Results for: the real l word
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I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong
“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”
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Being or Becoming Real
“I felt disconnected from my art because I had part time and full time jobs that took up most of my time in the world. I wrote on scraps of paper during lunch breaks and tried, at the end of the day, to have an hour or so of “creative time” for myself.”
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Ten Things I’ve Learned In My Four Years at Autostraddle
“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”
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How Do You Scale a Personality Cult?
We do lose something when dedicated queer spaces like Into, Girlfriends and SheWired shutter or AfterEllen goes full TERF, but we also lose something when The Awl, The Hairpin and The Toast do. These were places where writers were free to experiment, to be weird, to make writer-first content that isn’t easily monetizable.
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“Go On a Real Date, With a Real Gay Woman” A Letter On Finding Queer Community from Heather Hogan
1. Come out to my family. 2. Buy a plane ticket anywhere.
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Don’t Look Down: It’s Like Wile E. Coyote Running Off a Cliff
Not to be one of those divorced people who makes everything about their divorce!, but getting divorced will really teach you that nothing about making something “real” or deciding you’re all in makes it any more secure.
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Get These Limited Edition Fundraiser Perks While You Can!
Look at all the cool things you could buy during our last fundraiser of 2020! Get your holigay shopping done early! Tell a friend!
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TRANSCRIPT: Making the Queer Media You Want to See in the World
We live in a time when you can see yourself reflected in all kinds of media, from all kinds of corporations, who never liked to talk about us before. But when you click on those things, you are giving people money who are not part of our community.
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We Need Help: Autostraddle Is Raising Money!
We’ve spent years — our whole lives, sometimes, it seems like — talking about what our community could look like if we weren’t spending all our time and energy on just staying alive, a feeling that queer and trans people know all too well. With your help, we’re excited to find out what thriving looks like.
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We Need Help: I’m Throwing A Birthday Bake Sale For Autostraddle’s Writers!
For my birthday, I wanna give gifts to other humans: specifically, Team Autostraddle. If you donate, you’ll be giving me the best birthday ever, and I’m willing to bake you cookies or even raffle off an A-Camp campership and more!
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32 Hours Of Autostraddle Fundraising Remain, We Hit $100K, Let’s Talk About It!
Laneia, Alex, Laura, Rachel and Bren on what this means to them and lots of overall happiness about reaching $100,000!
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International Autostraddle Meet-Up Weeks: You’ve Earned It
We want to hang out. Like, a lot.