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Crafts & DIY Projects Queer Fashion

How To Own It: Tiny Lacy Ruffled Socks

Your ankles need attention. Ruffly, lacy attention.

Gabrielle Korn April 11, 2013 12 Comments
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Also.Also.Also: Heather Morris is Pregnant and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Don’t fire me for being fabulous.

Carmen April 10, 2013 13 Comments
Book Lists

23 Vintage Young Adult Novel Covers With Major Lesbian Subtext

Nobody was surprised to hear that Mallory hates boys (and gym).

Riese April 10, 2013 59 Comments
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France Wins A Thing: Gay Marriage for All for Real!

France gets gay married! And French Autostraddlers were there through it all!

Kristen April 10, 2013 31 Comments
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VIDEO: Adorable Gail Marquis And Audrey Smaltz Tell Their Love Story, Warm Your Heart

I want to be Gail Marquis and Audrey Smaltz when I grow up.

Hansen April 10, 2013 15 Comments
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Get Baked: White Bean Spring Salad

This salad looks really pretty and tastes really yummy, not to mention it’s really easy. Really.

Vanessa April 10, 2013 16 Comments
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Almost Famous: Dalice Malice

A queer trans* folk singer from Chicago and maybe now also the butchest femme you know.

Crystal April 10, 2013 3 Comments
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Trans and Schizophrenic: When Diagnosis Impacts Transition

If he had read my medical records he would have known that my first psychotic break was exacerbated by my fear that I would never be recognized as a woman.

Sam Ashkenas April 10, 2013 58 Comments
Gender

Trans Woman Denied Admission to Smith College: Why “Just Checking Female” is More Complicated Than it Sounds

Smith College’s inhospitality toward trans women ultimately threatens, rather than upholds, their institutional image as a women’s college.

Sarah Giovanniello April 9, 2013 45 Comments
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Get Baked Basics: Chicken Stock

Stock photography in its most basic sense.

bcw April 9, 2013 20 Comments
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Cats and Feminism and Cartoons! Wheeee!

Ali’s Team Pick: Feminism, cats and cartoons all in one happy place.

A.E. Osworth April 9, 2013 11 Comments
Life

Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with the Coquette On Getting Your Sh*t Together

“I’ve been doing this shit for half a damn decade, and I honestly couldn’t tell you how any of it happened.”

Carmen April 9, 2013 35 Comments
Community

15 Funny Things Rachel Said Recently

“five years from now when i’m living in a tree writing tracts about how monsanto is part of the illuminati cabal on recycled seventh-generation paper bags, you can pinpoint this as the moment it started.”

Riese April 9, 2013 47 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

Make A Thing: Embroidered Cards

Embroidering a birthday card will impress people but no one will actually know it actually takes zero crafting skill.

Hansen April 9, 2013 15 Comments
Politics + Activism

The Future’s Not Here Yet: Neither Gay Rights Movement Nor Feminism Has “Succeeded”

“Do u think part of the reason gay rights has moved forward while women’s rights backwards is b/c gay rights includes men’s rights?”

Rachel April 9, 2013 34 Comments
Geekery

RIP MSN Messenger

When someone saw you through puberty, coming out and university, you have to pay your respects. Goodbye dear friend.

Kristen April 8, 2013 46 Comments
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Guest Playlist: Kaki King’s Australia Mix

Kaki King made you a playlist. It’s a playlist made for you, by Kaki King. A Kaki King playlist.

Kaki King April 8, 2013 17 Comments
Love + Sex

VIDEO: Lesbian Proposes Dressed As Blaine Warbler, Glee-ful Musical Number and Adorableness Ensue

A bunch of cute girls dressed as prep school boys serenading a lady about to be proposed to by another lady? This is why same-sex marriage matters.

Riese April 8, 2013 40 Comments
Queer Fashion

Style Thief: How to Dress Like Bomb Girls’ Betty McRae

Betty McRae is the hottest Canadian bomb factory worker in all of TV Land. Let’s strip her down.

Lizz April 8, 2013 15 Comments
Community

Straddler On The Street: Maddy

Maddy is the president of Q, Barnard’s only queer student group, and now she’s running for president of the Student Government Association! Go Maddy, go!

Vanessa April 8, 2013 7 Comments
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