Results for: be the change
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women of History Who Were Obsessed with Their Dogs, Part 4
We’re back for a barely conceivable fourth installment looking at the big dogs, little dogs and doggy dogs of more lesbian and bisexual women of history who were obsessed with them!
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6 Queer Women Literally Saving the World Through Environmental Justice
To solve today’s environmental issues, we need new voices, preferably voices from different parts of the population than we’ve heard from in years past. Let’s hear from some queer women rocking environmental justice.
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16 Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Instagram Accounts to Introduce You to Our Herstory
I want to devour everything that came before us so we can continue to grow better, brighter, louder, closer. These Instagram accounts are a great place to start.
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women of History Who Were Obsessed With Their Dogs, Part 3
Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Naomi “Micky” Jacob, Elsie de Wolfe and Elisabeth Marbury — and their puppers!
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18 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Made Really Great Art For You
These are the ladies who made kickass sculptures, movies, music, children’s books, regular grown-up-books and, of course, wrote fabulous, sick, neurotic, tortured love poems to one another.
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10 Badass Disabled Women You Should Know About
Disabled people deserve to know, from our school days, that we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs.
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38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark
AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.
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24 Very Gay Excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Letters with Lorena Hickok
“Most clearly I remember your eyes with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips.”
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12 Women They Didn’t Tell You Were Queer In History Class
Really unclear why we didn’t spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her girlfriend.
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Rebel Girls: 5 Women Who Organized Across Movements to Make Feminist Herstory
From labor rights to environmental justice, these women organized with gender in mind outside of the feminist movement.
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10 First-Ever Lesbian Characters On American TV: Killers, Tramps, Thieves and Therapists
From lesbian gangs killing old ladies in a nursing home to actresses with Mommy issues to inspirational schoolteachers, these are ten of the first-ever lesbian characters on American primetime television, 1961-1977.
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Rebel Girls: 10 Feminist Gal Pals Who Made This World a More Awesome Place Together
As a follow-up to the time I used “gal pals” sarcastically and taught you all about the queer suffragists, and in honor of Gal Pal Week, this week’s Rebel Girls lesson is going to be about good, old-fashioned friendship.
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10 Most Unstoppable Women Ever
Stories of ten incredible women who have overcome everything from racism to gravity to frostbite in order to push us all forward.
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100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost
This epic megapost is your glorious opportunity to meet more than 100 amazing black LGBT women who’ve made their mark over the last 150 years.
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More Pride, Less Prejudice: 5 More Bitches for the Banknotes
Here are some women – queer, feminist, or courageous long before either of those terms was invented – whose names ought to be common currency, and on it too.
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25 Pictures Of The Lesbian Internet, 1997-2007
Once upon a time in a land far far away, lesbians found the internet and covered it with rainbows!
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Top 10 Most Amazing Things That Happened Because Hillary Clinton Was Secretary of State
9. The Playing Of Funky Music By White Boys and Other Humans Specifically For Hillary Clinton’s Grooves and Enjoyment
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15 Awesomely Named Yet Totally Defunct Lesbian Bars Of America
Whatever happened to the way we used to be, Meow Mix and Mother’s Brew, Push and Wetherbee’s?
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28 Books About Gay Geography That’ll Take You On Journeys Through Time and Place
If you like lesbian history as much as I do, then you’ll love all these books about queer life in various towns, states, cities and countries. Your input is welcome!
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10 Great Places to Meet Lesbians If You Have a Time Machine
If you’re really sick of the lesbian scene where you live, why not build a time machine and go back to when everyone hated us? Here are some excellent places to meet ladies from history.