Results for: love is a lie
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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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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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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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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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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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Autostraddle Storytime Roundtable: I Quit! You’re Fired! I’m Taking the Goldfish!
Our very best stories of getting fired, quitting triumphantly, and moving forward during that recession thing everyone keeps talking about.