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The Fugly Dyke Chronicles: How Getting Trolled About My Insecurities Is The Best Thing That Ever Happened to My Self-Esteem
“I didn’t even tell her when the notes started getting specific. Someone calling out my “crossed eyes” in a Tumblr ask. My “pocked skin” in an email. My “hillbilly teeth” on Twitter.”
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Read A F*cking Book: Laurie Penny’s “Cybersexism”
Two years after writing that “a woman’s opinion is the miniskirt of the internet,” Laurie Penny is in no shortage of them in her latest mini-book.
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22 Things Lesbians Said About The Internet In 1994
“I know more about dyke cultures by being net-connected. It expands my world. We are definitely trail-blazing and cutting edge.”
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Let’s Get Brunch: July 26-28 Is International Autostraddle Brunch Weekend
It’s the most delicious time of year! You should join your local Straddlers for some 3D brunchy realness.
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Team Pick: “We Think Alone” Will Make You Love Checking Your Email
Cara’s Team Pick: Miranda July is nosy and YOU can reap the rewards!
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Find Yourself a Wing Ma’am
This not-so-dating app helps you find your community and maybe even a girlfriend.
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My Misspent Youth
Riese’s Team Pick: “Like the naïve teenager who thought Mia Farrow’s apartment represented the urban version of middle-class digs, I continued to believe throughout college that it wasn’t fabulous wealth I was aspiring to, merely hipness.”
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OPEN THREAD: What Did You Do Without Autostraddle?
“I laughed, I cried, I was introduced to alcoholic whipped cream.”
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What if Reading Your Girlfriend’s Email Was Illegal?
A dude in Michigan is facing felony charges for reading his wife’s email on their shared laptop. As if.
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Google Instant Debuts, Instantly Excludes Lesbians
Ever try to search for lesbian-friendly content on Google and come up short? Us too, and the new Google Instant excludes lesbians altogether. Lesbians queer sex hot sexy lesbians sexy sex.
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Advice for Homogays, From Homogays (Formspring Fall Cleaning)
You have many so many feelings! We’ve taken your formspring questions and turned them into a one-off advice column. Someone wanted to know how to make tacos, but Laneia didn’t have an answer for that.
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Net Neutrality and the End of Days: Why It Matters
The death of net neutrality may spell the end of all that is odd and good about the interweb as we know it. And it’s really important to learn why. You like lolcats, don’t you? I thought so.
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10 Best Quotes From Midsummer’s Great Girl-on-Girl Feminist Cyberwar
It’s a new dawn & a new day for feminism on the internet, and a lot of ladies have said a lot of things about it and even if nobody won The Daily Show/Olivia Munn/#yallarejustjealous cyber-wars, some of those things are really important things! Also, Jezebel is taking over the internet if that’s ok with you.
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Is Facebook Helping the Gay Rights Movement by Outing You?
Newsweek has a new article about gay people! This time, a new writer wonders if facebook might change the ACTUAL FACE of gay America? Also, Margaret Cho on Rue McClanahan, lesbian newlyweds are the first in the New York Times Vows video series, Dutch airline denies gay flight attendants request to not stay in Iran and South Africa’s only lesbian soccer team.
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Who the F*ck Are Those Anonymous Internet Commenters, Anyway?
The Boston Globe takes an in-depth look at anonymous internet commenters and clearly we have some feelings re: this. Also, Samoan culture has a third gender for trans women, Target accidentally got into the business of fascism, French law seems to love gender policing, more on the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition, and there’s a new Bollywood film about Hitler?
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41 Geeky Women to Follow on Twitter #ladygeeks
Everyone needs a geek or two in their lives, maybe a geek or three in their bedroom, so why not follow a few on Twitter? Hell, follow 41 of ’em! Here’s Technostraddle’s list of 41 lady geeks who like to Tweet! Tweet at them! Tweet on them! DM them saucy things! Go wild!
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Will Giving Up Men and Targeting Lesbians Save the WNBA?
When times get tough, the tough get marketing to lesbians — it might be the WNBA’s only hope of financial survival. Also; Crafts Gone Wild, Ms. Magazine, Mexico’s Pink Taxis, and the straight couple suing a gay cruise for not warning them.
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Daily Fixes: Analyzing Britney, Labeling Queers, Censoring Maddow & Testing Cleavage
Did You See That Comment Friday, Gen-Y Nostalgia, Using One’s Boobs to Get Ahead, Rachel Maddow in Pride Magazine, TR Knight in Entertainment Weekly, Liz Cheney strangely not distancing herself from the Birthers, and an actual reason to use the hash tag #swineflu