Results for: love is a lie
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Where Hope and Grief Can Co-Exist
How do we both honor our child’s memory and prepare to open our hearts again to a new child?
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This Business of Art Fix #8: When One Thousand True Fans Isn’t Quite Enough
Topics include “the cult of Vice,” the folding of Scratch Mag, mental illness in business environments, the theory of 1,000 True Fans, Trollbusters and more!
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12 Big Baby-Making Questions This Queer Couple Asked Before Taking The Plunge
Questions I never thought I’d have to consider, but here we are. Get an exclusive peek into my over-processing journey towards queer parenthood.
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Gayby Maybe? The Epic Queer Parenting Roundtable!
Our panel answers your questions about getting knocked up, adopting, the challenges and rewards of queer mom life, and so much more!
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My Pregnancy Was Perfect, and I Lost My Baby Anyway
Sometimes, even the best laid plans are, well, decimated. Even a type-A mega control freak like me couldn’t control my own body when I was pregnant — and I certainly couldn’t control what happened to my son after his premature birth.
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Follow Your Arrow: Where Finding Your Passion Meets Building a Business
Welcome to this new column featuring interviews with queer and trans women running all kinds of businesses! We’ll talk about the challenges, what drives us, tools and tips, workspaces, marketing, and realism. First up: Beth interviews herself about her business, Little Red Tarot.
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Pregnant Beginnings. Literally.
Ah, pregnant beginnings. Literally and figuratively. The first trimester of this rainbow pregnancy (yes, that’s actually the term for a pregnancy after a loss). Is it possible to grieve and hope simultaneously?
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Makin’ Babies: Getting Pregnant On a Whim
“If we think too hard, we’ll never do it,” Kellie said. She was right. A cost-benefit analysis would yield no practical reason to grow our family. The only reason to make a new baby was that we felt like it, and we could.
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This Business of Art Fix #2: How Not To Do Journalism
Topics include the report on Rolling Stone’s UVA story, the shuttering of The Bold Italic, how the hell does networking work, the VIDA count and MOAR!
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All of the Ultimate Back-To-School Advice for College-Bound Queers
There is literally no incorrect way to do college and Autostraddle staff are the proof.
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On The Eighth Day of Hanukkah Your Bubbe Gave You Socks
“I think all Jews need to come clean about what we really get for Hanukkah. Luckily, I have compiled eight charts for your research.”
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Your 2015 Gay Girl’s Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Helpfully divided into sections by relationship status, ranging from “wife” to “the girl who isn’t even your girlfriend (… yet!).”
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Our Embarrassing Sleep-Deprived Mess-Ups and Mishaps: A Roundtable
Lord knows the messes we get ourselves into when we haven’t gotten enough sleep. If you want to know them too, they’re all revealed in this roundtable!
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Holigay Gift Guide 2014: 90s Kid Forever
If you or someone you love has been affected by 90s Kid Syndromeâ„¢, enable their disease with these gifts that are way cool and da bomb.
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Rebel Girls Holigay Gift Guide 2014: From Feminist Pillows to Misandrist Mugs
Hoping to find some really fashionable forms of misandry? YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE.
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Jewish Christmases I Have Known
What do you do when the world gives you a mandatory day off, when nothing is open except Chinese restaurants and movie theatres?
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Holiday Gift Guide for Your Furry (or Feathered or Scaly) Friend
Just because they have no concept of holidays or human cultural traditions doesn’t mean your pets wouldn’t enjoy a special treat for the holigays.
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My Top Seven Comics-Based Halloween Costumes for 2014
Dressing up like your favorite comic-inspired character is one of the best things about Halloween.
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Be A Person Who Gets Shit Done: A Gentle Guide
No new apps, intense #lifehacks or complicated productivity systems here — just solid habits to get into for an ass-kicking 2015.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Am Milking Every G.D. Second of Halloween
Welcome to the Friday Open Thread, where we process our weekly feelings together in the comments until they come out as rainbow apple cider. This Friday is a special Friday, of course, BECAUSE IT IS HALLOWEEN OH GOD SO EXCITING HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN.