Results for: be the change
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Read A F*cking Book: “Stranger On Lesbos” Reminds Us How Far We’ve Come and What Hasn’t Changed
“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”
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The Future of Gender Is the Present For Trans* Characters in SciFi Novels
What do the leading names in science fiction tell us about the future of gender?
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Things I Read That I Love #66: Reading In Underpants
This week’s TIRTL includes a special Underwear Week section, as well as pieces on topics including Jehovah’s Witness, onscreen violence, sex abuse, robots, fan fiction, junk food and Alaska.
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Read a F*cking Book: “Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America”
If I had the power to declare this the official book of Herstory Month, I would. But I don’t have that power. Only you have that power. And you should read this book!
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Ann Bannon, Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Autostraddle Interview
“And so while I would have loved to have done what Laura did, to go to New York and try to find myself, I did the more conventional thing, and I think I was not alone in that.”
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28 Books About Gay Geography That’ll Take You On Journeys Through Time and Place
If you like lesbian history as much as I do, then you’ll love all these books about queer life in various towns, states, cities and countries. Your input is welcome!
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Sarah Kay on TED
“I don’t know if I could change the world, yet, because I don’t know that much about it.”
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Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You
“You can’t trust lesbians. You invite them / to your party and they don’t come, / they’re too busy tending vaginal / flowers, hating football, walking their golden / and chocolate labs.”
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Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn
In which five of us talk about our favorite poet ever. “Those of us who think we know / the same secrets / are silent together most of the time.”
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Pure Poetry #33: Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Marisa Meltzer
“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”
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Pure Poetry #19: Rock WILK is a F*cking Experience
“Rock’s voice was more powerful than my desire for a fresh beer.”
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Pure Poetry #5: Leonard Cohen
“It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I realized that Leonard Cohen was an accomplished poet, that his songs were poetry set to a soundtrack.”
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Pure Poetry #18: Raymond Carver Could Drink Ten Quarts of this Beer
And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
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Pure Poetry #14: Sady Doyle on the Great Poet Diane Di Prima
“This woman found the riskiest, weirdest thing to be, at any particular moment, and then she became it.”
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Read a F*cking Book: Ten Lesbian & Bisexual Poets To Fall in Love With
You probably don’t read enough poetry and you would probably be smarter if you did.