Results for: queer parenting
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Georgia’s Abortion Ban Can’t Be Defeated Without Queer and Trans Black Women and Femmes
Queer and trans Black women and femmes have the blueprint to defeat Georgia’s abortion ban. Alyssa Milano… does not.
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Finding Roots Without Hiding My Rainbow
“We don’t talk about our roots as they relate to the heaviness of humid air recycled through our generations on swampy plantations. My family has never talked about it with me, at least. It feels like a small betrayal, choosing to go south when we were given a new chance in the West.”
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VIDEO: “New Deep South” Shows Adorable Mississippi Lesbian Couple Using Instagram To Adopt
The first episode of “New Deep South,” a webseries created by women-founded new media startup “The Front,” kicked off with the story of a young couple ready to get married and have a baby, against all odds.
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Aquí Estamos: Organizing the First QPOC Conference in the Rio Grande Valley
Aquí Estamos is Spanish for “we’re here.” The first ever QPOC conference in the RGV is letting everyone know just that — we’re here and we’ll be here to organize and fight against the social and political factors that affect us.
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Please Go Watch “The L Word Mississippi: Hate The Sin”
I have to come to expect that kind of technicolor Sapphic unreality in all of my Chaiken programming, which is exactly why I did not expect L Word Mississippi: Hate The Sin. And I’m glad I didn’t, because this is a documentary worth seeing on its own terms.
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Read A F*cking Book: Sometimes Being Bad Is Good In “Southern Sin”
“Set in the land of deep-fried Christian morality, a natural tension is created in each one of the anthology’s 23 stories, making for a mostly sexy, sometimes terrifying, but always exceptionally-crafted read.”
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Of A Swamp Witch And A Rural Queer
“It’s so easy to yearn and ache for people to fill the space surrounding you, but it’s so difficult to find those who can do so in a way that doesn’t immediately consume all your hard-won oxygen and freedom.”
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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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Also.Also.Also: Dolores Huerta Stands Up for Gay Marriage and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Familia es Familia, unless you’re in the Salvation Army. Or Louisiana.
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Making Community Out of Isolation by Learning Furious Self-Creation
“There are no lesbian/queer woman-centric spaces in our city or on LSU’s campus. This mixed workshop helped the queer women at the workshop think about the role of discomfort in their lives. “
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Turning the Tide: How Activism to Protect Queer Students and Communities Works
How activists in Louisiana use everything from direct action to meetings with senators to try to pass laws that would protect queer and trans* students from bullying, queer and trans* employees from discrimination, and more. This is how your legal progress sausage is made.
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Going Down (South): Midnight in the Garden of Marriage Equality and Hate Crimes Laws
Georgia’s got a hot new lesbian in her legislature and she’s at the helm of some pretty progressive policies.
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Going Down (South): Home Is Where The (Queer) Heart Is
What can we stand to learn from a self-described ‘misfit’ living in rural Louisiana in the 1950s?
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Queer Girl City Guide: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“Carolina girls are the best in the world.”
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The Ones We Left Behind: On Being An Ally To Small Town Queers
“If you’re reading this and are currently in love with a tiny place that hasn’t loved you back yet, I want you to know that this is okay.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Atlanta, Georgia
“The city boasts one of the largest LGBTQ populations in the U.S., and there are more and more resources and opportunities for LBT ladies in the “A.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: There’s No Place Like NOLA
Hey there, Dawlin’!
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Texas Is Not the Only State: Confessions of a Lesbian Exile in New York
“I kept MapQuest directions to Albuquerque in the glove compartment of my car, just in case I needed to run away. When I graduated, I moved to upstate New York for college.”
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Mary Gray Knows What it Feels Like For Gay Kids in Rural America
“I’m not less gay when I take the rainbow sticker off my car. I just know that if I have that in my car, I’m going to piss off people who are already angry at me.”