Results for: tomboy femme
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When Other People Get to Give Away Their Binders
Getting top surgery with my butch identity is no longer some unattainable fantasy. Now the question firmly rests with me: do I want to go ahead with it or not?
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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!
We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.
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Yup, A Lot Of Us Are Hairy Dykes After All
It’s true that queer women and non-binary people are more likely to let their body hair grow than straight cis women are — but a lot of us still take it off.
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Holigay Gift Guide: 5 Perfect Presents For All 5 Love Languages
Whether your person prefers quality time, physical touch, words of affirmation, receiving gifts, or acts of service, we’ve got some gift ideas for them!
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Daniel Sea On “The L Word,” Gender Identity, and Imagining Queer Liberation
“I spoke about gender identity, sexuality, and my past with journalists and people in Hollywood who just didn’t understand the language I was using. It was a culture shock for me.” — Daniel Sea
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SLICK: What Ever Happened To Baby Blue?
“Sometimes winning the switch fight meant kind of losing. When you were both switches, though, everybody won no matter the outcome. It all came down to pride and play.”
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“Better Things” Tells an Important Trans Story — By Not Telling a Trans Story
It can feel like the only responsible story is one where a trans teen is certain of their identity and is allowed to transition. But that’s not the experience of so many kids both trans and cis.
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“To L And Back: Generation Q Edition” Podcast Episode 302: Los Angeles Traffic
“I can’t think of a better metaphor for The L Word: Generation Q than Bette and Tina having a grand romantic gesture as new character — a new beloved fan favorite character, Gigi, is hit by a car.”
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Ain’t I A Bottom
Many Black women are raised to give our apparent struggles the stiff upper lip. We’re taught to be loud, and proud, and bigger than the world sees us. And at the end of all of that effort, in my most private and intimate moments, I wish to lay my burdens down. Ain’t I a bottom?
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Into the A+ Advice Box #45: Your Wife Has Depression but Won’t Get Therapy
A+ members get their personal advice questions answered by Autostraddle writers, twice a month in the A+ Advice Box! This week Autostraddle team answers A+ member questions about biphobia, struggling to text friends back, dealing with gender feelings and weight gain, tips for hot strap-on sex, finding that perfect masc-of-center scent and more!
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Generation Q Costume Designer Deirdra Govan on Finley’s Cut-Offs, Going Braless, The Joy of Jumpsuits and So Much More
“The first thing you see Finley in is her Wildfang popsicle underwear. That was an intentional and immediate call out to her character.”
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Into the A+ Advice Box #35: Summer 2021 Dating Edition!
For the first themed A+ Advice Box in our new themed series, you asked questions about dating yourself after having a kid, dating your partner after lockdown, using dating apps when you are tired of screens in general, getting into casual dating, dating again after time periods ranging from 7 months to 4 years, whether love is a lie, and more!
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Tops, Bottoms, Switches: One Last Look at All The Survey Data
In our last post dedicated to our tops / bottoms / switches survey, we’re looking at a broad overview of all the data.
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Monday Roundtable: The Style Icons Who Inspired Our Gay Style
“My style icon is Nancy Meyers’ interpretation of a middle-aged white woman after she’s decided to pull herself together sometime in the second act. Wow that is… I feel very called out by own self.”
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Bra as a Top: When It’s Too Hot to Wear an Entire Shirt
You have two options: duct-tape a bunch of ice packs to your torso, or wear a bra as a top.
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What Does It Mean to Be a “Top” or a “Dominant” in Lesbian Sex?
It’s time for part two of our series on what queer women and trans people are talking about when they talk about tops, bottoms and switches. Today we are taking your love ON TOP.
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80 of the Best Queer, Lesbian and Bisexual Books of the Decade
It sure has been a decade! Mainstream publishing has become much more open to queer stories, especially perhaps in YA, and the drive and determination of indie and queer publishing projects has meant that less saleable work that is sometimes more resonant to our lives has been able to make it to our shelves. Here are some of the brightest highlights!
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Insta Crush: Femme Birds Are a Diverse Flock With Big Magic
What is a femme bird’s favorite activity? Pecking the white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchy to death and then ripping it to shreds.
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Here’s Your Full Video Workshop Breaking Down Everything You Need to Know for Strap-On Sex
The latest in Queer Sex 101, our series of real live queer people teaching you everything you need to know about real queer sex continues, with a one-hour workshop from sex educator, Autostraddle writer, SLICK editor and More, Please! editor Ro White on strap-on sex.
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8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs
The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.