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Also.Also.Also Dolly Parton Wants You to Tweet about Nigeria and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Three important media campaigns, two exciting films, one heartbreaking report on the status of female prisoners, and much more.
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In Which We Are Accused Of Being “Cosmo For Queers”
“Her argument is actually an inversion of what our real editorial and financial realities have been.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Charleston, South Carolina
Get to know the Lowcountry!
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Love Isn’t All You Need: Michigan Woman Assaulted After Her Same-Sex Wedding
The attack of this woman just nine days after she made her girlfriend her wife in the eyes of the law brings into sharp relief the problem with the LGBT movement focusing so intensely on marriage.
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For All The Girls I Loved Before I Knew I Could
Kelly cut off all her hair and started dating Katie. I started chasing around after a guy who looked like Ellen DeGeneres and trying to make sense of the mess in my brain.
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Ginger Ale, Outlets, and Crying: Our Travel Rituals in Roundtable Form
From packing to arrivals and back home again, we’ve all got our own way of doing things. In this roundtable, some of Autostraddle’s finest editors share theirs.
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American Horror Story 310 Recap: The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks
Welcome to the tenth episode of American Horror Story, the show that got Stevie Fucking Nicks to appear in a move that was clearly a work of powerful magic!
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Lez Liberty Lit #45: Saved By The Bell Jar
Unknown female beat poets, lesbian historical fiction, the problem with essays, reading more, the answer to the question “how much gay sex should a novel have?” and more.
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Obama’s State Of The Union Respects Women, Wants You To Have More Money
If all goes according to his plan (and it very well may not) this will be a year of leaps and bounds for many of the Americans who felt left behind in 2013. Women, people of color and those living in poverty could all benefit from Obama’s plans to use executive orders rather than waiting on a gridlocked Congress to pass anything to his desk.
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BPM: Yuna and a French 75
Yuna (full name Yunalis Mat Zara’ai) uses a lot of synth instruments in her music to layer with a voice that is so sweet and delicate, but not overly saccharine. You really just can’t help but smile and it doesn’t hurt that she’s super super adorable.
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You Should Go: Staceyann Chin and Anna/Kate Performing In NYC
Poet and playwright Staceyann Chin and queer folk-pop duo Anna/Kate are performing at the Women Center Stage Festival this Friday night!
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The Radtastic Black Lesbians Who Changed LGBT History and Our Lives
“As this Black History Month winds down, let’s remember that reclaiming histories is not a one-shot deal. Let’s take time to be thankful for these lesbians who kept it queer and kept it real.”
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Data After Death: A Digital Will for a Digital Age
More of our lives are lived digitally by the day, and it’s time to start thinking about what happens to all this when we die: do we want it to go to someone else, to be erased, or to remain indefinitely in the ether(net)?
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State of the Struggle: First Come LGBT Legal Protections, Then Comes Marriage
The new Momentum Report from the Movement Advancement Project proves that gay marriage is just the tip of the iceberg. How is the LGBT community doing when it comes to everything else?
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MTV’s “Faking It” Is Pretty Good, For Real
Turns out those irritating trailers were just Trojan Horses delivering a cute show with a queer female lead to all of us here on The Isle of Lesbos.
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5 Things to Know About Prison Abolition and the Prison Industrial Complex
The criminal justice system in the United States is a fucked up institution that is every kind of -ist you can think of. Lots of people are working to fight it.
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Things I Read That I Love #117: Strangely, Our Outfits Match The Volkswagen.
Topics include Edie Windsor, Party Monster, anxiety, the prison hunger strike, sorority vs. lesbians, growing up in a missionary family, HealthCare.gov and moar!
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 17: The Galileo Seven (Logic v. Emotion Cage Match)
“I can neither enjoy the idea of command, nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists.”
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Jason Collins Signs With Brooklyn Nets, Becomes NBA’s First Openly Gay Player
Jason Collins has signed a 10-Day contract with the Brooklyn Nets, making his the first openly gay NBA player and after tonight, the first out athlete to play in one of the USA’s four major professional leagues.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: My Top Five Beautiful Things in Science
At its core, science is a willingness to believe that the universe is knowable. That if we ask the right questions and follow the evidence, we can get to the bottom of how things are, and why.