Results for: be the change
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Autostraddle Predicted the Future in 2014 🔮 And We Were Spot On
A+ is a key part of the reason Autostraddle can be the way that we are today, and why we can publish what you love.
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No Time for Hell, Yet. Or: Is This Essay Really Just About My Inbox?
You would think that, as someone living, not in actual Paris, but the “Paris of Appalachia” as they call Pittsburgh, that Brexit would leave me largely unaffected, but dear reader, you would be wrong!
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I Said It Was Time To Quit
It wasn’t the first time or the last time I declared it Time to Quit, a statement I always throw around a bit too carelessly.
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The Comment Awards Are Paws Up for Prancer
“Does Girls Out of Hell describe the women I read about or me who intrigue me, live in my head rent free, and continuously pull me in like a moth to flame? Hell yeah!”
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The Comment Awards Are Going Back to High School
“Just surround yourself with dogs and keep chanting, ‘I was a lesbian in 1974.'”
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If Your Dream Only Includes You, It’s Too Small
Heather Hogan noticed that I had taken up permanent residence in the comments of “Boobs on Your Tube” every Friday, basically writing recaps of my own (I felt lost, Autostraddle was my port in the storm). Heather asked if I had ever considered writing about television as a career. She said, “We can pay you. Not as much as we’d like to, but we’ll find the money. Is that something you’d be into?”
I wrote back, “That is something that I would VERY MUCH be into! In fact, I hope it’s not too unprofessional to say that I would love it with all of my heart.”
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Stacks of Boxes and a Bottomless Inbox: A Day of Work
It felt like this kind of thing came so easily when I was 25!
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Welcome Our New Managing Editor, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya!
I want to encourage writers to pursue their wildest, weirdest ideas.
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Four Years Later
I was hustling to make life work as a freelance writer and graphic designer and workshop presenter (and, like, food delivery person and countless other gigs) in an increasingly treacherous digital media landscape.
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The Comment Awards Are Having the Nicest Gay
“Say you were on a panel and the question came up. How would you explain it to Brie?”
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The Comment Awards Are Calling Friends on the Landline From Their Grandma’s Sofa
“Carol, if you are reading this… call me.”
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‘Faster’ Isn’t Always ‘Better’
This was my first time editing a written series on my own, but as a Very Confident Aries, I wasn’t worried… It wasn’t that simple.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What’s The Best Advice You’ve Ever Received?
One piece of good advice can change the world. Chin up, loves.
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At One Point, It Saved My Sanity
This is more than a workplace where they’ll notify HR and we’ll all be polite about my pronouns.
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A Capricorn Without a Routine: A Day of Work
I wish I was the kind of girl who woke up at the same time every day, had an extensive skincare situation dialed in, and had finally cracked the code of which intense journaling system would help quiet my overworked and perpetually anxious brain, but that’s just not who I am.
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You Are THE BEST and Raised $100k; Now We’re Shooting for $50k More!
You ALL came together to get us to $100,000 and we believe you can get us to $50,000 more. 79% of the donations that made $100,000 possible were $50 or less! We mean it when we say that this is an effort of everyone coming together and donating what they can to make a huge difference. Together, you and we are powerful. We can make change happen. Let’s never forget that.
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The Comment Awards Are Spicing Things Up
“Thyme goes by so slowly, and thyme can do so much.”
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How Do You Scale a Personality Cult?
We do lose something when dedicated queer spaces like Into, Girlfriends and SheWired shutter or AfterEllen goes full TERF, but we also lose something when The Awl, The Hairpin and The Toast do. These were places where writers were free to experiment, to be weird, to make writer-first content that isn’t easily monetizable.
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We Say Goodbye To Kamala As Our Editor-In-Chief And Look Ahead To 2021
Kamala has made the decision to leave Autostraddle to pursue other opportunities. We’re proud of the work that we’ve started together, and look forward to continue building our vision in 2021!
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Calling All Believers: Autostraddle Is Fundraising for the Queer and Not-Too-Distant Future!
We have a Gay Agenda to fulfill! And we can only do it with your help! Also, do not miss these perks! We’re not kidding.