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The Great Angling Lesbian Society: A History of Chicago’s Lesbian Fishing Club
For one group of Chicago lesbians in the mid-1990s, building a queer community meant sitting around a barrel fire in the freezing, rainy April night, casting smelting nets and awaiting a barrage of tiny fish.
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Home Births and Body Horror
By the time I was ten, I’d attended three home births.
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Who Do You Meet On the Greyhound?
A teen dyke wanders around the country in the early 2000’s, armed with an Ameripass and a journal.
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Salvadorans Under The Moonlight
I didn’t expect us to create a Blood Moon Healing Circle Ceremony. It wasn’t on the emailed itinerary. Why did we even feel the need to create it? Two words: intergenerational trauma.
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15 Ways to Stay Out of Trouble According to a 1950s Reverend-Doctor
Don’t be a frigid bitch, but don’t be so un-frigid that you murder your husband with sex.
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The Autostraddle Yearbook: A Decade Of Gay Work
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives…
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What Happened When I Began to Dig
“I’ve grown physically stronger through trail work than I ever thought possible, but there’s that different kind of strength that trail work has fostered in me that I believe to be a lot more important.”
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Going Outside with Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Maybe if trans women can redefine what it means to be close to nature we can also redefine what it means to be close to each other.
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No Regrets: These Tattoos Are My History
Some pieces are easier to explain than others.
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Going Back Outside After the Streetlights Come On
When you’re little, the backyard of your grandma’s house is an entire universe. Growing up is finding the kid in you and being brave enough to take them outside again – without warning them about coming home before the streetlights come on.
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How to Be a Grown Woman
“Maybe I could teach you how to do that and you could teach me a couple of things I’ve been wonderin’,” I told her. She shook my hand. It was a deal.
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Our Father, Who Art
You see, my father was going to Heaven. He was raised an Orthodox Jew, the only child of Victor and Dorothy, but becoming Catholic, this was the way forward for him. He would be saved.
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Intervention
I had “dressed” myself before driving drunk to my mother’s home. I had taken a shower thinking that water would take away the smell; that putting on leggings instead of leggings-that-I-slept-and-drank-in, would make me look like I was wearing clothes; that if I put on mascara I’d look like I had slept through the night and not spent the whole day drinking.
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What a Time to Fail!
“I want to cry but I work in events, and I can’t go home until 8pm. Instead I spend the afternoon wondering how much it would hurt if I bit off my finger.”
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On the Trail of the Quaker Aunts
The Quaker Aunts were the stuff of family legend, fearsome women in sensible shoes. Did one of them really smuggle Jewish children across the Alps before World War II?
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Monday Roundtable: Hey Bad Spender
“I think I’m willing to do this because I’m constantly aware that death awaits us all and I’m more inclined to want to heighten an experience if I can.”
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Monday Roundtable: I’m Not Gonna Do It
It’s not gonna happen, buddy.
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Queer 90s Fashion With Accidentally Lesbian Celine Dion
“If Rachel Maddow ever hits Dinah Shore karaoke party in a three-quarter-length leather coat and leather pants, it will look like every performance on this live album.”
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This Year Is Gonna Be a Good One: Birthday Diaries, 2001-2018
17 years of birthday diary entries.
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Monday Roundtable: Our Childhood Disobedience, Revisited
“I like to think I’ve put my talking-back skills to great use as an adult who enjoys proving points and getting the last word and being right.”