Results for: be the change
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The Comment Awards Are Dreaming of Espressos In Bed
“I had a one-time lover make me an espresso in the morning in 2018 and I have never stopped thinking about it.”
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Autostraddle’s Most Popular Stories of 2022
From Generation Q to football gays, Stardew Valley to The Golden Girls, these were our most read posts of 2022.
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It Was Like Living on the Moon
“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”
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How To Blow Up Your Life
I thought that by 35, I’d be married. I thought by 35, I’d have kids. I thought I’d be straight.
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Your Comments Showed Me I Wasn’t Alone
“Sharing my stories with that audience never felt right — I always felt like I was explaining, never that I was just telling my truth.”
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No One Else Is Going to Look Out for Us
“‘You realize you’re taking away the jobs and the health insurance of five people at the start of a pandemic and you don’t have to, right?’ She looked at me with her blue eyes, hands clasped to her heart and told me, ‘I have to do this for me.'”
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The Comment Awards Are Using Dental Dams
“‘Michelle Branch + leather’ is somehow incredibly accurate for my closeted self in that era.”
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So! How Is The Autostraddle Fundraiser Going?
Let’s talk about it!
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Yes, Fundraising Is Part of Our Business Model: Here’s Why
Here are updates to our current financial situation. Still, the essentials of everything we’ve been saying for years are true. Fundraising is a part of our business model!
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This Is a Highly Serious Post
Who wouldn’t love to see the AS senior staff sit in a bathtub of cold legumes, just for the sheer hell of it?
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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 Imagining The Future We Need
“I don’t wear a lot of sports apparel, but petty lesbians might just change that.”
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Welcome Autostraddle’s Newest Writers!
Say hello to the 14 (yes, you heard that right!) new writers who are helping to make Autostraddle brighter and sharper.
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Advice Columns Were My Guilty Pleasure Until They Became My Connection to Community
That’s what makes these posts so special, really, is that they’re not about a singular person bestowing their wisdom onto faceless readers but rather a coming together of a community to help each other sort through their shit in confidence.
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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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I Almost Didn’t Write It
I don’t want to write about it for any other publication. I barely want to write about it for myself.
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Do You Love Queer Books?
I want fewer queer books slipping through the cracks.
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My Top Nine Best Band Tees That Are Technically Just Autostraddle Merch
“Eddy and Becky, best friends who boned on OnlyFans to earn cash to fund Gay Chaos’ first album, started out with bathtub ukelele covers and careening, desperate ballads that made rock bottom sound like the world’s only emotional truth.”
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The 30 Most Popular Autostraddle Posts Of 2021
Believe it or not, there are a lot of quizzes and a lot of gay sports and a lot L Word Generation Q Content on our list of the most popular new Autostraddle posts of 2021!
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The Comment Awards Are Strapping On Their Toolbelt
“I asked my partner what they’d do if I showed up like ‘I heard you had something that needs hammering’ and they acted like they didn’t hear me.”