Results for: be the change
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The Best Breakup Advice You’ll Ever Get
“The world is supposed to feel as though it is ending and you are supposed to know only in the most dormant recesses of the backmost corner of your soul that it will not be like this forever.”
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Your Completely Queer Guide To Horoscope Hookups
Welcome to the most in-depth amazing massive guide to queer-girl zodiac horoscope compatibility anywhere in the entire universe. “What’s your sign?” is a totally valid pick-up line, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.
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How to Have Lesbian Sex For the First Time
This is how we do it, it’s Sunday night and I’m feeling right, the party is here on the Lez Side.
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The Ones We Left Behind: On Being An Ally To Small Town Queers
“If you’re reading this and are currently in love with a tiny place that hasn’t loved you back yet, I want you to know that this is okay.”
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The (Over)Thinker: On How To Be A Human With Another Human
I wrote a letter to myself about over thinking in a relationship. Maybe I wrote this letter to you as well.
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Femmes: Beyond Lipstick (and Heels and Dresses)
Sometimes you just want a role model.
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Family Business: How To Break Up With Your Ex’s Family, Too
You were never just dating a cute woman. You were dating a cute woman who is also someone’s daughter, granddaughter, bubeleh, mija, etc.
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5 Tips On Dating a Girl Who Is Only Kinda Sorta Maybe Out To Her Family And Friends
“Give her time, give her love and support and when she’s ready to whack the rainbow flag bumper sticker on her car, then she will.”
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Mind The (Age) Gap: How to Do a May/December Lesbian Relationship
May-December (or even May-October) romances can present occasional challenges, they can also be awesome.
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You Need Help: Your College Roommates Are Homophobic Assholes
What if you get to college and your roommates are really homophobic?
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About My Sexual Orientation And Were(n’t) Afraid To Ask
The eyes are all asking are you in, or are you out?
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So You’re Gay and Your Friends Are Straight, Now What?
So let’s say all your friends are straight and they’re totally okay with you being gay but also sometimes say the most irritating things ever? A conversation on how/when to deal.
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The Lesbian Insider’s Guide to 40 LGBT-Friendly College Campuses
Queer girls from 40 different schools give you the uncensored scoop on what it feels like for a gay lady on their campus — from hookup culture to dyke parties to activism and academics.
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Trans Etiquette 101: No Offense, But That’s Offensive
“So let’s say you are a non-trans person and you are with someone who is out about being trans and is knowingly open to questions. You have some things you want to ask. Here are some guidelines to follow.”
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Don’t Want To Be Part of the Problem: A Field Guide to Airborne Homophobia
Is it possible to be a radical queer feminist and still overhear conversations, maintain friendships and interact in public with unradical non-queers, without screaming at everyone or compromising your identity? A case study.
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Judith Butler 101: One Is Not Born a Queer Theorist, One Becomes One
Did you wake up today feeling a little too sure that you understood the relationship between sex and gender? No fear, Autostraddle is here! Guest writer Julia is here to learn you all about Judith Butler, and to make you feel smarter than you have all day.
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How to Date Girls: 10 Simple Rules for Properly Courting a Lesbian
Have you gotten over the giant hurdle of learning how to meet people/women? Are you now faced with the enormous task of convincing those people/women to stick around — properly? Lesbians have failed at romance long enough, it’s time you learn how to do it up right. We’ve got a post for that!
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Feminism 101: Read Books, Become a Better Womyn
Looking for a good book on feminism? How about 70 of them? We’ve compiled a list of some of the most influential, controversial and must-read feminist titles from the past 200+ years. That’s a lot of books! You should probably get started.
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Lesbian Safe Sex 101: The Doctor Is In (Also, the Cartoonist)
It’s hard out there for a sexually active lesbo — how do you get the safe sex info you need when you’re afraid of the gyno and lesbians are ignored in sex ed? WELL WE’VE GOT A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE. Also; a cartoonist. Really you have to see the cartoons.
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Lesbian Bromance is Here
Two lesbians walk into a gay bar. One of them has to pee. The ladies room is occupied. What happens next will change their lives — and the world — forever. KC Danger on the birth of Lesbian Bromance.