Results for: femme fashion
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Femme Fashion Is Queer Fashion
“I sat there staring at my laptop screen soaking in the news that my love of flirty summer dresses, brightly hued tights, wine-colored lipstick and smiling radiantly in photos made me invisible to those I wanted most to be seen by. I thought I had to make a choice between authenticity and visibility.”
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Boyshorts and Girltrunks 101: Your Queer Underwear Guide
Boyshorts/Girltrunks 101: Including 78 boyshorts, girltrunks and boxer-brief suggestions for weirdos.
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Neither Here Nor There: A BUTCH FEMME Photo Essay
I don’t want to be pigeonholed into a specific category or subject; I want to be seen as everything and nothing. I want to be seen as authentically myself, and to push myself to fully experiment with my favorite art.
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The Bus to Bantayan
There’s nothing like a beach date to the Northernmost tip of your home island of Cebu, Philippines to make you ponder the meaning of love and life, as part of the Filipino diaspora!
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Monday Roundtable: The Style Icons Who Inspired Our Gay Style
“My style icon is Nancy Meyers’ interpretation of a middle-aged white woman after she’s decided to pull herself together sometime in the second act. Wow that is… I feel very called out by own self.”
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Monday Roundtable: The Lesbian Style Clichés We’ll Never Give Up
“One time my coworker asked if I could dress any dykier and you know what? I don’t know. It’s pretty gay.”
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Is She a Lesbian or Just From the Midwest?
Midwestern lesbian fashion — flannel, Birkenstocks, baseball caps — is ignored at best and looked down upon at worst compared to urban, Shane-esque queer style. What happens when it’s given museum exhibit status?
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Yup, A Lot Of Us Are Hairy Dykes After All
It’s true that queer women and non-binary people are more likely to let their body hair grow than straight cis women are — but a lot of us still take it off.
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Our Solution to Climate Crisis Is Each Other
When we gather together, we don’t need to arrive with hope, because we have the power to create it. We will dictate the future.
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The Autostraddle Yearbook: A Decade Of Gay Work
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives…
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Lesbians Got Tattoos First But Now Everybody’s Doing It
Also, watching “The L Word” multiple times makes you significantly more likely to have multiple tattoos. Don’t @ me, it’s math.
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Three Visits to Victoria’s Secret
“She doesn’t mean to be limiting. She just doesn’t see that the way she feels about her body is not the way that I feel about mine.”
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Butch Slut
In the pool hall, my sweetheart and a close friend tease me one night: “unimpressive,” “pure luck,” “you aren’t that good.” They were trying to get my ire up so that an hour later when I told them to stare into each other’s eyes as I fucked my sweetheart’s body, I would mean it with a snarky competitive vengeance, I would mean it with power and control, I would be pushed to take what I want.
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In Defense of Dyke Style
“It took me 14 years to recognize with certainty that I was a dyke. I wish I could say it was about the intellectual complexities of sexuality and gender, or that I was afraid of being different. Those were factors, but not nearly as pressing as this: I thought dykes had bad style.”
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A Tomboy Femme’s Dream Come True: Comfortable, No Frills, Badass Sexy Lingerie
“I’m also embracing my tomboy/blue jean/lazy femme realness more and more each day. This means if I’m going to spend monies on something, it better be perfect for all of my skipping and hopping around the gender presentation spectrum.”
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It’s Bra Week On Autostraddle!
It’s Bra Week on Autostraddle! Read all about it and kick off the celebrations with a mega-gallery of grrrls and bois in a variety of over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders and otherwise-inclined brasseries.
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Bras For Babes With Small Busts
If you hear “AA” and don’t think “batteries,” this bra guide is for you!
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Femme-ish Underwear Realness Two Ways
Just a couple of femmes talking about why we love the underwear we love and why you should look into loving it with us.
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Plus Size Underwear For All Gender Presentations
Bevin, AKA the sexy and talented Queer Fat Femme, is here to bring you the lowdown on plus size panties for all you grrrls and bois.
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Call and Response: On Body Snarking and The Word “Tr*nny”
“If you do feel the need to ask if someone is transgender or not, first ask yourself why. Why is it your business? Why do you need to know? And will it change anything you think about this person?”