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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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Welcome Our New Director of Brand Partnerships, Anya Richkind!
I’m so excited to be here. Let’s build Autostraddle’s financial future into something stronger, steadier, and more exciting than we’ve ever imagined!
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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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Is the Resurgence of Feminist Bookstores in the South a Moment or a Movement?
Visit five feminist bookstores across the south east that are creating community building and political organizing space as well as curating feminist literature written by authors from different backgrounds holding often marginalized identities.
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Queered & Careered: Manifestation Journaling (Or Using Woo-Woo Talk to Claim the Life You Want)
During this challenging time, use your journal to throw your dreams into space. Imagine what could be and use that energy to fuel your long days.
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Queered & Careered: 4 Questions to Build Up Your Brand While We’re at Home
Everyone builds or maintains their brand every time they walk into a room. The issue is that right now we’re walking into less and less rooms.
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Queered & Careered: Practice Career Cocooning
Inspired by a caterpillar, cocooning describes a time when you are forced to wait and prepare for the transformation that is taking place inside you. Thanks to Covid-19, many of us are dealing with career cocoons right now. Here’s how to cope.
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Queered & Careered: Career Anxiety
We’re concerned about our health during this pandemic, and for many of us, this stress is further exacerbated by job and financial instability. It’s time to dive into ways we can combat career anxiety when it inevitably comes our way.
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Queered & Careered: Five Unconventional Ways to Honor Yourself at Work
Honoring yourself is about creating fun, rejuvenating, life affirming practices that help you stay grounded and practice self-compassion. They should join you in life, and in work.
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Queered & Careered: Tackling the Monster of Career-Envy
‪Jealousy will always be there. There will always be someone that you or society perceives to be smarter, stronger, or more competent than you. We must get curious about our jealousy – become friends with it, and then tell it to be productive or get going.‬
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Queered & Careered: 10 Tips on Working From Home in the Era of Social Distancing
Since working from home is a part of the national call to practice social distancing, many of us are also navigating loneliness, restlessness, and anxiety. Here are a few tips that can help you on your journey.
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Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
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50 Blogs and Books and Podcasts That Inspire Queer Entrepreneurs
The internet is full of resources to help you start and run your business. These are some of our faves!
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“Good Company” Is the Best Magazine a Queer Aspirant Could Ever Dream Of
“Good Company,” a new magazine from Design*Sponge’s Grace Bonney, is a radically diverse incredible new project you should support ALSO I JUST SO HAPPEN TO BE FEATURED IN ONE OF THE ARTICLES.
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PERSONALS App Brings an Old School Dyke Dating Format Into a Hot New Future, Thanks Instagram
Your favorite queer Instagram dating account has changed its name to be more inclusive, is creating an app just for you, and is hosting a party in NYC to kickoff its crowdfunding efforts Wednesday night, June 13! Read our interview with creator Kelly Rakowski for all the hot details!
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Meet Me at Cuties: The Queer-Owned LA Coffee Bar that Puts Community First
I sat down with Cuties founders Iris and Virginia to talk about finding community, running a commercial space, and how to hold community members accountable.
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Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers
“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”
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Emilie Wapnick’s How To Be Everything
Why pick between your passions when you can design a life based on ALL of them?
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Follow Your Arrow: “Great British Bake Off” Star Ruby Tandoh Shares Her Love of Food
“I wish there were more LGBTQ food writers, though — it can be a pretty stiflingly traditional (read: heteronormative, and very white) world. Find a network of like-minded queer women to work with, seek advice from and befriend! We gotta stick together.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Queer Hairdresser Klara Vanova on Trust and Community
In this month’s Follow Your Arrow, Klara shares the story of her gender-neutral barbershop business, how she made the leap from office-worker to sole-trader, and the importance of building trust in the community she serves.