Results for: be the change
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Kristen Kish Is Top Chef’s New Padma Lakshmi, Unleash The Suits!
There is no one on the face of the earth who can replace Padma Lakshmi, but there is one person who has the skills and experience and charm to follow Padma’s culture-changing tenure on Top Chef, and that’s Kristen Kish!
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“Orange Is the New Black” Changed Everything We Thought We Knew About Queer TV
As “Orange is the New Black” wraps up its seven-season run, our TV team weighs in on the show’s legacy — the good and the bad.
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Be The Change: The Art of the Ultimate Letter to the Editor
A letter to the editor can be an effective tactic to get the word out about an issue, show support for a bill, speak up about something in your community, or to get free publicity for your activist work!
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For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup
For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.
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Things I Read That I Love #332: Massage Parlors, Daily Harvest, Climbing, Branson, Britney and More
Topics include the late shift at a Toronto massage parlor, Baptist Vegas, the New Ken circa 2017 by Caity Weaver, Buy Nothing, Daily Harvest, a missing girl in the Ozarks, a mountain-climbing death that changed everything and more!
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How To Change Your Hair Dramatically After a Breakup
Seize control of your image! Be hot as a form of revenge! Do it for you! Just feel good about something in a time when it’s so easy to feel bad about everything!
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Just Take It Bird By Bird: On Personal Writing
Writing about your own experiences, whether it’s through memoir or essay or slam poetry or leaving post-its about the sandwiches your mom used to make for your lunch on lampposts, can be empowering and life-changing, even without anyone else reading it.
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The Book That Helped Me Leave Religion: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”
The first sentence of “The Books of Bokonon” – the fictional foundational text of Bokononism, the religion Kurt Vonnegut invented for his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle – reads as follows: “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
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Hot Cheetos: A Chorus
Even years after we graduated high school or left our hometown or eschewed processed snack foods, we couldn’t deny the evidence of our former appetites, each of our fingers a flapping red flag.
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Celebrating Ten Years of She Shreds Magazine: An Interview with Fabi Reyna
“In my opinion, music is the tool for distributing change through culture, through messaging, through community and collective vision.”
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This Episode of “Real Housewives of New York” Was Performative Pride Allyship at Its Finest
“March Madness”, as completely unhinged and dated as it is, also reveals something far more depressing and contemporary: Nothing has really changed.
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The Book That Made Me Get Sober: Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”
Reading The Recovering was like reading a diary full of thoughts I would never have been brave enough to write down. I felt something I’d only ever felt once before, when I kissed a girl for the first time and a million tiny moments from my life suddenly snapped into place. I felt a corner of my brain relax, like it’d been trying to work out a code and had just been given the key. Oh, this is what I am. That explains it.
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Foolish Child #105: The Elephant in the Room
Do not the change the subject.
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This Trans Day of Remembrance, Show Up With Material Support (And Every Other Day, Too)
In the face of dehumanizing rhetoric and violence that turns our community members into statistics, it is our responsibility to care for one another and change the conditions that impact trans people’s quality of life right now.
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Pop Culture Fix: Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi Scrap, Lesbian Aunt Megan Approves
Stephanie Beatriz joins Twisted Metal, Gentleman Jack is changing lives, CW’s Great Queer Culling continues, and more.
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Pop Culture Fix: Lauren Morelli Says Sex With Samira Wiley Changed Her Forever, Which Checks Out
Plus: Viola Davis is going to play black queer legend Ma Rainey, Tig Notaro and Reese Witherspoon, 25 Years of My So-Called Life, so much bisexuality on TV, Meryl Streep is going to Prom, and more!
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Also.Also.Also: Send Brittney Griner A Letter Today, “Be Her Strength”
Also: lesbian vampires in pop culture, Dwyane Wade holds it down for his teen daughter Zaya as she moves to legally change her name and gender, and what the hell is Johnny Depp doing in the Fenty show??
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Monday Roundtable: Change Is Good
The first month of the year doesn’t have to be about making big changes, but for a lot of people, it is. In that spirit, here’s the Autostraddle team sharing with you the things they’ve changed in their lives that has meant the biggest improvement.
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Lesbian Visibility Week 2022: Where We Look For Lesbianspiration
This for Lesbian Visibility Day, we are talking about the people we look to for LESBIANSPIRATION. Did you thank a lesbian for changing your life today?
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Also.Also.Also: Molly Kearney Is the First Nonbinary Cast Member to Join “Saturday Night Live”
Congrats to Molly Kearney! Updates on Brittney Griner’s wrongful detainment, including President Biden finally meeting with her wife Cherelle. The Patagonia billionaire gave away all his money to combat climate change.