Results for: be the change
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15 Women’s Magazines That Don’t Suck, Are Awesome
Celebrating the women’s magazines that keep pumping out smart, innovative and well-designed stuff against all odds. US Weekly is not on this list.
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A Very Queer Edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
Topics include “The L Word: Not Your Mother’s Lesbians,” “Straight Girl’s Seduction” and “the ambisexual, heteroflexible teen.”
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Things I Read That I Love #15: Better Late Than Never
This week’s topics include sorority girls, raising kids these days, neuroenhancing drugs, online shopping warehouse working conditions and so much more!
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Eileen Myles Still Has It: The Autostraddle Review of “Snowflake / different streets”
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
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Autostraddle Book Club #5: The Hunger Games (Plus Movie Feelings OPEN THREAD)
HI, IT’S HERE, THE MOVIE IS HERE
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Sinclair Sexsmith on “Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica”: The Autostraddle Interview
“The questions quickly became, what is BDSM? And what is lesbian? I’m not sure I know the answer in general, but I figured out a context for this anthology to be born into, some parameters about kinks and fetishes and gender.”
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Things I Read That I Love #4
Topics include Trader Joe’s, symbolism, teacher-student affairs, muzack, quinceañeras and The West Memphis Three!
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Top Ten Fantasy Novels That Have Gay People In Them
This is a list of YA fantasy novels that fall somewhere between tangentially gay and really, really gay. They all fall under “read this immediately.”
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More Feminist Non-Fiction Recommendations for Your Reading Pleasure
Five feminist books for you!
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What Five Books Changed Your Life? Open Thread!
Look, it’s a new open thread! We love to talk about books, so why don’t you talk about them with us!
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Lady Writers Win More Book Prizes, Take Leap In Right Direction
The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and a majority of them are by female authors.
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Autostraddle Book Club #4: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“I am literally incapable of talking about a memoir about a queer woman grappling with a fraught, distant, infuriating relationship with her father without talking about myself.”
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Be Still My Heart: Eileen Myles Tackles the Female Life; Black Lesbian Poets Hit the Road
I am convinced that something Eileen Myles loves is something I will love. That is, if I don’t love it already.
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“Straightening” Gay Characters in Young Adult Fiction: Are YA Books Keeping You a Secret?
Is Young Adult fiction unfriendly to LGBTQ characters? The answer is “absolutely not” or “yes,” depending on who you ask.
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My Misspent Youth
Riese’s Team Pick: “Like the naïve teenager who thought Mia Farrow’s apartment represented the urban version of middle-class digs, I continued to believe throughout college that it wasn’t fabulous wealth I was aspiring to, merely hipness.”
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Eileen Myles Believes In Evil But Not Witch Hunts
Rachel’s Team Pick: “I think it’s quietly genocidal. I mean in a spiritual sense. Instead of pole dancing you can be a pleasure rug. Just lie down! The money will come.”
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Sarah Kay on TED
“I don’t know if I could change the world, yet, because I don’t know that much about it.”
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Little Girl, Big City: The Kit
“I said I’d gone to New York to be a model, and I hadn’t. I’d gone there for life and sex and cruelty.”
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On What We Owe Allen Ginsberg
“The original hipster had come down to Earth.”
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Bookstore Customers Say the Darndest Things
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: “Who wrote the Bible again? I’ve forgotten.”