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DeAnne Smith and Taking Off That Bra, Girl

I’m gonna get that bra off you so fast, girl. What is that, a strapless half-cup padded Princesse Tam Tam? While you’re registering your surprise that I know that, look in my left hand, because here it is. Bam. That’s right, I’m the Florence Griffith-Joyner of bra removal. I do it so fast, people suspect performance-enhancing drugs are involved. They’re not. I’m the cheetah of bra removal, the peregrine falcon, the sailfish. I unhook that shit so fast, I use my spare time between when I do it and when you notice to research the fastest animals on the planet. Did you know sailfish generally keep their characteristic erectile dorsal fins folded down as they race through the water at up to 110 km/h? I’ll tell you what won’t be folded down after your bra comes off, baby: my erectile dorsal fin.

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OKCupid Asks Users to Stop Being Activity Partners With Firefox and its Anti-Gay CEO

Perhaps you missed Brenden Eich‘s rise to CEO of Mozilla, the company that makes the Firefox browser (among other things). Eich is a co-founder of Mozilla and the inventor of much of Javascript, the language that makes sites and forms interactive. It sounds like he’s super qualified for the job, yeah? It’s just corporate movement like any other, right? Except this time around, the CEO in question…

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Drawn to Comics: “Busty Girl Comics” Shares The Woes Of Being Busty

In honor of Bra Week, Drawn to Comics is focusing on Busty Girl Comics by Paige “Rampaige” Halsey Warren. These usually one to four panel comics tell quick, often single moment, stories about the struggles that come from being a busty girl (or sometimes “busty person”). For those of you who consider yourselves to be in this particular demographic, or those of you who know someone who does, you probably already know that a lot of those problems arise from most bras not being built to suit your needs and stores deciding to not carry the few bras that actually do.

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Star Trek N00b, Episode 17: The Galileo Seven (Logic v. Emotion Cage Match)

N00bs, get your philosophy caps on! Galileo Seven is an episode that really critiques Spock’s logical methods, which often lack emotion, during a fight for survival. It’s the whole head vs. heart conflict, which you can watch with me here.
Why these two make such an adorable and effective couple…of leaders.
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So many of you have noted in the comments that the TOS I’ve been…

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More Than Words: Ra Ra Bras!

“Bra” is an abbreviation of brassiere, a French word with a restless and (mostly) breastless history — it comes from the Latin bracchium, for “arm,” via Old French braciere or “arm guard.” The French brasseire originally meant a military chest plate, and today is generally used to denote a baby’s undershirt or a life preserver. Along the way it briefly meant a particular type of undergarment, but the most common French word for “bra” today is soutien-gorge, or literally “breast-supporter.” That straightforward descriptiveness is true of most languages — in Esperanto a bra is a mamzano or “breast-belt,” and it’s a BH, or bust-holder, in German, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch. And English-speakers might be going BH shopping too, if not for a French actress, some enterprising advertisers, and the miracle of rubber thread.

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Laverne Cox to Receive GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award, Ellen Page to Present It, Everyone to Swoon

Yup. You read that right. Beacon of magnificence Laverne Cox will be honored at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, and beacon of magnificence Ellen Page will present it.
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GLAAD made the announcement this morning, noting that the Stephen F. Kolzak award
is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender media professional who has made a…

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Once upon a time, a glorious thing happened on Autostraddle called Underwear Week. We spent basically a month discussing our favorite underthings — Underwear For Your Masculine Center, Boyshorts & Girltrunks 102, Plus-Size Underwear For All Gender Presentations, Femme-ish Underwear Realness, Thongs 101 and so much more. We sewed and ate and drank our underpants to our heart’s content. We had such a good time without our pants off that many of you suggested we considered taking our shirts off, too, and give some attention to the other half of your bra-and-panties set. Although we did a fairly epic Bra Issue back in 2011, so many things have changed since then!

So: WELCOME TO BRA WEEK. This week and next, the Autostraddle writers and some special guests will be giving you the scoop on over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders and otherwise-inclined chest-covering situations — fashion, history, feelings and so much more.

Let’s kick off with a gallery, eh?

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It’s Bra Week On Autostraddle, Here’s Your Golden Bra Week Gallery! Once upon a time, a glorious thing happened on Autostraddle called Underwear Week. We spent basically a month discussing our favorite underthings —

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22 Things Lesbians Said About The Internet In 1994

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I picked up this 1996 book Assaults on Convention: Essays on Lesbian Transgressors from the library last week. It’s an essay collection that “explores lesbian misbehavior of many kinds,” with essays about lesbians who “break unspoken rules of the lesbian community” by doing…

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33 Ways to Eat Avocados Every Which Way

Hello and welcome to this new 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…

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It’s Trans Day of Visibility! Here’s 15 Ways To Let Trans People Know You See Them and Care

International Trans Day of Visibility is here! This event, which happens each year on March 31st, was started by Rachel Crandall, the leader of Transgender Michigan. It exists so that we can focus on the trans people around us and the good that they do. She wanted a day that celebratedand recognized trans people who are still with us to go alongside Trans Day of Remembrance, which remembers those…

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Five Foods You Should Never Eat Again

I keep seeing lists about foods you should never eat because they’re bad for you or banned in other countries or responsible for all of the sadness in the world or something and I’m not buying it. I have the real list of foods you should stop eating backed up by my own personal…

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