Results for: Feel good
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8 Nerdy Ways to Mend Your Broken Heart
Need some (healthy) summertime escapism? Did you get dumped, get distance or are you just pining for your crush on that massive open thread still? Kim’s got 8 cures for heartache and heartbreak, none of which involve the bottom of a bottle. Mostly they involve the Discovery Channel, Buffy and some retro games, of course.
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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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Top 10 Cookies You Can Buy at the Drugstore
Have you ever thought, what are the top ten kinds of cookies that come in boxes all over the country do I like to eat the most? Us too!
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This is a Holdup: Make Your Own Suspenders
Get out your needles (or go out and buy one) because we’ve got a super simple guide to crafting your own suspenders.
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Guinevere Turner, From “Go Fish” to L-Wording: The Autostraddle Interview
Writer/actress/director Guinevere Turner tells all about her L Word legacy, her own “Chart,” why she stopped watching, seeing “Go Fish” two decades later, writing Michelle Rodriguez & Kristanna Loken’s Bloodrayne underwater fight scene, and — well — read this interview. Seriously. Read it right now, trust me.
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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 I Turned Straight Actors into Badass Butch Queers in Three Days Flat
Gabrielle Rivera wanted an all-queer cast for her first short film. When she ended up with straight girls in her three butch/AG leads she found herself giving them a crash-course in abandoning gender norms, taking up space and playing gay. And then everything changed, forever.
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Valentine’s Day Mix Tape 101: 43 Love Songs, 49 Anti-Love Songs & Some Videos!
Audiostraddle and the rest of the team pick our favorite love songs and anti-love songs for your Valentine’s Day mix tape. It’s not too late to give the gift of song.
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Lesbian Safe Sex 101: The Doctor Is In (Also, the Cartoonist)
It’s hard out there for a sexually active lesbo — how do you get the safe sex info you need when you’re afraid of the gyno and lesbians are ignored in sex ed? WELL WE’VE GOT A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE. Also; a cartoonist. Really you have to see the cartoons.
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Autostraddle Roundtable: Becoming Queer Feminists (Part 1)
We finally wrote another roundtable, and it’s about feminism! This discussion is gonna take a while, so we’re going to start this by talking about how we first became feminists. Share your own experiences in the comments!
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Live-Blogging Dinah Shore Weekend Part III: Julie & Brandy vs. The Lesbians
Reading this Dinah Shore live-blog PART TROIS, updated constantly, is almost like being at Dinah Shore’s legendary lesbian Palm Springs weekend historical event of fun. Miley Cyrus is in this one!
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How to Road Trip Right: Music & Feelings For Long-Distance Driving
Spring break is the perfect time of year for a road trip through the desert! Or anywhere, really. You’re gonna need the right music and Autostraddle’s got you covered.
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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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Best Headphones: Autostraddle’s Headphone Shopping Guide
Where did all the good headphones go? This’s the question that Team Audiostraddle are attempting to answer as they recommend some of the finer models of ear/headphones they’ve experienced lately. Got your own suggestions? Share ’em below.
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Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Video: Even Gayer Than Actual Dance Clubs
Lady Gaga & Beyonce’s “Telephone” video premiered tonight: a recap & a roundtable of opinions from our music team. OMG JAILYARD LESBIANS
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Toni Collette is Queering Gender in United States of Tara: The Autostraddle Interview
Season 2 of United States of Tara kicks things up a notch with homo-sexy goodness with Joey Lauren Adams and further explores her gay son Marshall’s sexuality. We met up with the woman of a thousand looks and accents to talk about straddling the line of gender roles and norms, her preparation for playing multiple characters within the same TV series, what major role she turned down and more!
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Jennifer Beals Shoots L Word Book, Is Perfect: The Autostraddle Interview
Jennifer Beals, Supreme Being of Life, talks to Autostraddle about her new photography project The L Word Book, disappointment in Obama, the Johnny Weir controversy, the possibility of a movie, the TiBette phenomenon, closeted Hollywood actors, and just what makes her so goddamn perfect.
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Chatroulette Explored: Images of an Internet Frontier Town
Keep hearing about Chatroulette, but afraid to check it out? Never fear- our intrepid team explores the seedy, occasionally profound underbelly of the website so you don’t have to. And don’t miss our total weirdo screenshot gallery!
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Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos
A symbolical analysis of the Taylor Swift canon (w/infographic). Is there art without sex? Love without raincoats? Feminism without girls? Beauty without dirt? Copycats without claws?
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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.