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Get Baked: Make-Ahead Overnight Hangover Brunch Extravaganza

Sometimes — often, even! — you want to eat a delicious homemade brunch in your own kitchen, but the actual making of brunch turns out to be an insurmountable obstacle. If you want to eat by 10:30 am on Sunday it means getting up at like 9, and you’re kind of hungover and somebody spilled beer on you last night and also you had that dream where Raven-Symoné didn’t like your haircut, so it’s just…

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Orange is the New Black Episode 208 Recap: The Smell of Appropriately Sized Pots

Hello and welcome to the eighth recap of the second season of Orange is The New Black, a show about what happens after the entire cast of Pretty Little Liars finally gets busted. You might notice that I’m neither your fantasy girlfriend Kate Severance, nor our fearless leader Riese, nor musical heartthrob/ice cream feelings crying cut-offs little dog enthusiast Mal Blum!
Instead you might…

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20 Singaporean Breakfast Foods You Can Savor At Home

Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited! BRUNCH.
In Singapore we play…

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When It Comes To Orgasms, Research Shows Lesbians Are Tops

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“Orgasm,” begins the newest paper from the researchers the Kinsey Institute, “is characterized by subjective feelings of intense sensation and pleasure, including a sudden discharge of accumulated erotic tension at sexual climax and a temporarily altered state of consciousness.” It’s a rather dry opening to some pretty juicy new research about how men and women in…

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Okay Wow Let’s Process “The Fosters” Right Now

Anyone else walk out of the last 10 seconds of the mid-season finale of The Fosters last night? Just me? I literally screamed, “No! No! No!” at the TV and stormed out to the kitchen and then I came back in and wailed, “Whhhhhhyyyyyyyy?!” because this was apparently the worst thing that happened to me all day. But we’ll get to that later…
If you have been watching Season 2 of The Fosters, you know…

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Sweating in Sweatpants: A Brunchventure

Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited! BRUNCH.
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It Was a Sailor Moon Weekend at Otakon 2014

From August 8-10, I got the chance to attend my third Otakon, the USA’s second-largest anime convention, in Baltimore, MD. The gathering of 30,000+ anime fans from around the world meant a large list of panels, premieres, guest appearances and other activities to whet the otaku appetite for three days. For me, it was a chance to meet many of my online friends in-person for the first time, and to observe how things have changed since my first two Otakon experiences. It’s interesting to see once-popular series fall by the wayside, while others that used to be rare are now everywhere.

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New Jersey School District Accommodates Trans Teen After Their Initial Awfulness

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A 13-year-old transgender girl in Middletown, New Jersey still isn’t sure where she’ll attend school this fall just days before the semester begins.
Rachel Pepe is transitioning after years of depression and panic attacks. She speaks eloquently on her own behalf and has the support of her mom and, if this video from the Asbury Park Press is any indication,…

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Inflexible Scheduling Just Another Way Women Are Discriminated Against At Work

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I quit my first job after one of the managers locked me out of the work schedule for three weeks as punishment for going out of town at the last minute to visit my father, who had moved out of state for work while I was finishing high school. I wasn’t happy about it — I liked my job, coworkers and most of the management, and it was rewarding to step toward…

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VIDEO: Vee From “Orange Is The New Black” Sneaking Up On People

This season, Orange is the New Black introduced us to Vee, an unstoppable sociopath who shook up the power dynamic of Litchfield in a major way. She was the perfect villain — cool, calculating, manipulative and seemingly un-fuck-with-able.
Unfortunately, after a while I found it really hard to take Vee seriously, because she is constantly eeeevilly slipping in and out of hallways like some kind…

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Top Ten Brunch Hacks That Will Save Your Life

Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited! BRUNCH.
I’m no brunch expert…

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Outside Lands 2014: A Photo Diary Straight From the Trees

I grew up at music festivals. From the little backyard “festivals” in downtown Los Angeles to Coachella, I went to as many as I could (whether I could afford it or if I could sneak in). I somehow had never been to Outside Lands. It takes place in the heart of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, pulling 180,000 guests into the trees. Like most festivals nowadays, you wander between the music, the…

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