Results for: be the change
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Meet Natalie, Our Designated Driver for Social Justice! Also. Also! Answer Her Questions!
Meet Natalie! She’s here to write about social justice issues; specifically, about politics and LGBT rights and feminism and women’s rights and social justice and social norms and categories… things that irk her, things that excite her, things that make her go “what the what?!”, things that challenge her, make her uncomfortable in my own skin, things that are pleasurable and exciting. Get ready.
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Daily Fix – Best. Earth Day. Ever.
Empire Pride makes fun of NOM, but with logic instead of jokes. Everyone loves Jennifer Beals. Can psychiatrists cure homosexuality? No, but that doesn’t mean they won’t try.
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Why Are Gay Ladies So Afraid of the Gynecologist?
“We saddle up, feet in stirrups, ready to go and … bam! suddenly all become heterosexual women with one interest: reproduction!”
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Hey Hey What’dya Say
Sarah Haskins is funny, Obama is stuck, Kentucky is hateful, and Tyra is weird and also a robot.
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Weekend Fix: Cat Cora Craves Cupcakes & Kids Can Be REALLY CRUEL
Cat Cora is going to have many babies, Lara Perkins is getting married, gay republicans have a new, catchier name, and an eleven-year-old boy has hung himself as an absolutely inconceivably awful consequence of anti-gay bullying.
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Beat on the Street: In Which Amanda Palmer Gets Dramatic, Stef Learns The Musical Saw
We’re totally fascinated with everything Amanda Palmer writes, sings, says, thinks or Twitters, so obvs we sent a spy to see her co-production “With The Needle That Sings In Her Heart” performed by the Lexington High School Drama Club.
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NY Times Talk Panel: Jennifer Beals is a Perfect Human and Ilene Chaiken Talks A Lot
“I had to to my best to serve the story, but the final season just didn’t do these women justice. It should’ve been a celebration of love and friendship.”
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Girl-in-Berlin: 32 Hours for Me & Metric & The City of Berlin
“The plan was simple: get to Germany, soak up the city for the first evening, see as much of Berlin as possible the next day before attending brilliant Metric show, seduce Emily Haines, stay up all night in the city that never sleeps and fly back to Nantes at 7 A.M.”
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Now What? Earth Day, That’s What! Go Green With Green’s Earth-Daily Fix!
It’s Earth Day! Celebrate with Green’s hyperlinkage and fun ways for you to be green and crafty all spring long!
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NYC Pride Weekend 2009: The Recap – If It’s Good For You Then It’s Good For Me
This is the true story of seven team members and twelve interns picked to sleep on the floor and have their lives photographed, cartooned, tweeted, blogged, facebooked and autostraddled. Find out what happens when lesbians [and interns who claim to not be lesbians] stop being polite and start getting real queer!
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The One Where I Cover all The L Word Stuff At Once: SCOOP on Kate’s Three Rivers pilot, New Lezberado, Interrogation Tapes, etc.
Kate Moennig’s Three Rivers Pilot spoilers, plus updates on Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey
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Daily Fix 3.27.09 – Return to Pancake Mountain with Labor Pains and Glory in Delaware
Lindsay Lohan has a new movie, Bitch Magazine has a feature on GaybiGAYGAY, and Joe Solmonese has a bigger salary than you. Maybe.
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Autostraddle Storytime Roundtable: I Quit! You’re Fired! I’m Taking the Goldfish!
Our very best stories of getting fired, quitting triumphantly, and moving forward during that recession thing everyone keeps talking about.
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Haviland & Riese Vlog #35: More Advice Column, Hollywood-Style
At last! This here’s Haviland & Riese Vlog #35 — you’ve got feelings, we’ve got answers. Sometimes we have those answers about two months after you asked them, so I hope you haven’t been standing in the bathroom with your tampon waiting this whole time.
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Riese & Laneia Read Books: Part #2 of Lesbionic Young Adult Novels
“”If I’m being totally honest, I have to say that I felt a little awkward once I realized that the main character, Phoebe, is only 13-ish years old.”
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Weekend Fix – Girls, Girls, Girls
We’ve got a new facebook page and Shane, er, Kate Moennig is stalkable in Pittsburgh, PA. Check out the 40 sexiest frontwomen in rock.
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Weekend Fix-Team Hangover Will Attempt to Entertain You
Everyone in the world loves Portia, the Lesbian Exploratorium Project has created an exhibit on “Genderplay in Lesbian Culture,” and Katy Perry and Ellen DeGeneres performed a duet together? Really?
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That’s One Tall Woman
Obama, Tallahassee, and Judge Judy all love the gays, Tyra Banks is creeping us out, and Stef has great new music picks.
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She’s Done it Again, She’s Managed It – The L Word, Like the Cat, Has Nine Times to Die
But we fell in love with these characters in 2004 not because they self-mutilated or had fancy jobs on movie sets or had stalker/assistants or appeared on billboards; we loved them because they reminded us of us … just hotter, and living in West Hollywood. It was like our lives but burning a little brighter, and sexier, and richer … like most teevee shows are.
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Beat on the Street: SXSW Captain’s Log #2
Stef’s suitcase finally arrived! She saw Devo and Amanda Palmer and Margaret F*cking Cho! Amanda asks if maybe internet silence is going to be the new punk for musical artists, and later barks like a dog at Margaret Cho.