Results for: Feel good
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“I Needed To Create Something To Save Myself… That’s What I’ve Done”
“Ain’t nobody trying to slow down! Life is fun. Keep doing it.”
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Straddler On The Mountain: Mel
Mel won the Kipper Clothiers campership this time around, and you’ll know why when you see her amazing style. A third-time camper and longtime reader, she talks about Toronto, working at a hotel, her Filipino family, and (duh) A-Camp.
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Straddler On The Mountain: Brooklyn
Say hi to Brooklyn – she’s a campership winner Texan trans* girl who spoke openly and honestly about her unsupportive family, being homeless and the importance of having a loving community to fall back on.
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“Mother Has Lived, What Can I Say?”
DonnaSue Johnson describes herself as a “big, black, beautiful, Bohemian, bougie, Buddhist butch.”
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“I Don’t Want To Be Forgotten”
“So I just accepted the fact that I truly was gay. I had to be gay. That was my acceptance of myself. I made an announcement in my own head that I was a gay woman.”
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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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“I Didn’t Know Trans Men Existed Until I Saw Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars”
This year, the Autostraddle team decided to focus our Black History Month coverage on the Black elders who are still here and still doing the work. We welcome our readers to celebrate these members of the Black LGBTQ+ community with us.
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GIVEAWAY: Snag a Copy of Grace Bonney’s New Book, “In the Company of Women!”
Grace Bonney, designer extraordinaire, has a gift for you: In the Company of Women, a coffee table collection profiling a diverse range of creative women about their work. Comment on this post TODAY to win a copy!
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Rebel Girls: 20 Autostraddle Community Members Who Are Changing the World
Documentary films. Policy initiatives. Direct action. These 20 activists are doing it all to save the world — and they’re Autostraddle readers just like you!
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Dear Queer Diary: Two Journalers are Twice as Nice
Mary and Frances reveal the secrets of the diary-writing universe.
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Dear Queer Diary: Meet Abbie
Abbie has a collection of uni-ball roller pens and the coolest bangs south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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Dear Queer Diary: It’s Carolyne!
She sings opera, bakes cookies, and owns more than half a dozen journals. What more could we ask for?
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Straddler On The Street (Who Was Once on the Mountain): Chelsea Is Really Well-Dressed
I resurrected this incredible column to introduce everyone to Chelsea, a two-time A-Camper and this year’s Kippier Clothier Camper.
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Straddler On The Street: Lydia
Lydia is a queer femme who writes an acclaimed personal style blog, Style Is Style. She’s been featured in BUST and Rookie but this is the very first official interview where she’s talking about coming out and being queer! Also her style is AMAZING. Prepare to fall in love.
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Straddler On The Street: Abby
Abby was the winner of the A-Camp 4.0 Kreuzbach10 campership, and as you might expect from such a human, Abby is sweet, energetic, confident and dapper as all hell. We talked about Ghana, names, gender, telling stories, and A-Camp.
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Party of Five: Pizza Feminism Creator, Autostraddle’s Own Intern Liz
If you want to learn from the biggest brain living at the intersections of pizza and feminism, know this: she works here. Duh.
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Straddler On The Street: Vanessa
Straddler On The Street turns one year old today, so we captured Vanessa and insisted she let us interview her instead of vice versa like usual. The results are predictably full of floral print and feelings.
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Straddler On The Street: Connie
“I am 24 and my partner is in her fifties, and I really really want to talk about my experience in an age gap relationship.” We chatted with Connie, a first generation Asian American currently living in New Mexico, about this and more!
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Straddler On The Street: Rebecca
Rebecca is a 37 year old electrician currently living with her partner in Philadelphia. She spoke about being an LGBT person and a gender nonconformist working in the trades and being a contestant in the ACLU’s My Big, (Il)legal, Gay Wedding contest!
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Straddler On The Street: Jessica
Jessica has lived in London her whole life but currently attends Cambridge University where she studies English Literature. She spoke about Effing Dykes, intersectionality, mental health issues, and much more.