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5 Fashionable Ways to Signal Your Queer Girl Status

5 Fashionable Ways to Signal Your Queer Girl Status

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I get it grrrl. You all up in the club trying to pick up some nice lady to snuggle with (clothes optional), but you keep getting ignored because everyone thinks you are the straight friend that just came along for the homo-erotic ride. Trust me, I’ve been there, and it totally sucks! I know it’s tough to want to dress nice and get hit on by girls, especially when going out, without feeling like like you have to dress like a fourteen-year-old boy. FYI: I have nothing against this look (I steal my gf’s Land’s End shirts all the time), I just have more of an affinity towards dresses and heels, and seeing the popularity of Modcloth on this site, I’m guessing many of ya’ll do too.

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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Every Last Nook and Cranny

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Every Last Nook and Cranny

Happy Friday, passengers, and welcome to the ride of your life! It’s been seven days since our last Friday Open Thread, which happen every Friday whether you like it or not, and I’m here to apply low to moderate social pressure on you in order to solicit your feedback below. Just kidding! What I really want is for you to fork over photos of your pets, new kitchen appliances, and really amazing perfect humans in your life – and stories about them and everything under the sun – in the comments.

But first, can we please ooh and ahh over Rori Midhani’s genius.

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Things I Read That I Love #123: I Am Not A Melodramatic Person.

Things I Read That I Love #123: I Am Not A Melodramatic Person.

HELLO and welcome to the 123rd installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can read them too and we can all know more about Clueless! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of the site. Here is where the other things are.

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Turkey’s Plan to Segregate LGBT Prisoners is Bad, But So Is the USA’s

Turkey’s Plan to Segregate LGBT Prisoners is Bad, But So Is the USA’s

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Last weekend, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag announced that the government of Turkey plans to create separate prison facilitiesfor incarcerated LGBT people, apparently in an attempt to protect them. Unlike other Muslim countries, Turkey permits same-sex relationships and even gender-confirming surgeries; however, traditional Islamic values heavily influence society and lead to the stigmatization of LGBT populations, demonstrated now through this attempt to isolate queer prisoners. As of now, imprisoned LGBT people are kept in solitary confinement but the Turkish government’s plans effectively will increase the social ostracism of incarcerated queer folks.

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The Comment Awards Would Never Write You Off

The Comment Awards Would Never Write You Off

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Good day, tax payers!

This week, while many of you were deciding how much to pay Uncle Sam/ the patriarchy Mey was reviewing Lumberjanes #1, Lizz was liveblogging Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards and Sally started building a computer!

If you were lucky enough to get a tax return, why not put some of it towards keeping sex-ed website Scarleteen afloat?

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Lez Liberty Lit #44: Silent Reading Party

Lez Liberty Lit #44: Silent Reading Party

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Talking about desire is, of necessity, imperfect:

“Precision prevents disaster. It makes up for variability. They say that the same bread recipe followed to the letter in two different kitchens produces two different loaves, and it’s true. (“Why are your cookies prettier?” my mother wants to know.) The wording is meticulous and the instructions exhaustive because of all the things that cannot be perfectly controlled, like the humidity of your oven or the enthusiasm of the yeast. The gram measurements and demands to sift not scoop are a defense against the world’s chaos, and a paltry one, but without them the bread may never materialize, risen and pale goldish, as desired. It may fall irretrievably in the baking.

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It’s sort of like showing up to Thanksgiving having said you’d bring green bean casserole, except you brought a single green bean on a paper plate. Even though this will obviously not feed any of the other guests and barely counts as a green bean casserole, you sneer at those who are protesting, telling them that they never specified what a green bean casserole is and besides that, they’re being whiny babies. You wave the single limp green bean in the air and tell them that it’s obvious they’ll never be happy, that they’re complaining for the sake of complaining and that it’s no wonder they don’t get to eat quality green bean casserole because nobody wants to share green bean casserole with such an aggressive and unfriendly group. In other words, making a character bisexual only to immediately write them out of the show makes me feel like shoving a green bean up someone’s nose.
Autostraddle writer Kate on why she has stopped writing recaps of ‘Once Upon a Time’ for the site  (via strongbabydragon)
Queerbaiting is the silent killer in our televisions. Please, make sure your favorite shows get tested early and often. In the first stages of queerbaiting, the disease is regularly mistaken for actual representation and the start of a romantic arc. Symptoms include lingering physical contact, intense gazes, vague but seemingly meaningful confessions and innuendo-filled dialogue. One of the most prevalent symptoms is referred to by the medical community as “eye sex,” with hundreds of cases on record. So far, the only cure for queerbaiting seems to be not engaging with the show itself, but the more time that passes, the deeper the investment and thus the more difficult the treatment.
Kate via And They Lived Heterosexually Ever After: Why I’m Not Recapping Once Upon A Time Anymore | Autostraddle
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Glee Episode 516: “Tested” Will Test Your Endurance For An Episode Without Lesbians

Glee Episode 516: “Tested” Will Test Your Endurance For An Episode Without Lesbians

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Welcome to the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of Glee, a series of commercials for individually wrapped slices of American cheese. This week, an itchy assortment of iron-clad Daughters of the American Revolution will be signing and dancing their way through a majority of your personal issues, including Sephora, face lotion, dim sum, CVS Extra Bucks, lip gloss and underwater lovemaking.

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Q-taku: Your Colossal Guide to "Attack On Titan," And Its Shiny New English Dub
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I watched the dub premiere of Attack on Titan at Anime Boston. Here’s why I think everyone who is interested in awesome female characters and good queer representation, should give this brutal acti…

My Attack on Titan… “review”, of sorts, is up! Also it’s the premiere of my new “Q-taku” anime column on Autostraddle.

And They Lived Heterosexually Ever After: Why I’m Not Recapping Once Upon A Time Anymore

And They Lived Heterosexually Ever After: Why I’m Not Recapping Once Upon A Time Anymore

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There have been some inquiries as to where the Once Upon A Time recaps have gone. This post is meant to answer those inquiries and address something that I believe is of grave concern to our community, a terrible disease lurking in the bones of many a piece of media. Yes, my dear friends, I speak of queerbaiting.

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