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Ferguson Protestors Get to Meet With US Attorney Callahan, Although Real Progress Still Hasn’t Come

Ferguson Protestors Get to Meet With US Attorney Callahan, Although Real Progress Still Hasn’t Come

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Feature image via Press TV

When Ferguson protestors marched on to the office of U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan on Tuesday, they expected to face police and possibly arrest instead of an hour-long face-to-face meeting. In spite of the summer heat, dozens of demonstrators marched towards the federal courthouse in the first demonstration after Monday, when Michael Brown’s father called for a day of…

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Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Meg

Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Meg

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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)?

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How To Dye Your Own Hair Every Color You’ve Ever Wanted At Once

How To Dye Your Own Hair Every Color You’ve Ever Wanted At Once

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Following in the footsteps of every uni student cliché before me, as soon as my parents dropped me off in the tiny box that would be my room for my first year out of the family home, I shaved off most of my hair and turned what was left of it purple. I say this casually, as if the process was pain-free and smooth sailing all the way — when in reality my first time had me bent over the sink in…

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A Staggering 70% of Female Scientists Are Sexually Harassed While Doing Fieldwork

A Staggering 70% of Female Scientists Are Sexually Harassed While Doing Fieldwork

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We talk time and time again about the sexism in STEM that keeps women out of top positions and even push them out of the field altogether, and now we have even more data to back that up. A recently published studyreveals another reason why women are continually unrepresented in higher levels of STEM, even if they choose to stay:…

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Also.Also.Also: Pizza Cats Have Hope for India’s LGBTQ and Other Stories We Missed

Also.Also.Also: Pizza Cats Have Hope for India’s LGBTQ and Other Stories We Missed

Hello there, what kind of sport do you play with a wombat, hm??? Oh yes that’s right, WOM. You play wom with a wombat! I’M THE ONLY PERSON WHO LAUGHS AT THIS JOKE and I’m fine with that. Here are the stories we missed while my youngest kid was getting strep throat and Mercury was pretending to be retrograde just to fuck with me.

ok so it's like, imagine alice is holding a wombat and instead of playing croquet, the name of the game is wom. get it?? WOM.

ok so it’s like, imagine alice is holding a wombat, and instead of…

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The Casual Monger: How to Make Simple Herbed Yogurt Cheese

The Casual Monger: How to Make Simple Herbed Yogurt Cheese

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It’s no secret amongst my friend group that I have an obsessive personality. I get fixated on a particular subject, and I have to know all about it. In my curiosity’s history, this has included tree house construction and theory, urban gardening, the Donner Party, literacy rates during the Great War, prostitution rings in pioneer United States, Virginia Woolf’s letters, urban foraging, tapping…

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Fool’s Journey: Ten Tarot Tattoos

Fool’s Journey: Ten Tarot Tattoos

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There’s no denyin’ it, tarot and tattoos go together really well. Like sunsets and mountaintops. Like early morning train journeys and headphones full of Bjork. Like re-reading Written on the Body after a break-up. So many symbols! So many pretty pictures! So many feelings! It’s no surprise that the internet is awash with pictures of dark-arts-body-art and arcane needlework.

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The bad news is that there’s no one who’s going to come and save you on this; no one is going to appear to show you what to do. The good news is that you are your own best and bravest rescuer. When you unearth one thing you didn’t know about yourself, it can be an opportunity to dive in and know all the things you were afraid to. It’s the scariest thing you’ll ever do and the most valuable.
I have to link this again because it’s a great expression of the terror and power in self-knowledge, in knowing that you’re completely responsible for yourself, but that you have been so utterly wrong about something as fundamental as who that was (via haveyouheardaboutfeminism)