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In Conversation With Sarah Schulman: “They’re Being Taught That Control Is Freedom”
“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”
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Mara Wilson Knows Your First Crush Was Miss Honey: The Autostraddle Interview
“Being Queer is not about who you’re with, it’s about who you are.”
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Trauma Queen: An Autostraddle Book Review and Interview
Trauma Queen, the new memoir by Lovemme Corazon, is a hard read but equally hard to put down. There are many, many people who will find a familiar history in this book, and the author hopes that will be a jumping off point for healing and discussions.
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Jasika Nicole Will Teach You Embroidery and Social Justice: The Autostraddle Interview
“I think you can put so many people of color on TV shows, but until there are more people of color who are making those decisions to put those actors and actresses in those roles, we’re not quite at that point yet. We need more Shonda Rhimes in our lives.”
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Autostraddle Book Club: Emily Answers Your “Cameron Post” Questions and We Throw A Feelings-Fest
emily m. danforth answers 36 of your questions about “Cameron Post” and then we’re all gonna talk about the book!
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Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with the Coquette On Getting Your Sh*t Together
“I’ve been doing this shit for half a damn decade, and I honestly couldn’t tell you how any of it happened.”
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Almost Famous: Mary Lambert
You’ve already fallen in love with Mary Lambert’s voice, you just may not know it — she’s the female part on “Same Love,” the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis anthem for same sex marriage that we all fell in love with last year.
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Jenny Owen Youngs Is Super Gay: The Autostraddle Interview
Jenny Owen Youngs just officially came out on EveryoneIsGay.com!
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Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with Eileen Myles
“Recently I wrote a poem on the notebook on my iPhone on the subway platform. I like to move around.”
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Malinda Lo and Behold: The Autostraddle Interview
Malinda Lo spoke with Autostraddle about her new book Adaptation, diversity in YA, gay girls making out, and how much she loves us (spoiler alert: a lot).
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Emma and Nicola Wrote A Novel About Britney Spears: The Autostraddle Interview
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.
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Jewelle Gomez, Lesbian Trailblazer: The Autostraddle Interview
“There was a great heyday in the 80’s in which I felt like you could publish anything, you could say anything – any of the initials, L, G, B, or T.”
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Sally Kohn, Badass Extraordinaire, Gays Up Fox News And Believes In You
A self-proclaimed “Professional Gay” and the woman behind the provocative essay rebuffing Paul Ryan’s RNC speech, Sally Kohn also happens to be the most optimistic person we’ve ever spoken to about politics.
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Lori Lindsey, USWNT Dark Horse: The Autostraddle Coming Out Interview
The lesbian USWNT player opens up about the Olympics, the future of women’s soccer, her bff Megan Rapinoe and coming out at Applebee’s.
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Anna Anthropy: Queering Video Games One Pixel at a Time
“Anthropy proves to us that video games can tell our stories as queer and trans* women. They can vent our frustrations in ways other people can experience. They can help us to communicate the things we go through in an unprecedented, interactive way.”
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Queer Texas Rep. Mary Gonzalez Is Hope and Action and The Coolest Politician Ever
“We never ask young people what they are willing to sacrifice to make the world better and that’s one of the biggest problems in this country.”
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Charlotte Bunch Is Important: The Autostraddle Interview
“I mean, we would not have violence against women or any issues of women’s rights on the agenda if we had waited for the human rights boys to say it was time.”
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Evil Cylon Somer Bingham Infiltrates The Real L Word: The Autostraddle Interview
“Get ready to do meta-reality somersaults about sci fi, chihuahua tossing, and Russian literature.”
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Heather Peace Gets Honest: The Autostraddle Interview
Lip Service actor and musician Heather Peace opens up about everything from her new album, Fairytales, to how it felt to take DS Murray down to rock bottom.
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Krisily Kennedy Likes Girls: The Autostraddle Interview
It all started when Krisily met a girl at a dog park who turned out to be an actress with a job on a television show where she played a character named “Shane.”