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After North Carolina: 9 States Have 14 Anti-Trans Bills in The Works | Autostraddle

Opening the floor for this kind of transphobic debate only preys on people's ignorant fears and perpetuates the kind of untrue stereotypes that have led to a pandemic of violence against trans people, particularly black trans women.

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The Queer How-To Guide For Wedding Plus Ones | Autostraddle

"My goopy brain instantly convinced me that this event would singularly make or break our relationship and that if it went poorly it would be my fault. But I swallowed my anxiety and said yes. Then I immediately started thinking about my outfit."

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My advice for anyone who wants to start their own business is the same as what I say to friends who want to start cutting their own hair: Confidence is key. If you believe you can do it, you can. And if you mess up the back a little, who cares? It’s behind you.

Follow Your Arrow: Photographer Michelle Davidson-Schapiro on Confidence and Caring

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Kourtney Yochum Becomes the 7th Trans Person Murdered This Year, We Find Ourselves Asking the Same Old Questions | Autostraddle

Seven trans people have been killed this year, six trans people of color. That's two every month, and we're not even done with March yet.

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I remember the day I found out that Ilana from Broad City wasn’t biracial. I Googled around until I found evidence that there were others like me: biracial girls who felt a little bit incredulous; just a hair shy of betrayed. To this day I haven’t been able to convince whatever part of my brain that initially projected that identity onto her to unclench.

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Pop Culture Fix: Is Lexa's Death on "The 100" the Beginning of a Lesbian TV Revolution? | Autostraddle

Mainstream media is covering Bury Your Gays for the first time ever. Plus, Evan Rachel Wood takes over Nylon for a day, Mary Louise-Parker and Rachel Griffiths will play wives on your teevee, Roxane Gay's first novel is becoming a movie, and everyone loves Ellen Page's Gaycation.

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Faking It Episode 302 Recap: Is The Universe Telling Karma and Amy To Make Up? | Autostraddle

This week on Faking It, Zita throws a "Surprise Bar Mitzvah" but nobody gets me a gift basket and Karma and Amy debate the pros and cons of squashing this thing and reuniting as "best friends" forever.

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5 Cooking Tips From A Former Kitchen Gadget Engineer | Autostraddle

Working for four and a half years in the quality department at a kitchen gadget company has left me with some strong opinions about proper cooking prep.

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Fool's Journey: Tarot is a Language of Symbols, Here Are Some Starting Points | Autostraddle

Keys and moons, mountains and gateways, lizards and birds... a tarot deck is filled with intriguing images. Here are a few common symbols to help you read between the lines and find the subtler stories hidden in your cards.

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“Instead of putting my disability in a vice grip, accept that it takes up space. Don’t try to defeat it; that is neither possible nor your job. Reconsider the assumption that I don’t want it and...

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No Filter: I've Been Thinking About Kristen Stewart And Soko All Week Long | Autostraddle

An anonymous source recently told Heat Magazine: " likes the idea of dating a non-American again, and Stephanie is very avant-garde and different." Okay! Also, Vin Diesel bought Ruby Rose a bike and Mickey Mouse tried to steal Samira Wiley away from Lauren Morelli.

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All 147 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died | Autostraddle

So many women who've suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.

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Depressing but important.

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Because we need our queer friends. We need the people who give us the space and safety to explore whatever it is we need to explore, without judgement or explanation. And we need those same people, who have been there, who have grappled with it all too, to remind us firmly and tenderly of any precipice they think we might be standing on — romantic or otherwise. We need people who also understand the singular experience of walking through the world as a queer woman. Carol and Abby are in this thing together. They share a perspective, a history, a struggle. They share a context.

Maree, There’s Always Abby: The Radical Queer Friendship at the Center of “Carol” (via fuckyeahautostraddle)

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I’ve been disabled for as long as I’ve been a woman, gay and, y’know, alive. So I don’t even know how it’s possible to “see past” something so fully baked into my experience. Instead, I need you to work a little harder and understand disability as part of my value rather than a caveat on it.

Carrie, Dear Able-Bodied Partner (via fuckyeahautostraddle)

I always felt nauseous trying to force physical intimacy with guys, even though I really liked the guys I dated. They were good guys! The last boyfriend I ever had (again, in my mid-20s), I told him that God told me that he didn’t even want me to do kissing before marriage. Like that God spoke to me the way he did to Moses from the burning bush, but instead of grand plans to free his people from enslavement, God just wanted me to know I shouldn’t put my lips on a boy’s lips. One night my boyfriend tried it anyway, and I threw up on him.
Cricket, it wasn’t Jesus. He hadn’t cast a spell on me to keep me from getting sin-fire in my loins. Possibly he also had not spoken to me to tell me to not to smooch a dude. I was gay, Cricket.

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