Results for: love is a lie
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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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Show Us Your Planners: A Queer Organization Roundtable
“I like my setup right now because it’s a visual reminder that little by little, progress adds up.”
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Roundtable: Our Long and Winding Career Paths
“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Entrepreneur Alyah Baker on Uplifting Queer, Trans, POC Makers and Brands
“After 13 years of corporate work I just needed to do something that felt like it mattered to me and to the communities that I was part of. I’m passionate about self expression, human connection, building community, and subverting the status quo by creating environments and experiences where women, POC, and queer and trans folks are prioritized.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Designer Sarah Gottesdiener On Creating Feminist Propaganda
“I offer products that strive to act as feminist propaganda, as a reality disruption. To pay my gargantuan monthly student loan debt by selling weird feminist gear? It seemed like an awesome joke on the universe.”
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Business Of Art Fix #26: Everybody Wants To Get Paid (Subscriptions)
Medium becomes a publishing platform, gay magazines are so very white, Facebook introduces live video, Spurned Elle Writer Goes On Totally Bananas Rant, proven conversation topics with strangers, Buzzfeed falls short of revenue projections and so much more!
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Follow Your Arrow: Gym Owner Nathalie Huerta on Hard F*cking Work
“I didn’t get any funding until year three and it came from a member who truly believed in me. Now in year six, funding opportunities are coming from multiple places, thank you baby Jesus, but all of those opportunities are coming my way from relationships I have formed, not from banks or investors.”
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This Business Of Art Fix #21: Nothing Is Off-Limits, Everything Is Content
How to be a person and/or a brand and/or a confessional female memoirist, Huffington Post Gay becomes Queer, optimizing your to-do list, a reporter in trouble at The Intercept and more pressing stories from the edge of your supportive office chair!
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Follow Your Arrow: Photographer Michelle Davidson-Schapiro on Confidence and Caring
“It’s the kind of work that makes me look forward to eight hours on my feet holding five pounds of camera in my hands with another seven pounds slung across my back. It’s wonderful to create not just art, but art that makes people feel special and good and beautiful.”
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You Need Help: You Want the Job, But Don’t Feel Qualified
I’ve been on both sides of the hiring table. I’ve been the one applying for a job and the one interviewing job applicants. Here’s what I’ve learned.
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This Business Of Art Fix #19: In The Future, Everybody Will Be Famous For 15 Dollars
Topics include being both YouTube famous and broke, Nieman Lab’s predictions for journalism in 2016, the year’s funniest media corrections, productive things to do while job-hunting, a new website for conservative women, LGBT folks and people of color, and moar!
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Follow Your Arrow: Virtual Assistant Lizzy Goddard on Entrepreneurship and Chronic Illness
“In 2013 I was too ill to work, living on disability benefits, and had just dropped out of my masters degree. I was introduced to the world of lifestyle design, which then led me to the world of online business. Here were all these people, working from home/travelling, and running fun businesses from their laptops. About 2 months in I was making more than enough to live off, had doubled my rates and was hovering around fully booked…and now I’m a full-time, accidentally permanent VA!”
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The “Who Pays Writers” Conversation Needs a Little Nuance
Holding The Rumpus to the same standards as The Huffington Post is ridiculous.
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Business of Art Fix #12: Like Being Perpetually Two Drinks Into A Really, Really Fun Night On The Town
Nerve.com begins a new chapter with a look back on all previous chapters, The Butter shutters, September is a big month for black women on magazine covers, The Daily Beast shuts down comments and more interesting stories!
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Business of Art Fix #10: We’ve Got The Tiger Beat!
So many cool stories including a new chapters for Tiger Beat and Highlights for Children, Comcast investing in Buzzfeed, how we use slack, pitches we’re looking for and the importance of the online commenting conversation.
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This Business of Art Fix #8: When One Thousand True Fans Isn’t Quite Enough
Topics include “the cult of Vice,” the folding of Scratch Mag, mental illness in business environments, the theory of 1,000 True Fans, Trollbusters and more!
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Follow Your Arrow: Where Finding Your Passion Meets Building a Business
Welcome to this new column featuring interviews with queer and trans women running all kinds of businesses! We’ll talk about the challenges, what drives us, tools and tips, workspaces, marketing, and realism. First up: Beth interviews herself about her business, Little Red Tarot.
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This Business of Art Fix #2: How Not To Do Journalism
Topics include the report on Rolling Stone’s UVA story, the shuttering of The Bold Italic, how the hell does networking work, the VIDA count and MOAR!
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Be A Person Who Gets Shit Done: A Gentle Guide
No new apps, intense #lifehacks or complicated productivity systems here — just solid habits to get into for an ass-kicking 2015.
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9 to 5 For Radicals: How to Survive Your Soul-Sucking Office Job
When you have one of those days when you look at the container of paper clips on your desk and think “Is this all that I am now?”, it’s time to take action.