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It’s easy to have a lot of mixed expectations, feelings, nerves, hopes, excitement, boredom, dread and dreams around first dates. Sometimes all at once! Here’s how to have a good first date. + Lower your expectations + Save talking for the date +...

It’s easy to have a lot of mixed expectations, feelings, nerves, hopes, excitement, boredom, dread and dreams around first dates. Sometimes all at once! Here’s how to have a good first date.

+ Lower your expectations

+ Save talking for the date

+ Pick the right locations

+ It’s okay if it’s a little awkward

+ Be your real self

+ Follow your feelings

How to Go on a First Date That Doesn’t Suck

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Proud Mary is yet another example of Hollywood putting limitations on what black women can do on-screen. The premise buries Mary in pathos in a way that movies about white female assassins—like the aforementioned Atomic Blonde and other entries from the Theron canon like Aeon Flux—do not. Henson has the charisma and physical presence to be a huge action star, and Proud Mary should have been that vehicle.
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“Grown-ish” Is Here, Queer and Even Better Than We Hoped

Somewhere between Zoey’s orientation visit to California University on black-ish and the debut of grown-ish last week on Freeform, the writers decided to make her imperfect — and that’s…

“When Zoey Johnson returns to college this time, it feels like the show has grown into its own identity. Zoey’s still the naive, impeccably coiffed freshman, but there’s an edge to her this time. We get to see her make bad decisions, be judged for those bad decisions and face the occasional consequence. She’s not without flaws anymore and, as a result, it’s easier for the audience to see themselves in Zoey’s messy evolution.“

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+ What is a dental dam? + How can they be sexy? + Where do you buy them? + Who uses them? Welcome to Lesbian Sex 101, Autostraddle’s series on how to have lesbian sex for queer women and anyone who finds this information applicable to their bodies or...

+ What is a dental dam?

+ How can they be sexy?

+ Where do you buy them?

+ Who uses them?

Welcome to Lesbian Sex 101, Autostraddle’s series on how to have lesbian sex for queer women and anyone who finds this information applicable to their bodies or sexual activities. Sex ed almost never includes queer women or our experiences, so with this series we’re exploring pleasure, safety, relationships and more to make that information more accessible.

What Are Dental Dams, and How Do They Work?

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“There were two Golden Globes ceremonies last night. One where men went about their business as usual, answering inane and unobtrusive questions on the red carpet before proceeding inside to collect most of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s...

“There were two Golden Globes ceremonies last night. One where men went about their business as usual, answering inane and unobtrusive questions on the red carpet before proceeding inside to collect most of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s trophies. And then there was the other ceremony, coordinated by the Time’s Up initiative, that saw nearly every woman on the red carpet wearing black, with many of them trading out their husbands, partners and parents for dates with activists, to whom they gladly handed over their microphones when they were stopped by cameras and entertainment reporters,” Heather Hogan, “2018 Golden Globes Winners: Oprah and the Simmering Rage of Women”

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fuckyeahautostraddle: “ Tig Notaro is a masculine-of-center middle-aged lesbian, which is something we never get to see on TV for starters, and we get to see her navigate falling in love and actually getting the girl. The series is so heartbreaking...
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Tig Notaro is a masculine-of-center middle-aged lesbian, which is something we never get to see on TV for starters, and we get to see her navigate falling in love and actually getting the girl. The series is so heartbreaking and it’s so sweet and it filled me with so much hope, which was a real feat for any piece of art in 2017. -Heather,   Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Women TV Characters of 2017

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I want more conversations that help us connect and unite across identity barriers. This is an era when we must, must revive alliances. I came out in Eugene, Oregon, in the 1970s, and the importance of alliances was one of the first lessons I learned. It has never seemed so relevant to me as it does now,” says Dr. Queen.

She would know. Key to her work in sexual justice is understanding the diversity of identities and “sexual possibilities” through education and advocacy, especially in “respect[ing] each person where they are and helping them appreciate their own point in the diversity mix.” “This is important because too many people have been taught there is only one way to be, and honestly don’t understand they may have their own unique sexuality,” she explains.


“I don’t see the basic underlying activism or kinds of sex as fundamentally different, mostly, but discourse about sex is out of the box and so many issues have been more or less mainstreamed that it’s striking,” she says. “It means more and more people potentially are exposed to the idea that sex, relationship and gender possibilities are many and varied; communities exist; normative ideas can be oppressive and sex/gender/relationship are not ‘one size fits all’ constructs. This is mildly interesting for some people and a matter of life and death for others.

“The Alternative Is Awful”: Sexual Justice Pioneer Carol Queen On Why Sexual Justice Needs To Evolve
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