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Unalterable: Laying Down My Sword in the Battle Against Myself

Unalterable: Laying Down My Sword in the Battle Against Myself

I was climbing the stairs of my elementary school shortly after the summer holidays, when I felt a hard smack against my sunburned back. I recall the sting and the boy who ran past me saying “gimp.” I was very confused. I had never heard this word before and did not know what it implied. I knew that he had said it with disgust and the slap had meant to hurt. I had been taking the stairs one at a…

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Also.Also.Also. Janet Mock is Re-Queering Documentaries and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Also.Also.Also. Janet Mock is Re-Queering Documentaries and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Hello, friendly neighborhood superheroes! This week I started bringing my Spider-Man lunchbox to work and no one made fun of me.  Here’s the news we missed while I was refusing to be a grownup.

Celebrating and Recognizing Some Awesome Trans People

+ Following Laverne Cox’s feature on the cover of TIME (and a prominent but problematic feature article), the magazine released a list of 21…

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via Can’t Go Home Again: Tacos, Grief and Growing Up Without Tamale House

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The Fool’s Journey: Starting A Tarot Journal And What The Heck To Put In It

The Fool’s Journey: Starting A Tarot Journal And What The Heck To Put In It

Got yourself a brand new notebook just for Tarot School?

Let’s put something in it!

Unless you have the memory of an elephant and/or for some reason Don’t Like Journals (methinks you might be on the wrong website) then you’re gonna want to be recording your adventures as you learn and develop as a tarot reader.

Once you start to feel really confident with your cards, it’s really interesting to go…

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Style is Style: Spring Showers (Or Layering As We Know It)

Style is Style: Spring Showers (Or Layering As We Know It)

The time has come: it’s officially warm(ish) here on the Wet Coast. I’ve reached that awkward in-between-seasons moment in my wardrobe. Sometimes overcast, sometime wet and dreary and at times weirdly balmy? This haphazard weather makes for a complicated daily dilemma and each morning is a meteorological surprise. Yay.

So what’s an Autostraddler to do? As much as I’d love to travel with my own…

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filling out job apps and I needed a playlist.

I looked at autostraddle’s 8track playlists and there was one entitled “Get a Fucking Job”.

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Driving back home I ask “why do the moments have to end?”

and Allison says, “to make room for new ones.”

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pantomime laugh-off #autostraddlecamp

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THAT IS CLEA DUVALL YOU GUYS. WE MET HER AT TRADER JOES ON THE WAY TO CAMP. IT WAS THE BESTTTTTTTTTTTT. 

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foxfire forever

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Gallup And Everyone Else Wants to Know: Were You Born This Gay?

Gallup And Everyone Else Wants to Know: Were You Born This Gay?

In a poll released on Wednesday, Gallup found that 42% of Americans believe homosexual people are born homosexuals, rather than becoming so due to factors such as upbringing and environment. 37% voiced the opposite opinion, and another 21% didn’t answer. Nobody asked me, but if they had, I’d have responded with some questions of my own: why are those the only options? How come you’re asking…

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2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced, Include Alison Bechdel, Imogen Binnie and More

2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced, Include Alison Bechdel, Imogen Binnie and More

The winners of the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards, including Alison Bechdel, Susan Choi, Nicole J. Georges, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Katherine V. Forrest, Imogen Binnie and others, were announced last night at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York.

This year is the first that comics have had a category to themselves, though they’ve won in other categories previously. Calling Dr.…

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I haven’t done any craft projects in ages, so thank you to Hansen at Autostraddle for inspiring these mini banners. The Duty Free one is an old dance joke between me and a friend.