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Today, the world found out that hurricanes aren’t actually dangerous if they have Lady Names instead of Dude Names! Just kidding, they’re EXACTLY AS DANGEROUS, you gormless paste-eating idiots. That’s why they keep KILLING SO MANY PEOPLE, because a bunch of shitbirds are too stupid and misogynistic to realize that anything could still be deadly once they’ve slapped cartoon eyelashes onto it in their heads. Once we recovered from how mindblowingly stupid this is — you know, that the meteorological community is thinking of REWORKING THE NAMING SYSTEM because that’s actually easier than helping people figure out that a hurricane named Larissa is still a HURRICANE — we started wondering what other things everyone would just stop worrying about altogether if they were more reminiscent of hairbows and apple pies.
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Can’t Go Home Again: Tacos, Grief and Growing Up Without Tamale House

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

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At Tamale House, frat boys and construction workers sat side by side at dirty tables eating 85 cent tacos off styrofoam plates from 6:30 am to 3 pm. Monday through Saturday. A crew of Latina women shouted back and forth about limonada and chorizo on one side of the counter. Customers with cash in hand filled tiny plastic cups with salsa on the other. We were all united by our love of perfectly…

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Make a Thing: DIY Sparkly Flower Sunglasses Because You’re Fancy

Make a Thing: DIY Sparkly Flower Sunglasses Because You’re Fancy

Ah yes, summer, statement-making time! Give these shades a try for a retro yet updated look that can help boost your DIY street cred.

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Can’t you just see these with a kick-ass Instagram filter laid on?

Sparkly Flower Sunglasses

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You will need:

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Webcomic “Becoming Me” Shows What it’s Like to be a Young Trans Woman Around Town

Webcomic “Becoming Me” Shows What it’s Like to be a Young Trans Woman Around Town

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by rory midhani

by rory midhani

Seeing as I’m a trans woman who loves comics and who loves diverse queer representation in the comics that I read, I’m constantly on the look for good webcomics with trans protagonists. I recently found the lovely comic Becoming Me and it is wonderfully filling that role. Written by Mia Rose Elbo, a 23-year-old Chilean trans woman, Becoming Me only started as a comic back in…

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Rest in Power, Yuri Kochiyama

Rest in Power, Yuri Kochiyama

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On the evening of Sunday, June 1, 2014, the world lost a revolutionary, civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama. Kochiyama died in her sleep at the age of 93 due to natural causes, according to her family. The Japanese-American figure featured prominently in the political uprisings and movements of the 1960s, fighting for racial justice and equality. Diane C. Fujino, who wrote Kochiyama’s biography

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He Said/We Said: Cherry Blossom Swoons

He Said/We Said: Cherry Blossom Swoons

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dapperQ is proud to present our annual Pride edition of He Said/We Said (HS/WS) on Autostraddle, featuring masculine gender bending style that will stop you dead in your tracks.

For a quick refresher on the HS/WS series, check out creatress mastermind Anita Dolce Vita‘s plan behind the HS/WS magic:

“The models fashion their very own looks – I give the inspiration, they give the interpretation.…

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Top Ten Other Things We Can Just Stop Worrying About If They Have Female Names

Top Ten Other Things We Can Just Stop Worrying About If They Have Female Names

Today, the world found out that hurricanes aren’t actually dangerous if they have Lady Names instead of Dude Names! Just kidding, they’re EXACTLY AS DANGEROUS, you gormless paste-eating idiots. That’s why they keep KILLING SO MANY PEOPLE, because a bunch of shitbirds are too stupid and misogynistic to realize that anything could still be deadly once they’ve slapped cartoon eyelashes onto it in…

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My mom always told us one day she was going to save up and buy a house in Lake George, where we drove each summer to go on vacation and stayed in no-name motels far from the center of town. “I’ve always wanted to own a hotel, or a bakery, or something,” she would say out loud on the road. I would promise we could do it together. “I’ll make the ads! I’ll make the beds!” I would tell her. When I was a kid, I didn’t want money so I could have more things. I wanted money so my mom could be happy.
~ Carmen Rios, (x)

“My mom always used to say that we could save up a few paychecks, run away to Vermont and start a bed-and-breakfast. Run away so he couldn’t find us, couldn’t call us until we had to disconnect the phone, couldn’t drive past our door yelling her name. We’d change our names, she said. She wanted to be Sophia, and I said I would be Leila. Sophia and Leila Montgomery, we would sign our new soap-opera names with big flourishes and wish for Vermont. I said I would make the beds, I said I would wash the floors and set the tables. I never realized how universal this fantasy was, I always thought it was just me and my mom. 


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Novel Idea: What If We Actually Researched Whether Menstrual Products Are Safe to Use

Novel Idea: What If We Actually Researched Whether Menstrual Products Are Safe to Use

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Think about your favorite — or not so favorite — menstrual hygiene product commercial. Usually some racially ambiguous person who presumably menstruates floats across the screen in a lily white dress, enjoying their life until “Mother Nature” ruins everything. The protagonist loses all hope in ever smiling again now that their period has arrived. Luckily, some Playtex™, Kotex™, Always™, or…

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26 Things to Dip Your Chips In, You Wild Animal You

26 Things to Dip Your Chips In, You Wild Animal You

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Hello and welcome to this thing we’re trying out where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and next week we’ll check in and talk about which things we made,…

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Noted goodlooking human Evan Rachel Wood came out as bisexual in a 2011 issue of Esquire, and since then has continued to be a bisexual person, breathing the same air as other human beings on Planet Earth and walking among them. Following her wedding in 2012, a Twitter follower inquired as to whether her marriage to a man meant that Ms. Wood no longer identified as bisexual. Evan Rachel Wood replied that she was in fact still bisexual, just no longer single. In the wake of her marriage’s dissolution, Ms. Wood now appears to be not only single, but also still bisexual.
Autostraddle, helpfully, on Evan Rachel Wood’s recent separation from Jamie Bell (via jacquelynn)
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