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Scarleteen and Its Awesome, Inclusive Sex Ed Are At Risk, But You Can Help

Scarleteen and Its Awesome, Inclusive Sex Ed Are At Risk, But You Can Help

The internet is a great place to learn about sex, but Scarleteen, one of the most comprehensive and nonjudgemental sources on the internet for youth of all genders and sexualities, is in danger of disappearing from the web if they can’t accumulate enough funds to be sustainable. Serving a wake up call to those who have grown accustomed to their presence on the internet, Scarleteen declared it will go on strike on May 1st — May Day — unless people step up to get them the funds they need to sustain their work.

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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland’s Former Prime Minister, Proves Lesbians Can Rule the World

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland’s Former Prime Minister, Proves Lesbians Can Rule the World

There are a lot of things you’re not supposed to be able to do when you’re gay: get married, have children, be the head of a national government, etc. But stereotypes exist to be broken, at least when you’re former Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. A profile published yesterday in the Telegraph  shares the truly touching story of the former prime minister and her partner of  30 years, Jónína Leósdóttir.

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Smells Like All My Dreams Came True: Joan Jett, St. Vincent and Kim Gordon Channel Kurt Cobain

Smells Like All My Dreams Came True: Joan Jett, St. Vincent and Kim Gordon Channel Kurt Cobain

Nirvana was officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night, a process that involves a lot of speechifying, hugging, and putting aside of old grudges, as well as the occasional musical performance. These first few criteria were easy to hit: everyone talked for a million hours, and Courtney Love and Dave Grohl ended their 20-year feud with a real nice hug.

I’M NOT WEEPING, THERE ARE JUST LIKE 12 THINGS IN MY EYE

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Love Isn’t All You Need: Michigan Woman Assaulted After Her Same-Sex Wedding

Love Isn’t All You Need: Michigan Woman Assaulted After Her Same-Sex Wedding

A Michigan woman married her partner on March 22, the only day courts performed marriages between when a federal court struck Michigan’s down marriage ban and when a judge stayed the ruling. She and her partner made the news as they celebrated their union on the momentous day.

Nine days later, three men attacked the woman at a bus stop.

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Report On Media Gender Diversity Confirms The Patriarchy Continues Controlling Everything, Being The Worst

Report On Media Gender Diversity Confirms The Patriarchy Continues Controlling Everything, Being The Worst

On Thursday, the Women’s Media Center released its third annual report on gender bias in major US media creation. The results, I’m sorry to say, confirm what many of us already know anecdotally: that women are underrepresented across the board.

Here’s the overview:

Men get about two-thirds of byline credits regardless of media type. Via Women’s Media Center.

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Women of Soul Invade White House, Your Television

Women of Soul Invade White House, Your Television

feature image via AP

After 200+ years of running the American government via several committees of boring old white guys, the Obama administration has finally figured out how to govern this country in a way that makes sense for everybody. On March 6, the White House celebrated Women’s History Month by hosting Aretha Franklin, Janelle Monáe, Patti LaBelle, Melissa Etheridge, Jill Scott, Ariana Grande and Tessanne Chin for a concert intended to celebrate the struggles, achievements and contributions made by women in music. Earlier in the day, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted “I’m Every Woman: The History of Women in Soul,” an interactive workshop for 124 middle school, high school and college students. Participants gathered in the State Dining Room to meet with Robert Santelli, Executive Director of The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles and several of the performers to discuss the social and political climates of America that led to the advent of soul music, and its impact on the world. Michelle Obama described soul as “the kind of music that makes you move, no matter who you are or where you come from.”

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Mozilla CEO Brenden Eich Resigns Over Prop 8 Controversy, Mozilla Remains Pretty Cool

Mozilla CEO Brenden Eich Resigns Over Prop 8 Controversy, Mozilla Remains Pretty Cool

Earlier this week, OKCupid joined the outrage at Mozilla’s new choice of CEO Brenden Eich by asking their users to uninstall Firefox. Yesterday, Brenden Eich resigned.

via re/code

This after Eich insisted that he would not resign over his private $1,000 donation to the campaign for Proposition 8:

Eich said the reason Mozilla as a community did not take a wider stance on issues such as LGBT marriage was the same as his reason for not explaining his donation: to avoid fragmenting its community. Without a large group of people who disagreed on lots of issues, Firefox would never have happened, he said.

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MTV’s New Fake Lesbian Show “Faking It” Makes Me So Confused

MTV’s New Fake Lesbian Show “Faking It” Makes Me So Confused

On April 22nd, MTV will be premiering a new show called Faking It. According to MTV, “Faking It is a new romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other — in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse.” I have so many feelings about this.

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

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

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.

via GLAAD

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

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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Canadian Inuit Respond to Ellen DeGeneres’ Famous Selfie with Sealfies and Tradition

Canadian Inuit Respond to Ellen DeGeneres’ Famous Selfie with Sealfies and Tradition

Canadian Inuit are using sealfies — photos with seal skins and meat — to demonstrate the role the seal hunt plays in their lives and protest Ellen DeGeneres’s Oscars-selfie-related donation to the Humane Society of the United States, an organization that loudly opposes it.

After DeGeneres’s Oscars selfie with Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and others became the most retweeted photo ever,…

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Put Down What You’re Doing Right Now And Go Get Covered

Put Down What You’re Doing Right Now And Go #GetCovered

Hey there tiny dancers, crazy diamonds, and console cowgirls. Do you know what Monday is? Monday is March 31, your last day to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.The LAST ONE. If you don’t have health insurance — which many Autostraddle readers and even Autostraddle staff members don’t — this is crunch time for you to make the miracle happen. And having health insurance…

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“Porn Studies” Is Fucking Rad

“Porn Studies” Is Fucking Rad

Porn Studies, the first peer-reviewed academic journal about porn, launched last week and is now available on the Internet for free from Routledge.

The time for Porn Studiesis now. All types of porn are getting more accessible, and partly getting better, and conversations about sex and sexuality and what goes in front of our eyeballs when our hands are down our pants and what that might or might…

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Hobby Lobby Continues To Make Crafting Look Bad With Birth Control Lawsuit

Hobby Lobby Continues To Make Crafting Look Bad With Birth Control Lawsuit

Four years after its initial passage, lawmakers and lawyers are still talking about — and making pretty big decisions regarding — the Affordable Care Act. Today was a big day for a case that could dramatically affect interpretation of the contraception requirements of the health care mandate, as well as the right of private companies and corporations to invoke religious beliefs in response to…

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