Results for: the real l word
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Interview With My Queer BFF: Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo
“That’s when we slept in a bed together and when I woke up I said I missed you while I was sleeping.”
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Getting With Girls Like Us: A Radical Guide to Dating Trans* Women for Cis Women
Okay ladies, let’s stop right here and get our game together.
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Style Thief: Underwear Week Special Edition
In this very special edition of Style Thief, I’ll strip some of my favorite queer women right down to their underwear.
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Straddler On The Street: Caro, The Lingerie Lesbian
In honor of Underwear Week 2013, Caro, The Lingerie Lesbian, tells us why she started her blog, which brands of lingerie are her favorites and offers some advice to girls who have to buy bras in sizes larger than a DD.
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16 Vintage “Gay” Advertisements That Are Funny Now That “Gay” Means “GAY”
“Happiness is a gay ribbon…”
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Before “The L Word,” There Was Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Unfortunate representation of queer communities may piss us off but it doesn’t mean it won’t help in some wacked out way. Just look at lesbian pulp fiction novels.
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Rock n’ Roll Camp: Volunteering Is The Purest Form of Awesome
“I didn’t know where all the people like me were, or how I would even talk to them if I saw one in the wild. All of that changed during the training session for first-time Rock Camp volunteers.”
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Jewelle Gomez, Lesbian Trailblazer: The Autostraddle Interview
“There was a great heyday in the 80’s in which I felt like you could publish anything, you could say anything – any of the initials, L, G, B, or T.”
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Six Ways that 1950s Butches and Femmes F*cked with Society, Were Badass
“Butches & Femmes paved the way for tons of fantastic lesbians, radical queers, revolutionary feminists, and really awful (and awesome) hairstyles that came after them.”
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Read a F*cking Book: “Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America”
If I had the power to declare this the official book of Herstory Month, I would. But I don’t have that power. Only you have that power. And you should read this book!
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When After School Specials Made Gay People Seem Not-So-Special
Curated video from 80’s and 90’s afterschool specials in which being gay was a lot like being a tornado or a flesh-eating virus.
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The Very Lesbian Life of Miss Anne Lister
“I give you a selection of the extremely gay life of Miss Anne Lister, a contemporary of Jane Austen and a precursor to Shane McCutcheon.”
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Ann Bannon, Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Autostraddle Interview
“And so while I would have loved to have done what Laura did, to go to New York and try to find myself, I did the more conventional thing, and I think I was not alone in that.”
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One Girl, One Unicorn: A Truly Epic Guide to Washington DC
Washington DC through the eyes of a hyper-social resident and her pet unicorn.
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Here/Queer: Two Years as a Lesbian Expat in South Korea
“Within the violence of invisibility there was also a sense of liberation and expansiveness, like we could just make everything up as we go along.”
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Artist Attack!: Jenny Holzer Can’t Protect You Anymore
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
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Artist Attack!: All the Cunning Stunts Queer It Up At Street Level
“…but I also think that part of what our light box project did was to not assume that participation in mainstream culture means that you also have to take the structures of visibility that come with it as a given.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Columbus, Ohio
Ohio’s capital city (and the third largest city in the Midwest) has everything you’d ever need, including the world’s best ice cream, one of the country’s largest universities, and a hoppin’ LGBTQ scene.