Results for: representation
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We Need Help: Now Hiring Contributing Editors!
We’re looking for gutsy and ambitious reporters who wanna join the best team ever and get paid to write about stuff that matters.
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Straddler On The Street: Jill/Gilles
Jill/Gilles is a Professional Queer if I ever met one and strives “to bring trans*, female-bodies, queer representation to a community that needs it.”
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We’ve Got 12 Loyal A-Campers and They’ve Got 12 Reasons To Attend A-Camp
Listen to 12 campers who have been to all three A-Camps and are signed up for October when they tell you how camp changed their lives and why you definitely wanna be on the mountain for A-Camp 4.0
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Straddler On The Street: Emily G.
Emily talks about the badass A-Camp tumblr she runs and her camp feelings, her incredible rainbow hair, and how she wants to collaborate with all of you power queer Straddlers.
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The 2013 Trans 100 Chicago Launch Event: I Went, I Saw, They Inspired
“I spent over three hours with my jaw on the floor, my heartstrings in constant song, and the baby activist inside me growing more inspired by the minute.”
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Straddler On The Street: PJ
“Being butch is something I have both been my entire life and something that I have chosen.”
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Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Katie is Miss August
“I came out to bosses and people I had just met and guys who hit on me and former boyfriends and doctors and professors and relatives and Facebook and even the grocery store cashiers. I wanted to assert myself, my identity.”
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The Comment Awards Think You’re A Waffle Iron
This week we have love for older lesbians, Nutella, pocket squares and you!
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A-Camp May 2013 Recamp #3: Fun Before 2pm, Fun After 2pm
You’ve got swagger, fashion, comedy, whiskey, geeky pick-up lines and the coolest klub on the mountain!
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Introducing B-Camp
If you didn’t make it into A-Camp, there’s still a bright beaming ray of sunshine on your horizon and it’s called B-Camp! BRING YOUR OWN PROPS AND HAIR CRIMPER.
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Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: The Personal Is Political Is Art
“Theatre taught me that it was fine to be different; I wish it had shown me it was fine to be a queer woman, as well.”
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A-Camp May 2013 Recamp #4: YUP.
In our last recamp, we party at the pool, dance all night, have feelings, display talent, and wish it never had to end.
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College Lesbianage Class of 2016: NaNoWriMo Hopes and Dreams
Are you NaNoWriMoing? If you are, you’ve got something in common with Lesbianagers Kate and Nita!
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A Much-Needed Primer on Cultural Appropriation
I bought tiny dreamcatcher earrings from a Navajo woman when I recently drove through Navajo Nation on a road trip. Am I unconsciously promoting cultural appropriation because I like the way webs and feathers look dangling from my ears?
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The Comment Awards Can’t Help But Smile
Have I told you lately that I love you? All of you? Because I do.
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That’s Not Who I Am: Calling Out and Challenging Stereotypes of Asian Americans
Asian stereotypes are everywhere. Let’s talk about them, yell about them and do something about them.
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The Comment Awards Are Still Excited About Camp
And will be until 2056.
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Vote For Autostraddle In The 2012 Bloggie Awards!
Autostraddle is somehow miraculously a finalist n the 2012 Bloggie Awards for “Best Entertainment Blog” and “Best Community/Group Blog” AND “WEBLOG OF THE YEAR”!
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A-Camp Recap Day #3: We’ve Got Talent
Day Three’s activities included the sex panel, the talent show, the queer women of color panel, the picking up chicks workshop, ‘zine-making, the dance and SO MUCH MORE!
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“Straightening” Gay Characters in Young Adult Fiction: Are YA Books Keeping You a Secret?
Is Young Adult fiction unfriendly to LGBTQ characters? The answer is “absolutely not” or “yes,” depending on who you ask.