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Autostraddle Before the Tipping Point: A Trip Through the Archive
This year for Trans Awareness Week, I wanted us to focus on recent trans history. Autostraddle itself is part of that history.
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Escaping Eden: Finding Lilith in Queerness
Lilith after all has become a sign of every socially unacceptable aspect of women, including and especially our sexuality.
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Hey Brits, it’s LGBT History Month! Here Are the Best Events to Check Out
Your guide to LGBT History Month events that don’t suck.
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The Complete History of Transgender Characters in American Comic Books
The most comprehensive and expansive look at trans representation in American comics you’re likely to find.
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More Than Words: Pride Rock(s)
Why are our parades always in the summer? Because Pride goeth before a fall! Thank you, thank you.
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Read a F*cking Book: “Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America”
If I had the power to declare this the official book of Herstory Month, I would. But I don’t have that power. Only you have that power. And you should read this book!
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The Ladies Of Llangollen: Runaway Romantics In 18th Century Ireland
The story of two women who escaped their homes in the middle of the night, lived in a castle and loved each other for over 50 years.
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Queering The Library: Collecting Downtown, Riot Grrrl, Feminism & You
Vanessa chats with Marvin J. Taylor about Kathleen Hanna, Kathy Acker, lesbian comics, secret lesbians of early Hollywood and other fascinating secrets uncovered at Fales.
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The Lesbian Herstory Archives: A Constant Affirmation That You Exist
“I wish that people thought of it as a place to come on a Saturday afternoon, because it is important and it’s special. It’s not just about the things. It’s about having this home.”
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Ladies of Note: A Brief History of Women Composers, Queer and Otherwise
You know about Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but what about the women who wrote classical music?
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Herstory Spotlight: Vita Sackville-West Wrote Words, Wooed Women, Wanted Woolf
On the lady who wrote this to Virginia Woolf – “You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
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The Gay 2000s: Twenty Decade-Defining Lesbian Happenings
Guess what, another decade is over! Here’s a retrospective on the best of times and worst of times in the 00’s for the queers.
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The Lesbian Avengers – Time to Seize the Power & Be the Bomb You Throw!
“In my years with the Minneapolis Lesbian Avengers, we defaced anti-choice billboards, participated in visibility actions at schools, constructed a giant paper machè bomb piñata filled with lube and dental dams, helped plan the first of many Dyke Marches, designed and built a boat out of milk cartons for the Aquatennial Milk Carton Boat Race (dubbed The “Lez Boat” and pronounced with a hard “z” – no mystery there) and ate fire on countless occasions.”
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The Autostraddle Roundtable: Is there a Lesbian Generation Gap?
“To many young gay people, the passage of Prop 8 was shocking but not alarming,” writes Mark Harris in New York Magazine’s “The Gay Generation Gap,” published two weeks ago in the magazine’s special Pride Week Section. Harris continues: “It has jolted them into action, but one suspects it’s out of a Milk-fed belief that identity-politics activism can be ennobling and cool.” Ouch! One suspects that one is being unfair to us! One suspects that if we’ve managed to make activism “cool,” then that’s a BIG SCORE! — but wait. Before you get too excited (as we did), there’s no need to be offended ’cause this shit ain’t about you, woman! … so we decided to ask ourselves: Is there a Lesbian Generation Gap?” Special roundtable participants include Grace Chu of Grace the Spot, Haviland Stillwell and Riese’s Mom!