The X-Files: Scully 101
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"Stef: I don't know how but somehow Rachel managed to find one X Files episode with lesbians in it."

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You Need An Autostraddle Hoodie, Can Buy One Right Now
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Just in time for summer! HOODIES! Hoodies everywhere. Soft super-cute hoodies in two colors (concrete and cardinal red) and unisex sizes!

Ode to Magical Girl Shows
How Sailor Moon Made Me A Feminist: An Ode to Magical Girl Shows
Posted 6 days ago

Maybe it's the influence of Sailor Moon that is part of what made me a feminist, someone who didn't think that being a girl was a weakness but was, in…

Date With A Glasshole
Date With A Google Glasshole: Cyborg Dating 101, A Report From The Field
Posted 6 days ago

A true, first-hand account of a real-life ladydate with a real-life Glasshole. Let's just say that the phrase "breakup-inducing cyborg face device" got tossed around.

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Also.Also.Also: The IRS Targeted LGBT Groups And Other Stories We Missed This Week

The IRS doesn’t discriminate when it comes to discrimination, Andrea Gibson and Kelsey Gibb launch a new website, Brazil legalized same-sex marriage and much more.

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Playlist: Crystal and Somer's Music Hangout

A DJ battle on a mountain top.

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Crystal
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Grow a Little Love: Making Plantable Paper Notecards

Money has a monopoly on the “surprise in the greet card” market. Shake things up a little bit and give a card that grows into a plant.

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Laura
Kelsey May 22, 2013

Almost Famous: Kelsey Montanez

Kelsey’s a Chicago-based musician and rising star. She has a free EP that every pop lover needs to download.

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Crystal
sex toy review May 21, 2013

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: G-Chatting About the Hitachi Magic Wand

“I feel like Hitachi is to vibrators as Dyson is to vacuum cleaners. There just isn’t one more powerful. So if you like vibrators, you should have one.”

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Sparrowhawks’ New EP, ‘Wanderlust’ Is Rad (And Free)

If you don’t know about Sparrowhawks then you’re in for a treat.

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Crystal
May 21, 2013

Get Baked: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough S'more Cupcakes

If you need to drown your sorrows about not going to A-camp, I pinky swear these chocolate peanut butter cookie dough s’more cupcakes will do the trick.

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Vanessa
Julie Goldman and Brandy Howard May 21, 2013

Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Camp with Julie and Brandy

Julie wants me to say, “Nothing brings you to comedy.” I guess she means, we were always funny and attracted to funny people so that’s why we are here. And that it wasn’t necessarily a choice. We were born this way. Now she wants me to say, “YES BITCHES, BRANDY WAS BORN THAT WAY.”

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Carmen
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Make A Thing: Merit Badges

Making merit badges is significantly easier than earning them.

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Hansen
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I'm Not A Gender Zombie and Neither Are You: Rejecting Anti-Trans Bigotry From Rachel Ivey and Deep Green Resistance

Word has quickly spread on the web in the last week or so that Rachel Ivey, a member of the Deep Green Resistance environmentalist movement that holds openly transphobic views as “core” principles, is putting together a speaking tour consisting of a few relatively high profile events in June and July.

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Savannah
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Choose Your Character: I'm Peach, Not Mario

“I did extremely well in any video games with dating elements, like Persona 4, but virtual dating and real dating are two very different things. I could master playing as someone else, but as the old cliché of dating advice often goes, I needed to be myself.”

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Monica
OdetoDaikon May 20, 2013

Ode to My Pantry: Daikonura!

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you daikon, make your own holiday!

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Kristen
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Straddler On The Street: Jillian

Jillian made me want to run away to a farm. Specifically her farm, in Kansas. I think you might feel the same way once you’ve read this interview.

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Vanessa
bum May 19, 2013

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Flirting For Fun

This week on NSFW Sunday: how to flirt, how to spank, how to have a lesbian affair if you live in the 1920s and more.

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Carmen
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Zoe Saldana Bisexual: Responds With Ellipses When Asked About Prior Relationships With Women

“Promise me one thing — if you choose to [print the question "have you had a relationship with another woman?"] just put three dots as my response. That’s it.”

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via ThinkProgress May 18, 2013

Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups Discriminate Is Not the Same As "Religious Freedom"

To your average conservative legislator, it may seem like a good idea to let anti-gay religious or political groups choose not to have members who don’t reflect their “values.” But when it involves having students pay for their own discrimination, it’s not so simple.

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Tech Spring Cleaning Part 3: Actually Literally Cleaning Your Tech

There are only two steps, to be completed on days of your choosing: 1. obtain the following materials and 2. use them on your technology. Ready. Set. Go.

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Ali
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Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches

I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.

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Kate
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The Comment Awards Are Feeling Campy

Cyborgs, Adam Lambert, camp dreams and more!

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carrie
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Five Solo Crash Pad Scenes For Masturbation Month

I like to call this meta-masturbation. Touch yourself to scenes of people touching themselves. Happy Masturbation Month!

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Ali
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Liberty Lit #20: Remember Library Lesbianism

An excerpt from Michelle Tea’s new novel, chicken lit is the new chick lit, library lesbianism, sexism in publishing and more.

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Carolyn
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