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We have a lot of feelings about parents and a lot of feelings about clothes. Both are intimately connected to our sense of who we are and who we want to become, and both can be a struggle, especially when we’re negotiating queer identities. It can be particularly significant, then, to wear the clothes our parents wore — to see who we become. Does it bring us…
Last year, I put almost every dime of my [tax] refund into paying my student loans, aka the U.S. government’s strip club fund.
Here’s their Oh Wow So I’m Starting All Over Again I Guess Playlist.
South Carolina Punishes Universities for LGBT Reading List with Extra Dose of America
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As a punishment for spending university resources on LGBT-themed reading material, two state-funded South Carolina schools are being required to teach about the United States founding documents. The University of South Carolina Upstate had the audacity to include Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic on its optional freshman reading list,…
And Now, Every Character From “Orange Is The New Black” As They Appear On “Law And Order”
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away from Litchfield Penitentiary, there was a magical world called New York City in the 90s. People called actors lived there, and those people had a really hard time landing huge jobs in film, television or theatre that consistently paid them a lot of money. To supplement their income, or just to boost their careers, many actors took bit roles on a glorious…
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: All Tesla’s Electric Car Patents Are Belong To You
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In a dramatic move last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced that the electric car company is opening up its patents for use by other manufacturers. Breaking the news online in a blog post titled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You,” Musk wrote,
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling…
Lorraine Hansberry Liked, Hated, and was Bored with Being a Les
Brittani’s Team Pick:“Raisin in the Sun?” What are your thoughts. It doesn’t matter. Because Lorraine Hansberryherself was bored to death of it. So much so that she included it on her “I AM BORED TO DEATH WITH:” list. Now one of my greatest fears is that I will die unexpectedly and all of the random/weird/embarrassing slips of paper I have floating around my room, thrown in folders of keepsakes,…
Fool’s Journey: Create Your Own Tarot Spread
You don’t have to be an experienced tarot reader to create your own spreads — in fact, I think it’s good to practice creating your own spreads right at the start of your tarot journey.
Crafting spreads builds confidence and helps you to remember that you’re learning tarot your way, nobody else’s. Plus it means you can always come up with your own special approach to all those crazy-ass questions…
Also.Also.Also. Migrant Women Celebrate LGBT History and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Hello, superstars! This week my computer spontaneously shut down for no reason, and then tried to restart itself four times! Here’s the news we missed while I was freaking out about a potential technological disaster.
LGBTQ Legislation+ Denmark became the first country to stop requiring a diagnosis of “gender identity disorder” for people seeking to change their gender on official documents.
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Playlist: Oh Wow So I’m Starting All Over Then I Guess
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Sometimes you’ve already decided what the rest of your life is going to look like and then something happens, like, for example, the breakup of a very long relationship with another human, and then you’re like oh wow, okay then, I should figure out some new plans?Except not immediately, obviously, because that is just too much to handle in general. Instead you…
Alabama Court Enters 21st Century, Strikes Down State Ban on Gay Sex
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On Friday, a court in Alabama ruled unconstitutional part of a state “sexual misconduct” law effectively outlawing gay sex. The unanimous ruling, handed down Friday in a state appeals court, was the first in the state to address that law since Lawrence v. Texas the 2003 Supreme Court decision that found consensual sex bans in violation of the Constitution.
It…
22 New Emoji That Are Apparently More Important Than A Taco
You’ve already heard that we’re getting new emoji. Which is great! It’s so great. That much richer a vocabulary to transcribe Tori Amos songs with! I am loath to complain about this critical communication breakthrough for all people laying in their beds trying to describe the depth and magnitude of their hangover without using words, but I have to, because there is still no taco emoji. (I realize…
