Results for: women of colour
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Queer Girl City Guide: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is a historic city with the Celtic charm expected of Nova Scotia, overflowing with arts, culture, music and bars, so many bars. As it’s the biggest city in the Maritimes region of Canada, lots of queers from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI make the pilgrimage to our seaside city.
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Team Pick: Genius Young Women Create Feminist Superhero Trading Cards To Fight Racism and Gossip
Sarah’s Team Pick: A Grrlz Club has made female superheroes to fight against racism, “nerd discrimination”, and gossip and it’s the best thing ever.
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NSFW Sunday Is Reviewing Sex Party Etiquette
This week on NSFW Sunday: why porn for women isn’t like Bic For Her, height differences, asexuality and more.
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Crush Of The Week: Meshell Ndegeocello
“Between her bass playing, her come-to-me smoky voice, her gender-bending outfits, and (at the time) bald head, I swoonily followed her through her musical universe as she had some shooting-star hits.”
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Lesbian Film “Blue is the Warmest Color” Wins Cannes Palme D’Or, And Not Just Because of The Sex Scene
Despite worries that its content would turn off judges, an explicit lesbian romance took the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The Queen’s Commonwealth Charter and What It Really Means for the LGBTQI Population
March 11th was Commonwealth Day! The Queen did some stuff to celebrate: most notably, she signed an equal rights charter, which is the first time in her 61-year reign that she’s publicly supported gay rights.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Prairie Homo Racisms
Since I easily dismissed the strange looks people gave my white mom and her three brown-skinned little kids and the questions about where I was from as just ignorant things people said, I grew up not very aware of racism and micro-aggressions. I didn’t think of myself as black or as white.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Prairie Homo Spring
This spring, as you shed all the layers of winter, it’s important to love your prairie homo skin and not feel bad about its colour, its stretch marks, or whom or what it responds to.
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Read a F*cking Zine: 50 Zines by Queer People of Color
POC Zine Project presents a massive list of zines, plus info on where you can get them and so much more. Zines for days!
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Get Baked: Brown Sugar Apples
Very simple, yet very delicious.
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Buffy (and Other Strong Female Characters) Are Saving the World Offscreen, Too
As it turns out, watching strong women kick ass is good for society and your mental health.
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Sunday Funday Means Business As Usual for the Queen and the Queers
Totally Homosexual Gay LESBIAN Marriage. Famous People. Puppies. This is the first day of the rest of your life.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: 5 Prairie Homo Writers You Should Know
Welcome to the latest instalment of A Prairie Homo Companion, in which I proudly inform you that the prairie homo literary movement is indeed here, queer, and fantastic.
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Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems: Canada Whitewashes the New $100 Bill
The Bank of Canada of going back to the drawing board after a focus group decided that the scientist on the $100 bill looked “too Asian.”
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Queer City Guide: Perth, Western Australia
“There are heaps of places to hang out and meet likeminded “Perthonalities.” Not to mention the beaches and forests here are goddamn beautiful.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Toronto, Canada
“Put in the effort, put yourself out there and you will be rewarded with a really, really good time!”
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Queer Girl City Guide: London, Baby!
London can be brutal when the rent is due, but also incredibly exciting, creative, glittery and beautiful any day of the week.
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Autostraddle’s Women of Color Ask: What Does WOC Mean To Me?
“When I see lesbian couple after lesbian couple with not only matching haircuts and clothes but matching skin colours, I feel alone.”
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New App Helps Overthinkers Get A Date
Four questions. You can handle four questions. Especially when one of them is, “What’s your name?”
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Snow is a Gender-Neutral Pronoun
I started feeling cold around the time I started feeling self-conscious.