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Queering Wealth: Examining Our Attachment to Nonprofits
How can we move away from a colonizer, savior mindset when it comes to supporting our community with money, and move into a more collective-centered mindset?
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An Abundance of Librarians, Both “Sexy” and Unspecified: 544 Jobs A+ Members Have!
From nursing (THANK YOU!) to forestry to operating a particle accelerator, our A+ members reported working over 500 different jobs in the 2020 Autostraddle Reader Survey.
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We Need a Three Day Work Week
The time has come for us to abandon ideas of “normal” and imagine new worlds. What if we also imagined less time at work? What if every weekend was a four-day weekend? If I haven’t convinced you yet, here’s 22 reasons why.
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Queered & Careered: Manifestation Journaling (Or Using Woo-Woo Talk to Claim the Life You Want)
During this challenging time, use your journal to throw your dreams into space. Imagine what could be and use that energy to fuel your long days.
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Queered & Careered: 4 Questions to Build Up Your Brand While We’re at Home
Everyone builds or maintains their brand every time they walk into a room. The issue is that right now we’re walking into less and less rooms.
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Queered & Careered: In the Meantime (Or Things to Do While You’re Unemployed)
One of the most insidious effects of unemployment in a capitalist society is that we start to doubt our worth if we are not tied to a job. Our daily resilience IS productive and we deserve to celebrate ourselves, employed or not.
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Queered & Careered: Practice Career Cocooning
Inspired by a caterpillar, cocooning describes a time when you are forced to wait and prepare for the transformation that is taking place inside you. Thanks to Covid-19, many of us are dealing with career cocoons right now. Here’s how to cope.
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Queered & Careered: How I Use Journaling to Resist at Work
Need a ride or die bestie at work who will listen, affirm you, and help you process that recent microaggression? Turn right to your journal!
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Queered & Careered: Career Anxiety
We’re concerned about our health during this pandemic, and for many of us, this stress is further exacerbated by job and financial instability. It’s time to dive into ways we can combat career anxiety when it inevitably comes our way.
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Queered & Careered: Five Unconventional Ways to Honor Yourself at Work
Honoring yourself is about creating fun, rejuvenating, life affirming practices that help you stay grounded and practice self-compassion. They should join you in life, and in work.
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Queered & Careered: Tackling the Monster of Career-Envy
‪Jealousy will always be there. There will always be someone that you or society perceives to be smarter, stronger, or more competent than you. We must get curious about our jealousy – become friends with it, and then tell it to be productive or get going.‬
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Queered & Careered: 10 Tips on Working From Home in the Era of Social Distancing
Since working from home is a part of the national call to practice social distancing, many of us are also navigating loneliness, restlessness, and anxiety. Here are a few tips that can help you on your journey.
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You Need Help: How Do I Come Out as Trans at Work?
Here are some tips to come out at work as safely as possible, and it requires a little bit of preparation in and out of the office.
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How Do You Plan for Transition in a Pandemic-Related Economic Depression? Financial Advisors Have Some Thoughts
The COVID-19 quarantine, which now, perhaps, connotes to be known as a period of extended doldrums for gender transitioning adults across America, has produced its share of coping mechanisms.Autostraddle caught up with two financial advisers who serve transgender clients, Timothy LaPean and Hans Heath.
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Do the Damn Thing, Part 3: Fail and Refocus
You’ve done it. You’ve crafted long term and short term goals, made an action plan, set reasonable expectations, nurtured the skills that empower you to focus — and now you’ve failed. Welcome to being a human on this earth!
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50 Blogs and Books and Podcasts That Inspire Queer Entrepreneurs
The internet is full of resources to help you start and run your business. These are some of our faves!
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Do the Damn Thing, Part 2: Focus, Boundaries and Single-Tasking
You’ve crafted some longterm goals and set some realistic expectations. Now you’re ready to tackle the most important part of doing the thing: actually doing the thing.
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“Good Company” Is the Best Magazine a Queer Aspirant Could Ever Dream Of
“Good Company,” a new magazine from Design*Sponge’s Grace Bonney, is a radically diverse incredible new project you should support ALSO I JUST SO HAPPEN TO BE FEATURED IN ONE OF THE ARTICLES.
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You Need Help: How to Be More Assertive (or, When to Clap Back at Men)
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers
“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”