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A Convo on the Queer & Trans Takeover of Skateboarding
“Skating as a culture is getting more and more visibly queer”
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Lesbian Visibility Day Roundtable: The Art In Your Lesbian Canon
What is in your lesbian canon? What books, movies and music do you consider essential lesbian material and/or lesbian art that is essential to your own understanding of your identity?
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Monday Roundtable: Queer Culture We Just Can’t Get Into
“Look, I’m sorry! Every year the concept of pride sounds great in theory and then when it actually rolls around, it’s like New Years Eve on acid.”
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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: 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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75 Lesbian Ken Dolls, Ranked By Lesbianism
If you’ve got an ex-girlfriend, we’ve got a Ken Doll for that.
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Mommi Is the New Daddy
Take it from two experts.
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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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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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The 100 Most Lesbianish First Names, Ranked By Lesbianism
If your name is Alyssa, Nancy, or Kai… I have news for you. That news is that you are gay.
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How We Make Faith Tangible As Queers With Christian Roots: A Roundtable
When faith, spirituality, and cultural practice feel complicated and contradictory, it can help to have a physical object to hold onto and reflect upon. These items can root us to our histories of faith — or they may simply be a symbol of old memories.
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50+ LGBTQ Black Women You Need To Know Because We Are Awesome
Black queer women are magical. We’re innovators of style, technology, science, art, music, and all other sorts of badassery. This year for Black History Month, we’ve included another 50 Black trans and queer women that you absolutely must know about.
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What Does It Mean To Be A Queer Adult? The Autostraddle Roundtable
What does it mean to be a queer adult? We’ve got mini-essays from our writers over thirty and three glorious infographics that look at census data and our own Autostraddle Grown-Ups Survey Data to get a grip on what happens next.
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Dear Queer Diary: Meet Abbie
Abbie has a collection of uni-ball roller pens and the coolest bangs south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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Dear Queer Diary: Two Journalers are Twice as Nice
Mary and Frances reveal the secrets of the diary-writing universe.
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Dear Queer Diary: A Friend of Journaling Is A Friend of Mine
Introducing Tango, a shining star in the galaxy of Straddler-Journalers!
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Queer Pilgrimages Past & Present: Van Lust and Lesbian America
Where would you go on your queer pilgrimage?
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Dear Queer Diary: Let the Moleskine Wars Begin
“Prepare yourselves for the ferocious arguments that will take place in the comments, and the relationships that will founder on the rocks of disagreement. Today, we discuss the Moleskine notebook.”
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Don’t Want To Be Part of the Problem: A Field Guide to Airborne Homophobia
Is it possible to be a radical queer feminist and still overhear conversations, maintain friendships and interact in public with unradical non-queers, without screaming at everyone or compromising your identity? A case study.