Results for: the real l word
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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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The Comment Awards Are Eating Cheese and Contemplating Existence
“Not my gay ass thinking that by caroling I thought you meant… watching Carol?”
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I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong
“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”
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Long Live (Heather’s Version)
This is my last week at Autostraddle. I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.
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Being or Becoming Real
“I felt disconnected from my art because I had part time and full time jobs that took up most of my time in the world. I wrote on scraps of paper during lunch breaks and tried, at the end of the day, to have an hour or so of “creative time” for myself.”
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Ten Things I’ve Learned In My Four Years at Autostraddle
“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”
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The Comment Awards Are Resting Uneasily on the Bisexual Pride Sofa
Can you hold me like a baby spider?
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The Comment Awards Are Ranking Fanfic Tropes
I read the headline and whispered to myself: “there is only one bed!!!“
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The Comment Awards Are Going Back to High School
“Just surround yourself with dogs and keep chanting, ‘I was a lesbian in 1974.'”
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Get In Here and Meet Kylo Freeman: For Them’s Founder and Autostraddle’s New CEO
“I’m used to working with an all-queer team that has amazing creative ideas that are a little bit out of the box, so it feels like a perfect fit from my end.”
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The Comment Awards Are Having the Nicest Gay
“Say you were on a panel and the question came up. How would you explain it to Brie?”
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How Do You Scale a Personality Cult?
We do lose something when dedicated queer spaces like Into, Girlfriends and SheWired shutter or AfterEllen goes full TERF, but we also lose something when The Awl, The Hairpin and The Toast do. These were places where writers were free to experiment, to be weird, to make writer-first content that isn’t easily monetizable.
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“Go On a Real Date, With a Real Gay Woman” A Letter On Finding Queer Community from Heather Hogan
1. Come out to my family. 2. Buy a plane ticket anywhere.
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Don’t Look Down: It’s Like Wile E. Coyote Running Off a Cliff
Not to be one of those divorced people who makes everything about their divorce!, but getting divorced will really teach you that nothing about making something “real” or deciding you’re all in makes it any more secure.
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Letter From the Editor: Fresh Vision for Autostraddle
The heart of my new vision for Autostraddle is pretty simple: make more space for lesbians and queer people — especially people of color — to be our entire selves and to be known for the multi-dimensional ways we move in the world. We are the ultimate authority on our culture, who we are and how we live. This is a home for us.
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Get These Limited Edition Fundraiser Perks While You Can!
Look at all the cool things you could buy during our last fundraiser of 2020! Get your holigay shopping done early! Tell a friend!
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One Last Letter From This Editor
I’ve had three full-time jobs for this company for 11 years and today I’m taking the triumphant step of knocking that down to two!
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The Comment Awards Just Really Love Bees
“I made a little poem. ‘Rebecca and Tess? YES.'”
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The Autostraddle Yearbook: A Decade Of Gay Work
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives…
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The Comment Awards Are Nailing A Ring To My Door
“Della Champagne the gender-yeeting tarantula sounds like a queer icon, tbh.”