Results for: Feel good
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Unfortunately, This Magical Anti-Rape Nail Polish Won’t Save Us
On their Facebook page, the creators of Undercover Colors say they “hope to make potential perpetrators afraid to spike a woman’s drink because there’s now a risk that they can get caught.” But what about creating cultural shifts so that people don’t become violent assailants at all?
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Straight People Now Crashing LGBT Job Fairs
Although it would’ve seemed unbelievable not too long ago that a straight person would risk being mistaken for LGBTQ while on the job market, apparently some straight MBA students these days are being told by their teachers to attend LGBTQ career fairs.
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What the Criticism of Lingerie-Clad Women in Tech Got Wrong
Hold your horses, unicorns, and angry pack of wolverines — there’s more to this campaign than you may first assume.
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How Many People Are Queer? Probably More Than Two Percent
Alternative answer: not enough. Time to start recruiting! (…Kidding.)
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Also.Also.Also. Rachel Maddow Should be the First Gay President and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Famous people are saying smart things about Hobby Lobby, anti-discrimination legislation isn’t as effective as it should be, and the kids of LGBT parents are all right.
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San-Diego Comic Con Uses Minor Policy Changes Against Sexual Harassment: It’s Super Ineffective
“This is what happens when the patriarchy dons a cape and a cowl.”
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Top 10 Things I Watched While I Didn’t Have a Computer
There is no discernible theme.
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Quaker School Wins Religious Exemption to Exclude Trans Student From Campus Housing
African American trans student Jayce M has lost an appeal to receive on campus housing at George Fox University after the Department of Education granted the school a religious exemption from Title IX requirements.
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When It Comes to Campus Sexual Assault, Administrators Are Failing Their Communities
A New York Times cover story graphically depicts the sexual assault a student named Anna experienced when she was freshman at Hobart and William Smith colleges. It also details the pathetic excuse for a judiciary hearing she and countless survivors across the United States have encountered when reporting rape and sexual assault to their universities.
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Obama Closes Out Pride Month By Extending Workplace Protections to Transgender Federal Employees
President Obama is extending a 2009 memorandum he issued that gave protections and benefits to gay, lesbian and bisexual federal employees to transgender and gender non-conforming employees.
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Also.Also.Also: Mary Lambert is Writing Children’s Books About Women in STEM and Other Stories We Missed This Week
LGBT people are leaving some of America’s famously gay neighborhoods but cool projects are highlighting feminism, queer families in children’s books, and masculine of center fashion.
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Also.Also.Also: Janet Mock Wants Instagram to Love All Bodies and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Janet Mock continues her literary excellence, young people are making body positive statements, and Barbie may be in decline.
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Also.Also.Also. The Notorious RBG Wants Women and Queer People to Win Elections and Other Stories We Missed This Week
We’re still mad about Hobby Lobby, but this is still an important political moment for LGBT elected officials, students, and more.
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Do Your Damn Part: Subscribe To Your Local Newspaper
“We all, collectively, need to employ the people who report on issues important to us. And whether we like it or not, whether we relate to the general populace in the area where we live or not, those things happening in our most local sectors effect our lives immensely — even more immensely, usually, than national or international issues and news stories.”
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Also.Also.Also: La Roux Challenges Women’s Colleges and Other Stories We Missed This Week
My cat loves Autostraddle, an OITNB writer realizes she’s gay while working on the show, global governments are changing, the kidnapped Nigerian school girls may be found, and activists are as fierce as ever in fighting injustice.
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Also.Also.Also. Janet Mock is Re-Queering Documentaries and Other Stories We Missed This Week
It’s TIME to recognize super cool artists and activists, fight the wrongful imprisonment of transgender youth, and watch some neat documentaries.
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Also.Also.Also. Migrant Women Celebrate LGBT History and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Here’s the news we missed while I was freaking out about a potential technological disaster.
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Also.Also.Also: Does Oprah Sound Gay? And Other Stories We Missed This Week
LGBT folks are fighting discrimination in the workplace, in video games and at Pride, oh my!
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HRC’s New Campaign in the South Wants to Change “Hearts and Minds,” Not Much Else
In a region known for being socially conservative and heavily influenced by faith communities, HRC’s Project One America seems like a much-needed advancement for LGBT rights in the region. But is the HRC prepared to help the South, an area with a long history of struggles fueled by racism from colonization to slavery to the Civil Rights Movement?
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Michigan Affirmative Action Ban Upheld, Sotomayor Smacks It Down In 58 pages
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Michigan state ban on the use of race as a factor in admissions to state universities, allowing voters to decide the matter on a state-by-state level.