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Is Beyoncé Plotting To Drop A New Album and Break The Internet Again?

Odds are good you remember exactly where you were in December 2013, the moment when you realized that Beyoncé had just released an entire album and comprehensive music video collection, completely by surprise.
This time around, maybe Bey’s not quite so sneaky. I see you, Beyoncé. You’re not nearly as clever as you think you are. You think you can just keep releasing entire albums out of nowhere…

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Apps To Satisfy Curious Skygazers

Right before I moved to New York City, I lived in Austin, Texas, for a couple years. Having grown up in upstate New York, there was a little bit of culture shock, sure, but do you know what actually really bothered me? When I looked outside my window, I didn’t know what the names of the plants were. When Google didn’t turn up any useful information, I used to text photos to my mom (who majored…

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Have A Good Halloween?

Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, a segment where four artists take turns delighting you with their whimsy, facts and punchlines on Saturday mornings! Our esteemed cartoon critters are Cameron Glavin, Anna Bongiovanni, Megan Prazenica and Yao Xiao. Today’s cartoon is by Cameron!

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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Lesbian Halloween Hijinks, Top Chef’s Top Top and Telenova Stepmom Sex

Welcome to week three of Boob(s On Your) Tube, your one-stop shop for (nearly) all the LGBTQ TV that happened this week. Thank you for your tips via Twitter and the comments section here on Autostraddle dot com; together we will frolic through this brave new world where queer characters are not hoarded on premium cable or trotted out during sweeps weeks as ratings stunts. It would feel too good…

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The Comment Awards Are Scared Straight (But Not, Ya Know, Straight)

Happy Halloween to you! I hope you’re enjoying a crisp, cool and creepy day and plenty of sweet treats.
Speaking of treats, this week we ranked the 50 best Halloween candies and 25 pumpkin beers. If you’re staying in tonight why not get cozy with your activity partner (or cat, or some mac n’ cheese) and check out some seasonal movies available online? If you’re going out but still looking for…

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The “Book of Life” Gave Me My Anything More

The last words of my father’s eulogy were, “Live so that you can see him again.” It was a call to Christian salvation, as most Baptist eulogies are. It was also a marker of exclusion for those whose bodies had been coded with “ungodliness.” I am one of those. There was a woman in the back pew who had driven eight hours to exorcise my despair, to fill a hotel room with the name of our gods, to…

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GetYrRights: New Site for LGBTQ Youth Organizing Against Policing and Criminalization

Get Yr Rights: A National Know Your Rights Network for LGBTQ Youth (GYR) went live earlier today, providing a platform for LGBTQ youth in the struggle to end policing and criminalization to share Know Your Rights (KYR) information, materials and strategies across the world.
Get Yr Rights was born out of conversations at the Allied Media Conference in 2012 between groups like Streetwise and Safei…

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The Speakeasy Reacts to “Dear White People”

The Speakeasy has quickly become a place where Autostraddle readers that identify as People of Color can go to vent about microaggressions that they encounter on a daily basis in their communities. Microaggressions are defined as “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory or negative…

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Transparent Episode 106 Recap: Act Natural

Welcome back to Transparent, where one family must demonstrate their knowledge of questions about history, geography and mythology and make the final Temple Run in under three minutes and retrieve a valuable artifact from the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Let’s see how they did this week!
We open upon our most favoritest star in the night sky, Josh, who is visiting Maura.
Who’s at the door? Oh.
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Things I Read That I Love #151: I Ate The Dirt Along With The Fruit

HELLO and welcome to the 151st installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can read them too and we can all know more about foodies! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of the site. Here is where…

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Am Milking Every G.D. Second of Halloween

Welcome to the Friday Open Thread, where we process our weekly feelings together in the comments until they come out as rainbow apple cider and/or conversations between the coolest internet wierdos ever. This Friday is a special Friday, of course, BECAUSE IT IS HALLOWEEN OH GOD SO EXCITING HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN.
Did you know when you type Halloween that many times in a row it starts to…

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The A+ Bee Issue Seven: Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid

Happy Halloween, scoobies!
I hope you’re currently drinking cider and watching Hocus Pocus wearing a costume, or maybe your sweatpants! You do you, really. Welcome to a special edition A+ Bee in honor of the most wonderful time of my year, HALLOWEEN! Reader beware, you’re in for a scare.
You can also print out this copy of the Bee and hand it out to trick or treaters! 5/5 dentists recommend it.

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