Results for: Feel good
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We Are All Just Out Here Trying to Cope With These LGBTQ Ikea Couches
“The bisexual couch looks like a threat.”
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Yes, Fundraising Is Part of Our Business Model: Here’s Why
Here are updates to our current financial situation. Still, the essentials of everything we’ve been saying for years are true. Fundraising is a part of our business model!
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Come On Jeff, Get ‘Em: A Day of Work
Carmen suggested once that we become the “Gay Strategist” and I love this idea for us.
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Spaces & Places Community Gallery
As part of our three-week Spaces & Places series, we asked you if we could see your favorite spaces — and wow, did you deliver!
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The Comment Awards Are Remembering to Breathe
“Honestly, my most creative accomplishment this year was recreating the entire movie ‘Labyrinth’ from start to finish on an Animal Crossing island!”
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A Black Woman’s Res(t)istance
“While the work to abolish systems of oppression continues on a large scale, we must care for ourselves in our daily lives.”
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Lez Keep Our Money Gay! Become an A+ Member This Pride!
We’ve never run a member drive during Pride month before, but here we are, trying it! This June, we’d love to leave rainbow capitalism to the heterosexuals and focus on investing in our community year-round.
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Autostraddle Predicted the Future in 2014 🔮 And We Were Spot On
A+ is a key part of the reason Autostraddle can be the way that we are today, and why we can publish what you love.
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TRANSCRIPT: Making the Queer Media You Want to See in the World
We live in a time when you can see yourself reflected in all kinds of media, from all kinds of corporations, who never liked to talk about us before. But when you click on those things, you are giving people money who are not part of our community.
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At One Point, It Saved My Sanity
This is more than a workplace where they’ll notify HR and we’ll all be polite about my pronouns.
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How Do You Scale a Personality Cult?
We do lose something when dedicated queer spaces like Into, Girlfriends and SheWired shutter or AfterEllen goes full TERF, but we also lose something when The Awl, The Hairpin and The Toast do. These were places where writers were free to experiment, to be weird, to make writer-first content that isn’t easily monetizable.
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Call for Submissions: Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination
Here’s what I’m looking for: Short stories, 5,000 words or less. You, the author, must identify as trans. If you think you are trans, you are trans.
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The Comment Awards Are Floating on a Cloud of Gay Subtext
“She’s Lesbian Jesus. I’m afraid what she’ll level up to.”
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I Love Breaking Goals Into Small Steps: A Day of Work
Part of this job is making peace with the fact that I will, in fact, never get everything done that I want to.
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Lesbians! They’re Evergreen
In 2012, a Condé Nast website called style.com published an article with the headline: “IS LESBIAN CHIC HERE TO STAY?” In this thrilling piece of supposed journalism, the writer remarked, “Lesbians! They’re everywhere.”
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Full of Gratitude: A Day of Work
It’s because of the support of A+ members that we are able to take our time writing queer essays about the stories of our culture that matter, instead of fighting with corporate overlords and Google.
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Play This Autostraddle-Themed Spinoff of Wordle for a Good, Gay Time
This version of the internet’s latest favorite word puzzle game features words associated with Autostraddle. And you can play right now!
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Lesbian Visibility Day Roundtable: The Art In Your Lesbian Canon
What is in your lesbian canon? What books, movies and music do you consider essential lesbian material and/or lesbian art that is essential to your own understanding of your identity?
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If Your Dream Only Includes You, It’s Too Small
Heather Hogan noticed that I had taken up permanent residence in the comments of “Boobs on Your Tube” every Friday, basically writing recaps of my own (I felt lost, Autostraddle was my port in the storm). Heather asked if I had ever considered writing about television as a career. She said, “We can pay you. Not as much as we’d like to, but we’ll find the money. Is that something you’d be into?”
I wrote back, “That is something that I would VERY MUCH be into! In fact, I hope it’s not too unprofessional to say that I would love it with all of my heart.”
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Gay Agenda Recap and Transcript: Autostraddle’s Leaders Talk About the Vision!
We’re very serious gay professionals.