Results for: book
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Eat Pray Love Won’t Teach You How to Be Alone (or, “First Try to See Something, Anything Else”)
We all come across approximately infinite poorly written, ill-researched, patriarchal and offensive things on the internet each day; most of the time, we can let them slide with a shake of the head. Sometimes, though, you can’t. And that’s when you stop being polite and start getting real about youtube, (specifically Tanya Davis’s “How To Be Alone,”) Eat Pray Love, and dbags.
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Don’t Want To Be Part of the Problem: A Field Guide to Airborne Homophobia
Is it possible to be a radical queer feminist and still overhear conversations, maintain friendships and interact in public with unradical non-queers, without screaming at everyone or compromising your identity? A case study.
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12 Rules of Lesbian Fight Club: How to Properly Argue with Your Girlfriend
Can you argue right? We have twelve rules that say you can. No biting!
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What Happened To Mitrice Richardson
The recent discovery of Mitrice Richardson’s body finally put an end to the speculation about her whereabouts – but there are still important questions that need to be asked about how she disappeared in the first place.
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Period 101: Toxic Shock Station
In which we revolutionize the way you menstruate and, happiest of all, STICK IT TO THE MAN!
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Long-Distance Flying 101: Music, Reading, Eating, Friend-Making, Drinking, Sleeping and Conquering Fears
As Crystal prepares for the long haul flight from Australia to Rodeo Disco, some of Autostraddle’s frequent flyers recommend some of the more constructive ways that one can spend their time on a 14-hour flight. Reader? Alcoholic? Nervous flyer? We’ve got advice: how to befriend a flight attendant, prepare delicious in-flight snacks, sleep in comfort and what musicians offer suitable in-flight listening.
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How to Date Girls: 10 Simple Rules for Properly Courting a Lesbian
Have you gotten over the giant hurdle of learning how to meet people/women? Are you now faced with the enormous task of convincing those people/women to stick around — properly? Lesbians have failed at romance long enough, it’s time you learn how to do it up right. We’ve got a post for that!
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The Official 2010 Autostraddle Hot 100: Real Queer Girls
Wanna see 100 Smokin’ Hot actual queer girls? It’s Autostraddle’s Second Annual Hot 100, and this year we asked you to submit yourself or your friends. And dayum y’all are fly. We hate to say it, but we’ve gotta: ladies — this is the way that we live.
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Top Ten Terrible Things That Probably Won’t Happen to You Today
These terrible things are unlikely to happen to you today, which should evoke a feeling of relief/happiness.
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How the DADT Survey Breaks All the Research Methodology Rules, Has Issues, Is Useless
It’s the middle of summer which means it’s the perfect time to brush up on your survey-constructing skills for all your social science classes next year. Let’s get this party started with the as-promised complete breakdown of the Department of Defense’s latest oeuvre, the DADT survey!
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28 Docs Later You’ll Be A Better Person, Just Watch
Autostraddle has a serious soft spot for documentaries, and we want to give you the same. Here’s the official Autostraddle list of the documentary films everyone should see before they die.
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Policing Female Masculinity: Much Ado About Rachel Maddow’s Yearbook Photo!
Rachel Maddow had long hair once. That’s right. You’ve seen the yearbook photo — she used to look like a Real Woman! (so says Senator Vitter). I’d tap that! (So says Buzzfeed). Whoa, y’all have some serious gender trouble going on. (Says us).
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Hip Hop Artist Rasheeda on NOH8: The Audiostraddle Interview
Glennisha chats to Hip Hop artist and frequent Pride performer Rasheeda about her recent photo shoot for the “NO H8 campaign” and her love and support of the LGBT community.
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Top Ten ’90s Movies Beloved by Girls Who Turned Out Gay
Looking back on it now, it all makes sense: these are films you probably loved if you were born in the ’80s and turned out gay. What are your favorites?
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Riese & Green Read Books: Lesbionic Young Adult Novels, Part #1
Green & Riese Read Lesbian YA Novels! Clandestine lesbian affairs! Secrets! Shame! Love! High School! That Girl You Loved — She Loves You Back!
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10 Badass Girl Team Movies
New Runaways clips and Autostraddle counts down ten of our favorite movies where badass girls get together and make shit happen with other girls; shit like the Georgia Peaches and witchcraft! Also; Lady Gaga’s video & 3D plans, the dead gay syndrome, American Idol, Claire Danes, Girltrash and girls kissing on 90210!
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Trans Photographer Amos Mac: The Autostraddle Interview
Amos Mac, photographer and editor-in-chief of the groundbreaking magazine, Original Plumbing, talks to Laneia about being a trans guy, the power of photography and (briefly) Girl Scouts.
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Top 20 Autostraddle Icons of 2009: The Future is Bright For Our ’09 Favorites
2009 was hands down totes The Year of the Weirdo. What does 2010 hold for our top 20 Autostraddle Icons? WHO WON?
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Sister Spit’s New Generation of Queer Poets & Rebels: The Autostraddle Interview
In 1997, Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson started Sister Spit – a spoken word tour full of the best queer writers and poets around. Twelve years later, Sister Spit: The Next Generation is taking over the world/my heart. On October 5, the tour came to Phoenix and I interviewed them for you, which is actually a big deal because it was the first face-to-face interview I’ve ever done and I was scared, y’all.
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Brittany Murphy Brittany Murphy Brittany Murphy Brittany Murphy Why
Why we’re still talking about Brittany Murphy, with a roundup of today’s tributes and updates on her death. Also; will Kanye and Beyonce be joining Gaga in LA?, a top ten list roundup, Tegan & Sara interviews, Ask Ro, Rihanna wants to cuddle, and is Avatar racist?