Results for: be the change
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How To Grow Up Without Being Invited
The problem with birthdays, and graduations, is that endings and beginnings are so often the same thing. What we’re really celebrating is the motion, the opposite of stagnating, the skill of turning your head and blinking your eyes to see things in a new light, even if your feet and heart feel heavy and the landscape hasn’t changed.
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Curls That Dance Under Any Light: Rediscovering My Queer Hair in India
I’m not sure I am any of the things that the aunties here tell me I am: Good. Hindu. Girl. I’m not sure about a lot of things these days. But I’ve found a way to care for myself that keeps me alive.
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9 Tips for Surviving Grad School With Mind and Body Intact
It’s easy to get caught up in how difficult grad school is, and to use that difficulty as an excuse to slack off on taking care of yourself, but the skills you build now will follow you into your career. It’s more important than ever to really make time and space for YOU, and I don’t just mean bubble baths.
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Y’All Need Help #25: Spring Cleaning Part 4
Did someone say they needed me to answer 19 questions in one post?? No, they did not, but I did it anyway!!
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All of the Ultimate Back-To-School Advice for College-Bound Queers
There is literally no incorrect way to do college and Autostraddle staff are the proof.
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Claire’s College Lesbianage: Change is Afoot… Er, Aknee
“It took about two weeks from the time that I tore my ACL during rugby practice to know for sure that it was torn, and about twenty minutes after that to change all of my summer plans.”
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The State of Trans Women and the Seven Sisters: Mount Holyoke Opens Its Doors, Smith and The Rest Drag Heels
Most of the elite Seven Sisters colleges still use convoluted language to exclude trans women from their campuses. Mt Holyoke has bucked the trend, but the rest are still only studying the issue.
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Completing Your Motherf*ckin’ Dissertation In A Week: The Kit
THINK OF HOW GOOD IT’LL FEEL TO RETURN ALL THE LIBRARY BOOKS.
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Michigan Affirmative Action Ban Upheld, Sotomayor Smacks It Down In 58 pages
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Michigan state ban on the use of race as a factor in admissions to state universities, allowing voters to decide the matter on a state-by-state level.
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Spilling the Sweet Tea on Queer Organizing in the Deep South
We got chills and teary eyes in the first session when leaders from the southern based LGBTQ advocacy organizations we invited told us simply that we didn’t have to leave the south. I can’t remember ever having heard anyone tell me that so plainly before.
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Kelsey’s College Lesbianage: They Assume I Know What I’m Doing
I can’t wait to go back to Bryn Mawr, but I’m trying to make the most of these months away and, so far, I think I’m doing pretty well.
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Teach Me Your Ways: The Teachers Who Helped Make Us Queer
Many of us were lucky enough to have teachers who didn’t make us queer as such, but they did help make it a little easier on us, sometimes even before we knew it about ourselves. Here’s to them.
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Nita’s College Lesbianage: I’m Gonna Be Alright
“It was the last day of my last semester of my first year of college, and I was crying because I’d failed. I wasn’t going to continue in the interpreting degree.”
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7 Graduation Happenings That Are Surprisingly Relevant To Your Queer Culture
We’re going meta and talking about what everyone’s talking about at commencement ceremonies.
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Kate’s College Lesbianage: School’s (Not) Out For Summer!
It might be June, but Kate’s still in school – in England! She’s spending her rainy summer days memorizing Shakespeare and sorting through ancient books.
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Kelsey’s College Lesbianage: Queer Talk On Being Straight At Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr’s pocket of queer sunshine doesn’t rain on anybody’s hetero parade.
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College Lesbianage Class of 2016: Out Like a Lion
The lesbianagettes have made it to Spring break and are finally in the home stretch. Let’s check in to see how they handled exams and what they’re doing to relax.
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Columbia Students Steal Nutella And The NYT Thinks It’s The Onion
In which Columbia students “steal” Nutella, the NYT cracks us up, Vanessa brainstorms Nutella-themed band names and we ask you what food you most wish you could steal from an American university’s dining hall in a soup container or other receptacle.
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College Lesbianage Class of 2016: Winter Wunderkinds
This month’s update finds our Lesbianagelings finishing up their finals and heading back to their homelands. What have they learned about the world and themselves during this first semester of college?
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Notre Dame’s Gay Students Asked to Be Chaste, Because Catholicism
Notre Dame has approved an LGBT student organization and the club must preach chastity for LGBTQ students. Which makes me think maybe we should take our gay money elsewhere.