Results for: be the change
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The Catch-22 of Being a Trans Woman Athlete
A trans woman athlete’s thoughts on having her identity under public attack while feeling neglected by her community.
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You Need Help: How Do I Know If I’m Really Non-Binary?
There is no “solution” to gender identity.
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Three Bisexuals in Their 30s on Coming Out While in Long Term, Monogomous Relationships
“I didn’t want a divorce, didn’t want to open our relationship, didn’t want to start dating other people — I just wanted to own this piece of myself that I’d spent a lifetime denying.”
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Surprise, It’s Depression: Recovery from Gender-Affirming Surgery
After gender-affirming surgery, many trans people experience post-operative depression. Awareness and the knowledge that you aren’t alone can help.
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You Need Help: I Just Turned 65 and I’m Questioning My Sexuality
I think everyone in the queer community knows this but I think we need to say it more explicitly and more often: Queerness is a journey.
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Bisexuality, Queerness, Labels, Perception: A Conversation Between the EIC and the HBIC
Autostraddle’s Editor-in-Chief and Head Bisexual-in-Charge talk bisexual discrimination on dating apps, biphobic stereotypes in queer relationships, “the patriarchy,” and having tent sex in the woods.
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You Need Help: I Can’t Figure Out What I Should Wear and Who I Should Date
You don’t need to have one particular vibe, type, or style. You don’t have to have it all figured out now, next week, or next year.
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Elliot Page Movies Ranked By Transness
Hollywood’s transphobia is no match for the shot of adrenaline that is finally being out to yourself and the world.
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The Barriers that Keep Trans People From Thriving in Texas
The Lone Star state has repeatedly attempted to take life-saving resources away from trans people.
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You Need Help: Will I Ever Grow Out Of The Messy Questioning Phase?
Accept the messy questioning phase. It’s the whole point of being alive.
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Gender Fluidity and the Black Atlantic
I always wonder what words my ancestors had for someone like me. In embracing my genderfluid identity, I’ve found great comfort in the deep and wide of the Atlantic — the way the water connects me to kin, named or unknown.
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Mirrors and Makeouts: Finding Trans Pleasure
Within the brief eternity of our car makeout, in touching her body, I felt my shame begin to melt.
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This Is an Essay About Penises
“I spent years not thinking about my penis — or, at least, thinking about it as little as possible. After I transitioned, my penis became the most important part of my body — at least, to other people.”
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The Coming Out Scenes We’ll Never Forget
“I doubt that Santana was written from the jump with the intention to make her a lesbian, but sometimes that’s what a coming out journey feels like — like you’re in a show and the writers chose a new direction for your character mid-way through Season Two. You can still look back and find a way to make it all fit together, though. Stories and lives are fluid like that.”
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“Trans in Trumpland” Depicts the Past, Present and Future of Trans Lives
Four trans individuals are featured in the new docu-series exploring the impact of Trump’s ideologies.
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What You Think A Woman Looks Like
Recognizing that I was never going to fit comfortably into my American peers’ idea of masculine or my Indian family’s idea of feminine meant freedom to throw out both scripts and write a new one.
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How Tam Found Empowerment in the Closet
What are you to do when you are a Vietnamese asexual and aromantic woman who grew up in white, cishet, francophone-dominated Montreal in the 1980s and 1990s?
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Am I A Lesbian? The Lesbian Masterdoc Is a Popular Source of Answers To This Elusive Question
“The Lesbian Masterdoc” has been making the online rounds since 2018, helping questioning people sort through their experiences with compulsory heterosexuality.
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A Year of Intersex Victories
2020 wasn’t quite a victory for many people. But the intersex community has much to celebrate.
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“If I Don’t Say Something, No One Will”: 6 TGNC+ Perspectives on Trans Visibility in the US South
“I know we everywhere, but Black SOUTHERN people are and will always be my heart. The way we love up on each other. Take care of each other. Check up on each other, sometimes a little too much. It’s the cadence of our little sayings, the burst out loud laughter. The dramatics in the everyday stories of nothing. I love Black southern people.”