Results for: queer parenting
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A Close Look at the Ridiculously Sweet Trans Whiskey Commercial
It definitely made all of us cry.
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Instagram’s New Away Message Feature Got Me in My Middle-Aged Feels
Leave your funniest (or wittiest) “Note” (read: Instagram away message) in the comments — we all could use more joy these days!
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A 30-Day Lesbian Bar Crawl With the Creators of the “Cruising” Podcast
30 days. 21 lesbian bars. Three queer people. One epic road trip.
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Chatting With Meg Elison About Investigating Rural Poverty in “Find Layla”
Elison’s latest novel, Find Layla, looks at the realities of poverty and neglect for teens in the age of social media.
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Unlearning Stigma This Bi+ Week
Stigma isn’t easy to overcome this. To a large extent, we can’t do it alone: we are social creatures, and we depend on developing and maintaining relationships with each other in order to survive. But it is possible.
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Fashioned with New Language: A Conversation on Bisexual & Trans Shared Experience & Solidarity
“At the cultural level, in the US at least, when you say someone is bisexual, the image that automatically generates is of a cis bisexual person. The double erasure of bi+ trans people is something that really hurts and also makes a lot of sense.”
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23 Black Queer and Trans Femmes to Follow on Instagram This Black History Month
Honey, these glorious embodiments of black femme magic are about to sweep you off your feet.
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“Don’t Tell the Babysitter Mom’s Dead” Isn’t Afraid of Feelings or Jokes
“Don’t Tell the Babysitter Mom’s Dead” is a beautifully produced podcast for anyone interested in exploring themes of family and loss, but especially for people looking to connect to another queer soul who lost their mom young.
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Monday Roundtable: Since You’ve Been Gone
These are the things that are gone from our lives now but we still think about and miss all the time.
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Here, Queer, Everywhere: ‘Queering the Map’ Gives Voice to Queer Spaces Worldwide
“The aim of the project is to make legible memories, histories and moments of queerness that would otherwise disappear.”
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Monday Roundtable: Say My Name
“The thing is, if the people in your life respect you, they’ll give you the space to figure out where you’re comfortable. It’s YOUR name. You’re the person who has deal with it every second of your life.”
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Monday Roundtable: The First Gay and Trans People We Knew
“Sipping coffee in their sunny drenched kitchen was the first time I really saw myself. I could imagine it. I could see how I could be gay and still… be me.”
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Meet Me at Cuties: The Queer-Owned LA Coffee Bar that Puts Community First
I sat down with Cuties founders Iris and Virginia to talk about finding community, running a commercial space, and how to hold community members accountable.
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Monday Roundtable: Our First Online Communities
“I also spent some time writing an intentionally awful Snape/Dobby/Giant Squid love triangle short story because sometimes you have to make your own fun.”
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Monday Roundtable: Feels Like the First Time
Here are first time experiences that seem mundane to everyone else but were truly special for us.
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By Any Other Name: The Power of Loaded Language in Christofascism
When my parents told me I was being “rebellious,” that my character was “ungodly” and that I was “going down the path to hell” for not doing the laundry that day or being a good caretaker in general, what they communicated to me was: I was not fulfilling my role properly, to continue to fail would mean more punishment, more isolation, unless I followed “God’s will.”
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Autostraddle Bi+ Week Roundtable: Choosing Visibility
How do we want to be seen in our daily lives? How much control do we really have over it? How do we make ourselves visible in a world that often chooses not to see us clearly, and what risks and complications come with it? There’s no one answer, which is why we had all these Autostraddle staffers who identify somewhere under the bisexual umbrella talk about it for you!
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Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice
“I’ve had countless hushed conversations with friends about this anxiety, and how it has led us to refrain from participation in activist events, conversations, and spaces because we feel inadequately radical.”
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Twitter Is the New Black Church
I grew up hearing stories from elders about how integral the black church was to their lives during the Civil Rights era. Being a queer woman, I never quite felt that same sense of camaraderie in the church. So I found my sanctuary on Twitter.
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Check Out Collectively Speaking, Enhancing QPOC Visibility On Their Own Terms
QTPOC-centered podcast, YouTube channel, and website Collectively Speaking launches today! Support QTPOC media!