Results for: love is a lie
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How to Finger Your Partner When You Have Chronic Pain in Your Hands
A few minor adjustments can make fingering easier, even when chronic pain is cramping your style.
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This Thanksgiving, I’m Moving to Warmer Weather in an Attempt To Survive
As I write this, nearly 70,000 new cases were reported yesterday, and hospitalizations are increasing. Health officials have started to warn of a coming surge in the winter, just as we’ve seen the last two winters.
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12 Books to Read to Be a Better Ally to Disabled People This Disability Pride Month
This list will make you laugh out loud, bring you to tears, make you question things you believed to be true, and even make you want to blast Demi Lovato.
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Not Grateful Enough
“Thank you for pushing me down a ramp so quickly that I slammed into a wall.”
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As a Black, Fat, Disabled Person in Love, My Monogamy Feels Radical
For me, navigating polyamorous dynamics with white people is inherently taxing and painful as a Black person.
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The Soft Butch That Couldn’t (Or: I Got COVID-19 in March 2020 and Never Got Better)
Is a soft butch a soft butch if she can barely hold even herself together? Is a soft butch a soft butch without her swagger?
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Asshole, Autistic and Other A-Words of My Love Life
Something was deeply wrong with me, something shameful. Turns out, the truth is more complicated.
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It Should Always Include Lube: Talking with A. Andrews About “A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex & Disability”
A. Andrews’ comic A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability is a well-written, thoughtful, and enjoyable guide that I strongly recommend to all disabled and able-bodied people alike
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Future Present: Talking with Johanna Hedva About the Luxury of Our Needs
Why do we talk about care as a scarcity model? How do you live with ~the void~? How do we adjust to changing language for identity and in movements? Is America going to end in 2024? All this and more!
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 407: Lesson Number One With Lianna Carrera!
Get your ass into The Ask and Tell Helicopter, it’s time to get schooled about lezzing out!
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Sex & Accessibility 101: How to Have Super Hot Sex with or as a Disabled Person
Disabled people have sex. Trust me, I know.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Love Is Showing Up
For the final installment of Queer Crip Love Fest, we turn the cute up to 11.
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What I Wish I’d Learned in Sex Ed
Your curriculum isn’t “one size fits all” if “all” means “nondisabled straight people.”
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Parenting at the Intersections
“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”
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“I’m Not Done Living My Damn Life Yet”: Disabled Queer People Speak Out on the American Health Care Act
“It’s a harsh reality that I will be priced out of my own life at this point if the AHCA gets passed and, quite frankly, I’m not done living my damn life yet.”
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7 Queer Disabled Folks On Why Air Travel Is Kind of a Nightmare
“The ADA tends to disintegrate in the hands of airlines and their staff, especially for POC and QTPOC, and it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side.”
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Why I’ve Decided to Let Myself Get Angry (Despite What Ableism Taught Me)
“I’m a Nice Person — I have one of those irrepressibly pleasant faces that makes people want to sit next to me on public transportation — but I can be nice and angry, I can be smart and angry, and I can be worth listening to and angry.”
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“Me Before You” Is the Most Terrifying Horror Film of 2016
Me Before You isn’t half-baked schlock that crumbles under the weight of its own unconscionable ignorance. No — instead, director Thea Sharrock and writer Jojo Moyes gave us a bio-horror masterpiece about a deadly outbreak of Ableism in small-town Wales. With Halloween upon us, it’s time their efforts got the recognition they deserve.
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Lessons For Our Future From the Disability Intersectionality Summit
Listen as you build your movements, clarify your priorities, and fight for that future so many of us thought was already here.
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Telling Myself the Truth: 5 Strategies for Fighting Internalized Ableism
“…it’s still completely acceptable for disabled people to hate ourselves.”