Results for: dead to me
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Fifty Shades of White
Having the blessing – or curse – of lighter skin is a double edged sword. I never gave much thought to the idea that society needs positive cultural images of minorities until I came to embrace my Hispanic heritage and come out of the closet.
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I’m Going To Homeschool These Damn Babies
I finally feel safe enough to imagine the big queer family I never had. A home where gender is an option, not an obligation, where parents can apologize to each other as well as to their kids and where long, ongoing conversations about race, power and privilege exist.
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Ari Fitz Is Exploding “The Real World”: The Autostraddle Interview
“I represented my community and I think there are a lot of other people in the house that kind of did them and we just did us and I think that’s what makes the show a really good, almost – if I can say this – positive Real World. I think it’s awesome because we’re us and we lived and we cried and we fucked.”
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Top 10 Instances of Open and Unapologetic Celebrity Cultural Appropriation in 2013!
“Oh, wait, so you’re not dressing in a mass-produced stereotypical ‘Native’ costume, and instead were just dressing as one of the most racist caricatures depicting an Indigenous person in the history of American cinema?”
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Fear and Loathing (as a 21-Year Old Queer) in Singapore
“I am afraid help will come too late to someone in my life. I am afraid that closets become coffins.”
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Trauma Queen: An Autostraddle Book Review and Interview
Trauma Queen, the new memoir by Lovemme Corazon, is a hard read but equally hard to put down. There are many, many people who will find a familiar history in this book, and the author hopes that will be a jumping off point for healing and discussions.
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Dust to Dark: The Colors of My Craziness
“It’s on my twenty-fourth birthday that I realize something is wrong. I wake up crying and I don’t stop.”
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The ALTERNATIVE Autostraddle Hot 105: Hotties You Will Like Who Also Like Girls
105 more humans for you to have awkward crushes on.
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Five Ciara Videos That Made Me Queer
I’m pretty sure I became gayer in the process of putting together this post.
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Call and Response: On Body Snarking and The Word “Tr*nny”
“If you do feel the need to ask if someone is transgender or not, first ask yourself why. Why is it your business? Why do you need to know? And will it change anything you think about this person?”
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Estranged: How I Fell In Love With A Girl And Lost My Family
“When they see you happy, they’ll accept it,” someone told me once. When there are tears about something unchangeable, people can only be optimistic. It’s the only thing that is left.
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Read a F*cking Book: Sylvia Traymore Morrison’s ‘Almost There, Almost’
This book promises you two things: it was written by a funny person and it was written by a great person. You can’t go wrong.
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I’m Not a Costume: STARS and the Campaign Against Racist Halloween Costumes
A student group from Ohio University decides to launch a campaign against racist costumes — how people have reacted against it and why they’re wrong.
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The Ethics of Lust: On Interracial Relationships and Anti-Miscegenation Laws
We discuss interracial couples and how the gay marriage movement could learn a thing of two from their struggles.
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“That’s What She Said” is Queer Asian America In Your Face
Why a group of six queer Asian American women are producing, acting in, and writing a groundbreaking queer web series, and why you should care.
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Real L Word’s Sajdah Golde Gets Real: The Autostraddle Interview
“Imagine if you’re just meeting someone, and you look like you’re in the middle of a Verizon commercial because you got a whole fucking network behind you. That’s scary!”
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Kate Moss & Lea T’s LOVE Mag Cover Brings Out Media’s Inner Transphobe
Kate Moss and Lea T are kissing on the cover of Love magazine. People who don’t know anything at all about trans people felt they needed to write ignorant things about this event. Also it’s a hot cover.
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BREAKING: Oprah Still Isn’t a Lesbian
Can’t two women be besties in this town without everyone thinking they’re making out? So over it. Let’s talk this out.
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Margaret Cho Gets Cho-Dependent: Autostraddle Interview
We talk to Margaret Cho about tattoos, her romantic relationships with gay men, celebrities who come out later in their careers, her pick for “the next Gaga,” Adam Lambert, Ani DiFranco, Sex & the City and more.
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What Happened To Mitrice Richardson
The recent discovery of Mitrice Richardson’s body finally put an end to the speculation about her whereabouts – but there are still important questions that need to be asked about how she disappeared in the first place.