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The Comments Awards Are Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

Hello springboks! We’ve spent seven more days traveling through the universe together so it’s time again for another roundup of Autostraddle posts and comment highlights.
This week was pretty great because SCOTUS put marriage equality on the agenda for their conference at the end of the month and “lesbian badass” Megan Smith was named Obama’s new Chief Technology Officer. Also, the Root 100 list…

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Perfume, Pastry, and Pastry Perfume

Hello junebugs! I hope you had a magnificent week, because it’s Friday Open Thread time and I’m dying to hear what you’ve been up to! Bokchoy is too.
Yes, that was a wink.
Last Saturday, my girlfriend and I went to a perfumerie. They had hundreds of essential oils and fragrance oils in dropper bottles lined up along the walls, with cupfuls of coffee beans to smell in between. I picked out…

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Rhymes With Witches: Lumpy Space Princess

Think you’re too old and too cool to watch cartoons? What if I told you there’s a cartoon that is both visually stunning, giggle inducing, AND feminist? Look no further than Cartoon Network’s cacophony of sights and sounds known by toddlers to grown ass people alike as Adventure Time. Since its debut in 2010 Adventure Timehas become a worldwide sensation. What’s not to love about a show that…

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Things I Read That I Love #144: We Say No Because We Are Grumpy and Have Not Slept Properly

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HELLO and welcome to the 144th 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 Who Framed Roger Rabbit! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I…

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It’s Your Big Chance To Win An A+ Membership

It’s been a few weeks since we launched Autostraddle Plus, a program that enables our readers to support our ongoing existence in exchange for some fun perks. We’ve published two issues of The Autostraddle Insider, chock full of the witty, weird shit we say in our Skype chats and office reply-all; three issues of the A+ Bee, which is all about you, you, YOU and inspired by the daily newspaper…

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In Which Mari and Mey Have Conflicted Feelings About Trans Terminology and “New York Magazine”

Being a trans woman is complicated. It can seem like every day you have to deal with things that are anything but black and white. There’s the media’s portrayal of trans people, terminology, the entire concept of “passing” — and that’s just scratching the surface. Luckily, you have Mari and Mey to talk out their conflicted feelings on these things.
This time, we took a look at the recent front…

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GoFundMe’s New Policy Bans Campaigns Involving Abortions, Drugs and “Sorcery”

Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has been in the news a lot recently for the controversial campaigns that it allows, including a fundraiser for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who killed Michael Brown. Last week, it pulled a number of campaigns, saying that they contained “subject matter that GoFundMe would rather not be associated with.” One of the pages taken down belonged to a Chicago…

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Do I Hear Wedding Bells? SCOTUS Puts Marriage Equality on the Agenda

The U.S. Supreme Court must have noticed those passive-aggressive love notes and ring hints we’ve been leaving all over the house, because it looks like SCOTUS is ready to take up marriage again.
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The justices have scheduled same-sex marriage cases from five states for consideration at their September 29th private conference, the first…

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Brittani’s Video Party: The Parents of Straight People Want You to Smile

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This September PRIDE is coming to select theaters and if you like movies about two unlikely groups coming together than I guess you should probably see it. It’s based on a the true story of a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists that traveled to a small mining village in Wales to raise money for the National Union of Mineworkers while they were on strike.
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Badass Lesbian Latina Detective Renee Montoya is Coming to Your TV This Fall on “Gotham”

Detective Renee Montoya, along with the probably queer villain Harley Quinn, is one of the few characters created for Batman: The Animated Series that was popular and well-written enough to make the jump to the comics. Now she’s making another jump, this time back to TV, as she’ll be playing a prominent role in this fall’s new show Gotham, where she’ll be played by actress Victoria Cartegena.
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Strict Voter ID Laws Once Again Rear Ugly Head, Could Disenfranchise Thousands of Trans Voters

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About 24,000 transgender people whose state identification does not match their gender live in the 10 states with new, strict photo ID requirements at the polls, and they may have a tough time getting their votes counted this November.
The Williams Institute at UCLA found that 84,000 transgender individuals are eligible to vote in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,…

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Gabby Wants Badass QTPOC Couples For An Autostraddle Post

i’m currently working on a post highlighting QTPOC couples. Both or all individuals involved in the relationship need to identify as POC and that that includes multiracial queers and folks from any non-white backgrounds. The post is a mix of famous, internet famous, and couples we know. I’m trying to make the list as inclusive and exhaustive as possible. If you have any tips you can contact me: Gabby@autostraddle!

Dear Queer Diary: We Are What We Read

If there’s one thing I love more than journaling, it’s reading. And if journaling is a warm and crusty baguette, it seems like reading should be a nice wedge of Trader Joe’s brie — these are clearly a) two great tastes that taste great together and/or b) the ingredients for a night of extremely classy romance.
This outrageously attractive couple met at Trader Joe’s, and although I don’t know for…

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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Meet Maki Yamazaki, Your New Favourite Nerdy Queer Non-Monogamousaurus

Happy Thursday! Did you wake up today thinking g-d, I really wish I knew more about Britain’s trans folks? Of course you did. Were you specifically looking for a human with great hair and the ability to play more musical instruments than you have piercings in your right ear? Of course you were.
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Meet Maki Yamazaki, a games developer, musician and comic artist living…

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