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“This Shit Has Got to Change”: The Autostraddle Interview with Black Lesbian Feminist Legend Barbara Smith
This past Saturday, just a few hours before the Millions March in NYC, I sat down with Barbara Smith, a Black lesbian feminist legend.
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Badass Blacksmiths: Women’s Work and Transgender Identity
People would look surprised and say, “But…you can’t be a girl. You’re a blacksmith!”
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Rebel Girls: 5 Bad Theories on Gender and Sex From Way Back When That Still Impact us Today
Not everything science has given us has made our lives better.
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Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: On Comets and Caroline Herschel
A Cinderella story, with less bibbidi bobbidi and a lot more astronomy.
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Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies
Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!
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14 Locations Conducive To Lesbianism According To 1954’s “Female Homosexuality”
“The fact that both male and female homosexuals congregate on one island no doubt gives them a sense of what might be called herd-security, much like sheep gathering together under a tree during a storm.”
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Rebel Girls: Mapping Power, Privilege, and Oppression
In which we learn about matrices, intersectionality, and why oppression only works in one direction.
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22 Things Lesbians Said About The Internet In 1994
“I know more about dyke cultures by being net-connected. It expands my world. We are definitely trail-blazing and cutting edge.”
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More Than Words: More Words, Then!
How to further evolution — with just your brain and your tongue!
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Rebel Girls: Women’s Studies Saved My Life, And I Want It To Change Yours, Too
“I try to remain impartial about most things,” she told us, “except for two: Ronald Reagan and Phyllis Schafly.”
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Idol Worship: Julia Serano Talks To Autostraddle About Fixing Feminism
A lot of my favorite feminists are the feminists who stand up to the movement. Julia Serano is definitely one of them.
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100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost
This epic megapost is your glorious opportunity to meet more than 100 amazing black LGBT women who’ve made their mark over the last 150 years.
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Rebel Girls: Your Handy-Dandy Map to the Feminist Movement
Just like you and I contain multitudes, so does the movement which advocates for women’s empowerment and equality.
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Idol Worship: Angela Davis Is My Ultimate Feminist Icon
Angela Davis will never be silenced, and her speaking out means that the rest of us are safely carried on the backs of giants when we do so ourselves.
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More Than Words: Mansplaining
You don’t need me to tell you what this is.
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More Than Words: Coming Out Party
Skeletons and debutantes.
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16 “Hard-Core Facts” About Lesbians From 1963’s “A New Look At The Lesbian”
Conversations among their own group consist of sexual gossip, certainly in excess of what we might have designated as “good taste.”
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18 Keen Insights On Lesbian Sexual Activity From 1966’s “The Lesbian Handbook”
“It is true that sapphism is also to be met with in quite young girls, but only if they live in houses of prostitution or in girls’ colleges.”
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A Muslim RuPaul At The Dawn Of Islam: Tuwais and the Mukhannathun
The mukhannathun are an inspiration for queer Mulims, and queer non-Muslims alike. They’ve certainly inspired me.