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Halloween

Do Your Part: Carly and Robin as Gomez and Morticia Addams, Halloween 2013

“I can’t believe Carly and Robin haven’t done that already.” (There’s a change.org petition we need you to sign. This is important business.)

Stef October 18, 2013 27 Comments
Money + Work

Dear Queer Diary: She’s Making a List, Checking It Twice

Writing a list in your journal is like playing Scattergories without the long and tense bouts of familial arguing.

Maggie October 17, 2013 21 Comments
Health

High Femme: Pick a Strain, Any Strain

You want to get high, but what kind of high are you after? Let’s talk about the two main strains of cannabis available today: Cannabis Sativa and Cannabis Indica.

Chelsea October 15, 2013 43 Comments
School

Teach Me Your Ways: The Teachers Who Helped Make Us Queer

Many of us were lucky enough to have teachers who didn’t make us queer as such, but they did help make it a little easier on us, sometimes even before we knew it about ourselves. Here’s to them.

the team October 11, 2013 24 Comments
Money + Work Sponsored

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Vanessa October 4, 2013 4 Comments
Health

Loving Your Body in the Age of Patriarchy

“As a woman of color who does not fit into Western Eurocentric standards of what is conventionally attractive, every day I step out and love myself is an act of resistance.”

Sam September 30, 2013 25 Comments
Travel

Queer Girl City Guide: Burlington, VT

It’s a difficult task to find a place that isn’t gay-friendly. It’s Vermont, you guys. You want to know where the gaybourhood is? Burlington is the gaybourhood.

Lettie September 20, 2013 24 Comments
Health

The Out2Enroll Campaign Wants To Help You Get Awesome Health Coverage

As the countdown to the Affordable Care Act continues, 1/3 of LGBT Americans are uninsured! This campaign wants to change that.

Cara September 17, 2013 5 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Get Baked: Bulkas (Yeast Buns), A South African Jewish Tradition

Let’s make bulkas together in anticipation of breaking the Yom Kippur fast on Saturday evening. This recipe includes a photo of Vanessa as a small child, a short instructional video, and an until-now top secret family recipe. L’chaim!

Vanessa September 11, 2013 39 Comments
Parenting & Family Shopping

6 Kids’ Clothing Lines That Know Your Daughter is More Than Just a Pink Princess Glitterbomb Who Can’t Do Math

Now that back to school sales are in full swing, it’s hard to look through clothing catalogs without becoming irate. Here are some retailers that don’t think your kids are damsels in distress.

Kristen September 6, 2013 35 Comments
Jewish Holidays Recipes

Get Baked: The Best Honey Cake For Rosh Hashanah (Or Any Time!)

L’shanah tovah to all the Jewish queers out there! This is the perfect honey cake to make to celebrate a sweet new year (and actually it’s delicious all year round, too).

Vanessa September 5, 2013 30 Comments
Money + Work

Underneath His Bustle: An Insider On How Everyone’s Most Resented “Feminist” Website Actually Began

“So what makes you qualified to work for me? No offense, but you don’t look like someone who will cry if she can’t get her hands on the latest Gucci purse.”

Cara August 23, 2013 33 Comments
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Defining For My Own “Right” Way To Be A Mom

“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”

Dana Rudolph August 20, 2013 11 Comments
Money + Work

Bustle.com Conjures Every Terrible Feeling Women in Media Have About Women’s Media

A man decided it was time for a “women’s publication that puts world news and politics alongside beauty tips.” He got $6.5 million to make it happen. When the women who work in women’s media found out, everyone’s head exploded.

Rachel August 15, 2013 74 Comments
Health

Judge Rules Casino Waitresses Are “Sex Objects” First, Employees Second

Or as he says, “…for the individual labeled a “babe” to become a sex object requires that person’s participation.”

Laura Mandanas August 5, 2013 8 Comments
Health

Tampons, Chocolate and “Massagers”: Welcome to the World of Boxes for Your Box

For those days when your uterus is like “REMEMBER ME?” and you have zero tampons in your purse and your Midol bottle is empty and there is no ice cream in the freezer and SHIT IS ABOUT TO GET REAL.

Laurie August 1, 2013 48 Comments
Health

Hello Flo’s Adorable Tampon Ad Is Cute and Funny, Free of White Yoga Pants

“For these campers, I was their Joan of Arc. It’s like, I’m Joan, and their vag is the ark.”

A.E. Osworth July 30, 2013 18 Comments
Health

Hey, You Can Put Away Your Razors Next Month

Or don’t. Armpits4August doesn’t mind whether you preen your pits or not, as long as you’re willing to talk about it and PCOS.

Kristen July 26, 2013 35 Comments
School

Nita’s College Lesbianage: I’m Gonna Be Alright

“It was the last day of my last semester of my first year of college, and I was crying because I’d failed. I wasn’t going to continue in the interpreting degree.”

Nita July 23, 2013 7 Comments
School

Claire’s College Lesbianage: This Place Is Not For Me

“At Wellesley, I was never homesick. Not even in the dead of winter, when Boston was buried in snow and Phoenix was at its most palatable, did I miss home.”

Claire July 19, 2013 9 Comments
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