Results for: reader survey
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AS Politics Survey: Where Our Readers Stand On Criminal Justice Reform
Where does the Autostraddle community stand on pressing criminal justice issues including bail, incarceration and police brutality? Here are our findings, based on the Autostraddle Reader Survey and Politics Survey that readers most recently took.
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New Polls Reveal Alarming Number of Americans Are Wrong About Trans People, I Wonder Why
Most Americans support bans on gender-affirming medical care for trans youth and participation in sports for trans women — an agenda heartily endorsed by the media they consume.
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34 Feelings You Have About Voting For Joe Biden
“I would vote for a dead dog if it was running against Trump.”
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AS Politics Survey: LGBTQ Health Care & Amy Coney Barrett’s Impacts
Amy Coney Barrett’s political views and her stances on several health care issues are going to inflict a lot of harm on many people. We looked at how important these issues are to our community, using data from the Politics Survey, to discuss what’s at stake with Barrett’s impending nomination to the Supreme Court.
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Also.Also.Also: Have You Considered That Mindful Masturbation Is the Key to a Good New Year?
New Kehlani dating rumors, queer farmers working to build community in rural spaces, and the Latinx roots of punk music. (Also not to be dramatic, but is this how American democracy ends??)
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Take Autostraddle’s Politics Survey: We Want Your Queer Opinions
What are the political issues in the US you are most concerned about? What are your priorities for securing LGBTQ+ rights? And if it were up to you, dear reader – of any citizenship, living in any country – who would you vote for in the US presidential primary elections?
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AS Political Survey: What Top Political Issues Most Matter to Queer Communities During the 2020 Election?
Over 2,000 respondents lay out the “real” gay agenda: If queer people were running the United States it would be, undeniably, a more environmentally friendly, equitable and humane place to live.
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Warren Leads Autostraddle’s Politics Survey, Sanders Is Second and Everyone Else Is Far Far Away
Who do the LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people who took our Politics Survey plan on voting for in the Democratic Primary?
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Mary Bonauto, Lead Obergefell Attorney, on What Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Means for Marriage Equality
RBG’s death and ACB’s confirmation left a lot of LGBT folks reeling, wondering what Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation means for marriage equality. Are folks right to be worried? Yes, admits Mary Bonauto, the Civil Rights Project Director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the lead attorney in Obergefell v. Hodges.
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Ferguson and Community Trauma: Defining Peace For Ourselves
We see violence not only in the crimson of blood spilled far too many times but also in the varying shades of brown on the skins of people of color. To be a person of color in the United States, and in the global narrative, is to be the shadow of violence.
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This Is on Us: 7 Things for White People to Commit to Right Now to Protect Black Lives from the Police
The pandemic has many of us feeling, in some ways accurately, that we’re helpless, or that there’s nothing we can do. The good news is, there is; there always has been. To that end, I’d like to ask you, a white person reading this, to make a public and material commitment to what you’ll do to end state violence and the endless targeting of Black people by the police apparatus.
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On This Tragic Shabbat: 11 Murdered by Anti-Semitic Terrorist at Pittsburgh Synagogue
In Jewish philosophy, the “Tree of Life” is emblematic of the wisdom of the Torah: “its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.”
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The Mexplainer: A History of Anti-Brown Violence in the American Southwest
Latinxs are under attack. Since gringos first decided to manifest their destiny on our land, Latinx people in the United States have been forced to live under a regime of fear and degradation: White Supremacy.
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Not Just Murder Victims: A Plea on Trans Day of Visibility
“If we are going to mourn our lost trans siblings, family and community members publicly, we need to do right by our community and contextualize their deaths with accuracy and intention.”
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Trump Administration Axes LGBTQ Count From Census, Clearly Fears Learning That Everyone Is Gay
These numbers could make a serious difference for the LGBTQ community and now we’re not gonna get ’em.
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Bisexual Governor Kate Brown Talks Openly About Surviving Domestic Violence, Shuts Down Opponent’s Ignorance
Kate Brown, Oregon’s current governor, has already made a mark in history; she’s one of the few openly bisexual women in public office in the US. This week, she came out as a survivor of domestic violence during a debate with her Republican opponent, Dr. Bud Pierce.
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Also.Also.Also: Wizarding Schools, Chin Talk and Other Stories to Start Your Week
Lots of Harry Potter stuff happening right now, emotional complexity, late people, rich kids and veggies, reparations, being a teenage girl, “diversity,” and honestly more amazing stuff than you can shake a stick at, so get in here.
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Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal Makes Missouri History Attempting to Filibuster Anti-LGBT Bill
A heroic attempt to filibuster for LGBT rights in Missouri, lots of new data from police violence to environmentalism, a terrifying transphobic Tennessee law, and more.
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Where Do Lesbians Live? New Gallup Numbers Add More Numbers To Pile Of Confusing Numbers
In which I dive into piles of mostly-confusing data to figure out where the girls are in a country where gayborhoods tend to be filled with boys.
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Alabama and Kansas Put LGBT Parenting Rights At Risk
A mom fights for visitation rights with her kids in Alabama, slurs yelled against protester at a Donald Trump rally, 195 countries have agreed on a new environmental policy, Daniel Holtzclaws’ conviction, and more.