Results for: dead to me
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Drawn to Comics: Queer and Trans Women and Nonbinary Creators To Support This Holigay Season
I do this list every year around this time, but this year it might be more important than ever. With the election of Trump and Pence and a Republican Congress, LGBTQ people and women are targets in a way we haven’t been for a while, and we’ve been a pretty big target for a long time.
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Autostraddle’s Staff Shares Their Stories About Why We Need to #SaveTheACA
“Obamacare turned me from a liability into a full citizen worth protecting, and to see it roll backward instead of march forward would be a stain on our national history and an immediate threat to countless people.”
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Feelings Rookie: Coping Skills
Coping is a huge part of our lives and we all have our schemes, whether they’re conscious or not. In this particularly troubling time, it’s more important than ever.
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The Top 11 All-Natural Things That Help Me Calm The F*ck Down
“I’ve got anxiety, and lots of it. When my grandma sends me a Facebook message asking me to call home, I know everyone I love is dead. I know at least three serial killers live under my bed.”
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Mama Outsider: When Your Mother Thanks You for Keeping Your Baby
“Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst into the fire. It has taken me much longer than my mother to see the gift of my own naiveté.”
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Top 10 YouTube Videos That Did Not Teach Me How To Dance
Is it possible to learn hot dance moves and wow all your pals on the dance floor just from watching YouTube videos? I decided to find out.
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Sweaty All The Time: 11 Things That Didn’t Cure My Hyperhidrosis and the One Thing That Did
Let’s talk about (excessive) sweat, baby.
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Take Yourself on a Diarist’s Hike
Can you capture some of the magic of A-Camp’s Diarist Hike where you live? Based on my experiences, I’d say yes.
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10 Movies That’ll Make You Pleased To Be Single On Valentine’s Day
“First everybody chews spaghetti really loud.”
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Countdown to Baby T. Rex: “Mommy” Feelings and Dinosaur Mobiles (25 Weeks)
There is no chance I’m going to evade the Cult of Mommy-ness. My undercut can’t save me.
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Witch Hunt: We Witch You a Merry Christmas (and Solstice, and Yule)
In these wintry times it’s important to keep yourself grounded, to remind yourself that you are powerful and to keep your coven close to you.
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Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers
“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”
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NEW YEAR’S OPEN THREAD: What’s 2016 Gonna Be All About For You?
In 2016, we’re giving ourselves permission to do stuff we wanna do, on our terms, for ourselves. How about you?
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Business of Art Fix #12: Like Being Perpetually Two Drinks Into A Really, Really Fun Night On The Town
Nerve.com begins a new chapter with a look back on all previous chapters, The Butter shutters, September is a big month for black women on magazine covers, The Daily Beast shuts down comments and more interesting stories!
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Autostraddle’s Ultimate Holigay Gift Guide 2015: What We Really, Really Want This Year
Stumped on what to get your queer BFF? Trying in a last-ditch attempt to bulk up your own list? Looking for inspiration for the perfect gift for your loved ones? We’re bound to have something in common with you or someone you like, so get in here and check out our wish lists!
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This Business of Art Fix #9: The False and Unsound Will Be Vanquished
What’s going on with Gawker, what’s going on with Reddit, Facebook’s algorithm, coming up with ideas as a freelancer, why many entrepreneurs are comfortable taking risks, and more!
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7 Ways to Not Get Murdered By a Bear
With summer (and A-Camp) fast approaching, I think it is a good time to remind ourselves how to not be a bear’s dinner.
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Gayby Maybe? The Epic Queer Parenting Roundtable!
Our panel answers your questions about getting knocked up, adopting, the challenges and rewards of queer mom life, and so much more!
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This Business Of Art Fix #1: That Awkward Moment You Realize That There Is No Businesswoman’s Lunch Special
The very first edition of a biweekly link round-up of stuff I’ve read and thought about relevant to the work we do here: online media, women in business, entrepreneurship, journalism, start-up culture, publishing, advertising, management, freelancing, literature, queer visibility, etc. LET’S TALK BUSINESS, LADIES.
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Remembering $PREAD Magazine in a City Once Synonymous With Sex Work
“The magazine’s legacy turns 10 years old this month, though its publication was cut mercilessly short at five and a half years. Started by Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega, Aimee recalls a trio without any publication experience and an urgency to compile the stories of sex workers available to them.”