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Brittani’s Team Pick: Depressed Lesbian Comic, “Live from Lombard”

Brittani’s Team Pick:
Friend of cats and comedian Mo Welch has been steadily releasing a series called Live from Lombard via her Instagramfor a couple of months. The comic is a simple one panel drawing of a depressed lesbian named Blair and arose from the month she spent living with her mom and stepdad in Lombard, Illinois. It’s infinitely relatable/funny and a welcome addition to my Instagram…

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1 Queer Girl + 10-Day LGBTQ Film Festival + 20 Tons of Popcorn = These Movies You Need To Watch

For 10 days every year, I clear my evening and weekend schedule for the ImageOut: the Rochester LGBTQ Film Festival. ImageOut is the largest film festival in Rochester, NY and the biggest LGBTQ film festival in New York State. This year there were 39 programs and 65 films, which believe-it-or-not is actually fewer programs than in years past. My spouse and I have been festival-goers since we…

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signal boost!! looking for LGBTQ trans women in relationships, especially TWOC, for a post!

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Hi! I’m working on an article for autostraddle.com highlighting relationships between women where at least one of the women is a trans woman. It’s going to be similar to this piece about QTPOC couples. If you fit that description or you know someone who does, please contact me at mey@autostraddle.com.

I’m especially looking for twoc because right now, most of the trans women I’m in contact with are white.

An Incomplete Guide to the 2014 Midterm Elections: Seriously, You Need To Know This Shit

It’s time for everyone’s favorite time of the year — Halloweeen! But then, also, Election Day! On November 4th of this year, you won’t get to vote on a new President, but you will get to help make crucial decisions about who your state and local representatives and officials are, which is something that might affect your life even more than who’s in the White House. We’ve talked before about how…

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A Multimedia Meditation on Keira Knightley Kissing Her Female Prom Date

Everybody sit down. We’ve just received an urgent news wire from across the pond with some devastating, vital information: In the early 2000s, Keira Knightley took a girl to prom and they kissed.
Yes, this Keira Knightley:
Via We Heart It
In an interview with Variety, the actress said,
We both turned up an hour late, and I’d been filming Bend It Like Beckham, and I turned up in leather pants and…

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You Deserve a Damn Raise: 5 Tips to Make It Happen

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It took a long time for me to learn how to ask for what I wanted at work. I spent the first 5 or so years of my working life being adorably naive; I had this super cute whimsical notion that employers would just hand over extra cash the moment it’d been earned, simply because they seemed like nice dudes and that would be The Right Thing To Do. LOL, right.…

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Tim Cook Is Gay: Apple CEO Officially Comes Out

Yes, people have been talking about Tim Cook being gay forever. He was never secretive about it (like when he gave a speech about gay rights at his alma mater). He just hadn’t said “I’m gay” with his own mouth in a public place or to a media outlet. So that left him in a really nebulous place, media-wise.Do we talk about the fact that he is a super powerful, super smart homogay computer…

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Lez Liberty Lit #58: We Have Always Lived In The Bookshelf

Scratch magazine held a conversation about how writers of color are affected by race and class privilege in publishing:
“I would say what’s happening in some of the larger publishing companies is that they’re publishing fewer books generally than they have in the past, and so they’re trying to publish those to audiences that they think they have mastered, they’ve already identified. And there’s…

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Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Becky

Welcome to Interviews With My Ex-Girlfriend, in which Autostraddle writers get back in touch with their ex-girlfriends to ask them Five Simple Questions:
1. How long did we date?
2. Why did we break up?
3. What did you learn from our relationship?
4. What do you miss most about me?
5. Would you invite me to your wedding (why/why not)?
A long time ago in a land far away (early 2008-ish), I met a…

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Brrr, It’s Cold Out There: 4 Looks to Usher In Sweater Weather

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Well folks, that chilly breeze is undeniable at this point. I’m always resistant to accepting that WINTER IS COMING but the fact of the matter is, I can’t escape it. My remedy for this: a column about winter wardrobe necessities. ‘Cause the freezin’ winds will be a little easier to bear if we’re lookin’ good, right?
My resistance to the chill of…

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"Is She Gay? Should I Ask Her?": Advice To Moms Who Have Queer Daughters