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My Personal Is Political: Reconciling My Queer Trauma with My Feminism

My Personal Is Political: Reconciling My Queer Trauma with My Feminism

December 26, 1996

My mother calls me downstairs in our latest rental home. The living room was still covered in wrapping paper and clothes and presents from the day before, and I’m certain I’m being called to finally take care of the mess. Her big blonde curls and pageant dresses are all over the TV.

Why is she on TV? Isn’t she supposed to be visiting today?

My mother says something about…

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22 Ways for Eggplant to Help You Make It Through This Endless Motherf*cking Winter

22 Ways for Eggplant to Help You Make It Through This Endless Motherf*cking Winter

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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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Five Girls You Will Bring Home In Your Twenties

Five Girls You Will Bring Home In Your Twenties

1. The Friend of a Friend of a Friend of an Ex of a Friend

This is the girl you meet at the bar when you’re too tired and too sober to be at the bar. The friend you came with swears on her mother’s dildo that this is the last place tonight, and then she promisesshe’ll pay for…

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#AutoAri: This Week’s Real World Q&A is Deeper Than Bromance

#AutoAri: This Week’s Real World Q&A is Deeper Than Bromance

This week on The Real World: Ex-PlosionAri’s presence is limited and everything goes to shit. Typical.

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Although this week’s episode featured Ari for about 50 seconds, things definitely still got gay.

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As in, I spent the entire first ten minutes of this show ready to invest in a new gay subplot for the show.

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I’m not fucking around.

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But Brian and Cory weren’t alone in their…

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‘Orange is the New Black’ Panel Reveals Behind-The-Scenes Info at PaleyFest

‘Orange is the New Black’ Panel Reveals Behind-The-Scenes Info at PaleyFest

On Friday, several cast and crew members from the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black took to the stage at New York’s PaleyFest to talk about how Season One has changed their lives and a few things that we can look forward to in this summer’s Season Two.

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One of the things that fans love (or at least one of the things I love) about the show is how we get to see backstories of…

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Top 5 Ways To Make Your Desk Job More Exciting

Top 5 Ways To Make Your Desk Job More Exciting

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My day job is pretty cool, and I’m really lucky to have it — I get to do things I like, I’m friends with my coworkers, and I JUST GOT MOVED next to this awesome window, with a view of a small wind turbine spinning inspiringly in the distance. Still, when I quit being a gardener a couple of years ago in order to sit down all day and look at a screen, I quickly noticed a pronounced difference in my…

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Star Trek N00b, Episode 15: Balance of Terror (Races in Space)

Star Trek N00b, Episode 15: Balance of Terror (Races in Space)

I bet you’re as curious about the spooky and ominous title as I am—if so, you can watch along here.

The episode opens with Captain Kirk and Yeoman Rand setting up for some kind of ritual. Rand’s lighting candles, and Kirk stands at attention behind a podium.

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“Here Comes the Bride” starts playing in the background. OMG, are we about to watch our first wedding in space?

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Despite Luck of the Irish, Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams Drop Sponsorship of Anti-LGBT St Patrick’s Parades

Despite Luck of the Irish, Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams Drop Sponsorship of Anti-LGBT St Patrick’s Parades

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In a surprise turn of events, Guinness announced on Sunday that it will be pulling sponsorship from New York’s St Patrick’s Day parade on Monday, in support of LGBT groups. It joins Heineken and Sam Adams, who had earlier pulled their sponsorship from New York and Boston parades respectively.

The controversy this year began when organizers of South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade once…

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just gonna liveblog from my nursing class…

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So my university makes us come to school on Saturdays and Sundays now. In protest (and boredom) I’ve spent all morning eat vegetarian breakfast paninis and reading Autostraddle on my laptop. The girl next to me keeps staring at my laptop slack-jawed and wide-eyed. She’s really conservative and I think she’s shocked by the ~*~scandalous~*~ gayness of what I’m reading.

She’s reading this now as I’m typing it.
I think it’s time.

DEAR CLASSMATE: HELLO YES I AM GAY

Mother Says Britney Cosby’s Father, Implicated In Murder, Disapproved Of Slain Lesbain Couple’s Lifestyle

Mother Says Britney Cosby’s Father, Implicated In Murder, Disapproved Of Slain Lesbain Couple’s Lifestyle

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On Friday, we told you that James Larry Cosby, the father of 24-year-old Britney Cosby, who was brutally murdered along with her girlfriend Crystal Jackson, had been arrested and charged with two counts of tampering with evidence. The Galveston County Sheriff told the press that he believed Cosby was responsible for the murders of the two women, but has yet to charge him with murder. Now, new…

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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Does Cool Stuff To Your Brain and Body

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Does Cool Stuff To Your Brain and Body

Welcome to NSFW Sunday!

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+ People don’t really use the word “vagina” in sexting because everyone’s been taught it isn’t a sexy word, so everyone use “vagina” in sexting from now on.

+ 1920s fetish wear looks a lot like contemporary fetish wear.

+ “Cunnilingue” and “cunty” have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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+ Lindsay King-Miller answers…

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“:: INVESTMENT ::
Our friend, comrade and colleague, the talented Charles Stephens is Program Coordinator for the upcoming conference, Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Conference“ with the Center for Women at Emory...
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:: INVESTMENT ::

Our friend, comrade and colleague, the talented Charles Stephens is Program Coordinator for the upcoming conference, Whose Beloved Community?: Black Civil and LGBT Rights Conference" with the Center for Women at Emory University and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race & Difference Institute. He has been working tirelessly to bring Atlanta a meaningful lens through which to see queers of color, activism and history… and so much more. 

   
The importance and expansiveness of this conference can not be overstated so we thought we’d do you a favor and compile all the details here, that you may research, learn, register, promote and share with your networks, Follow, Like and Join us, March 27-29th, beginning with keynote address Thursday night featuring Mandy Carter, Julian Bond and Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs. 

   
We hope you’ll come out and join us, share with your networks and help us raise visibility about this amazing event. 

Keynote RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/867135483301564/

Register here:
https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/EMR/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=163332

Volunteer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bvZk2GMPZ-5fgYPstkGTTxiV0AEKtRhm2of4wkxWX0s/viewform


More about Charles:http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/10/er_profile_charles_stephens/campus.html