Results for: be the change
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85 LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses and Queer Shops To Support This Holiday Season!
With so many LGBTQ+ owned shops out there it’s gonna be a joy to put money back into your community this holiday season!
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We Need a Three Day Work Week
The time has come for us to abandon ideas of “normal” and imagine new worlds. What if we also imagined less time at work? What if every weekend was a four-day weekend? If I haven’t convinced you yet, here’s 22 reasons why.
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I Tested And Rated 8 Natural Deodorants So You Don’t Have To
Trust me — when you’re making the somewhat smelly transition to the natural deodorant life, social distancing will be your best friend. If you need a push to get started, I tested and rated natural deodorants to help you make your selection.
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What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting: 6 Parenting Books That Smash The Patriarchy
Unfortunately, most parenting books weren’t written with queer moms, trans dads, non-binary parents and gestational carriers, and families that look like ours in mind.
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5 Recipes to Use Up Your Holiday Leftovers
It’s good to be mindful and creative in the kitchen and make sure food ends up warming bellies and hearts, not rotting in a landfill. If you’ve got leftovers and some time on your hands this weekend I implore you to give them a makeover with one of these incredible recipes!
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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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25 of Your Most Alarming Travel Nightmare Stories
You shared some very thrilling stories with us on our recent Queer Travel Survey. Here are highlights of your adventures!
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Six Tips for Dealing with Your Difficult Family Members Over the Holidays
I’m sharing tips and techniques that have been useful to me in the face of conflict for those of you who’ll need to advocate for yourselves in difficult conversations and fight the good fight this holiday season. We can do this. Hopefully one day we won’t have to.
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The Top 11 Gayest Christmas Songs
Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-#dingdong-ding!
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5 Ways To Fight Back Against Seasonal Affective Disorder
I’ve been dealing with SAD all my adult life, and especially since I moved to the northeast where daylight lasts about as long as my lunch break from November to March. I’ve learned a lot about coping, and about making things easier on myself by noticing and addressing my symptoms before I’m in the midst of a full-blown depressive spiral. SAD isn’t fixable for me, but here’s how I’ve learned to fight back against it.
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7 Bar Games To Make Your Holigays Merry and Bright!
Bookmark this list on your phone, send it to your friends in your group text. Be the hero who saves The Holigays! (Or at least, be the hero who kicks your party up a notch!)
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Sweaty All The Time: 11 Things That Didn’t Cure My Hyperhidrosis and the One Thing That Did
Let’s talk about (excessive) sweat, baby.
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6 Strategies For Reluctantly Talking to Men in Your Male-Dominated Workplace
Follow my advice and you’ll be well on your way to making apolitical small talk, scoring points for “likeability,” and building career-necessary rapport with 75+% of male coworkers!
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50 Ways to Deal with the Aftereffects of Trauma
“The day begins when you say it does: I’m not talking about work. I’m talking about the soul.”
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10 Love Poems by Queer Poets for Your Queer Valentine’s Day
Have some love poems by queer & lesbian poets along with your Hallmark cards and chocolates.
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The Top 11 All-Natural Things That Help Me Calm The F*ck Down
“I’ve got anxiety, and lots of it. When my grandma sends me a Facebook message asking me to call home, I know everyone I love is dead. I know at least three serial killers live under my bed.”
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10 Ways Educators Can Make Schools Safer for LGBT Youth
We’re participating in GLSEN’s Ally Week and talking about how K-12 educators can become better allies to the LGBT youth in their schools.
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Top 8 Weirdo Things I Ate During Passover
“I couldn’t read the ingredient list but I’m pretty sure it was kosher. I ate it on matzah, duh.”
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45 Valentine’s Day Snacks, Desserts and Drinks for Your Hungry Little Heart
You’ve never seen so many heart shaped foods in your whole entire life.
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The ABC’s of Coping With SAD and The Bitter Reality of Winter
It’s getting colder and colder by the day, and I cannot help but remember how helplessly sad I was last time around. This time, I’m gonna try to nip it in the bud. Here are some ways to stave off your cold weather blues.