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Only if I can come and communicate with you entirely with texted gifs, Riese!
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FAIL. Well, I can apparently only communicate with you through broken link gifs!
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I’d make my PA sing all my emails as a character from a musical, so when at least when I find out i’m behind on a deadline, it’s from the cast of Cats
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HELLS TO THE YES. That would be awesome (also hello, fellow DC area friend, you automatically became 100x more interesting to me because you read and comment on Autostraddle). See how that would work?
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I am tempted to start a food blog and buy a camera just so next time this call for submissions comes around I have more qualifications than “my housemates really like to eat my food” and sometimes I...
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Engine Driver is hands down my favorite thing to write angsty poetry to.
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You’re lucky I love you enough, Autostraddle, to try coming back and filling that out for the 3rd time. (Also I do online surveys for research and know how glitchy they can be across platforms so mucho...
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As a 27 year old living mostly with 23 year olds, I find that my “giving a fuck”-ness has decreased greatly as I moved up in age brackets. It’s wonderful.
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I’mmma going to let you finish BUT NEW HAVEN has the best pizza in the country (the best pizza I had in the world was in Sweden, oddly enough, probably because I haven’t been to Italy yet and...
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From now on, when people ask me to label my sexuality, I am just going to say “Willow” and hand them this article.
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I turned down grad school at Berkeley (where one of my best friends goes, too) for financial reasons but I think the real reason is because I’m an East Coast Eeyore and I wouldn’t be able to cope with...
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Just wanted to come back here and say that reading this inspired me to try to look for something closer to me in D.C. — and I found it — The Wanda Alston House, which is run by Casa Ruby, and hopefully...
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Well, Brittani, I think you’ve done it — written an article that is more controversial than anything written on bisexuality EVER.
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YES, thank you, the list is perfect. Now I can procrastinate AND read good things.
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Eich was not fired, as many LGBT folks are for his views. Eich was not violently oppressed or beaten. He resigned. Why? — we don’t know exactly, but he didn’t appeal to his largely liberal consumer...
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I’m curious about this statement: “Even if she dates men from now till forever, the label “bisexual” would still apply if she considered her past relationships with women legit, which she seems to not...
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Yeah, yeah, cushy celebrities with their cushy lives and their obligation to try to make the world better for those who don’t have visibility. Yes, I agree. BUT I would agree with the original comment...
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Ok, so I need a “Stop Spending All the Money On Gross Lunches and Throw these Five Things in Your Backpack that Won’t Smoosh, Won’t Go Bad When You Forget About Them For Weeks, Won’t Spill All Over...
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Blazer on Blazer In reply to - Intern Grace wrote a new post, Team Pick: Ellen Page On Ellen DeGeneres Is as Heartwarming as It Gets Do you know who’s great and also gay? Trick question, I was thinking...
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But for reals, the discussion on carrying shame and guilt caught in my heart. In reply to - Intern Grace wrote a new post, Team Pick: Ellen Page On Ellen DeGeneres Is as Heartwarming as It Gets Do you...
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Been following this story — so pissed at the way it turned out. You know, I’ve been one among my friends to defend cops, saying that there are a few bad apples but the majority do their job well, but...
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I also want to make sure that a column on religion doesn’t just come from a Western (Christian) perspective. (I know Autostraddle is probably going to be good about this, but I’ve sat in so many...
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Great article, Riese. I’m at the point in grad school where I’m picking topics for my thesis and everything looks shiny. Also, there are canyons smaller than the scars that are left on me during that...
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No, it’s ok, I definitely have seen that there’s more shit coming from the top, and that the cop and prison system is one of systemic oppression and violence. Took me a while to get enough knowledge to...
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Dammmn, so many good comments here. I was just going to read them all and not post, but I think it’s important to be a visible voice here. First things first, I’m imagining all of Autostraddle being...
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I immediately went out and bought avocados in a movement of avocado activistim to counter Brittani’s article after reading it. In reply to - the team wrote a new post, In Which We Are Accused Of Being...
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So uber scientsist me has always been pretty non-believing (and somewhat uppity and skeptical) in tarot, but this column and that fucking gorgeous The Wild Unknown deck is turning me around. The...
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Sarah is making the transition from badass to dumbass in this season, I think. Like, hey my daughter Kira everyone’s after, I’m going to leave her alone with the guy I haven’t seen for 8 years (anyone...
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The image for this on my FB feed is Helena from Orphan Black looking into a fish tank, which amused me because she would totes make happy banners! With things like BEST SEESTRA 4EVA and doll heads...
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I’m not biracial, so my comment isn’t coming from that place, but I just wanted to thank you guys for being vulnerable and sharing and acknowledge that it is reverberating, even for people on the...
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Sometimes my heart hurts when I think of the lack of QPOC in my life, and the conversations I would love to have, and the lessons I still need to learn. Going to make it a goal for this next school...
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Woah, woah, woah. 1) Look at my profile picture. Am I a white person? Let me clarify. I AM NOT A WHITE PERSON. I am a South Asian American person. Please don’t jump down my throat because of...
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* I mean that intersectionality helped me reframe the things I FEEL. In reply to - gabrielle wrote a new post, 36 Reasons Why QPOC-Only Spaces Are Very Necessary Dear Beautiful Kittens from the...
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I am going to break this out into its own comment because I’m still fairly upset about the thread below my first comment: Why did people assume I was white based on the comment I made? Why is this a...
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And I guess this is why I hesitate in getting my food in the door at QPOC groups. Am I brown enough for y’all? Does South Asian count? Do I already have the predetermined amount of knowledge about...
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Why assume white at all? In reply to - gabrielle wrote a new post, 36 Reasons Why QPOC-Only Spaces Are Very Necessary Dear Beautiful Kittens from the Heavens, We’ve got some things to talk about,...
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P.S. I get the problematic aspects of using skin color as a race/ethnic signifier, it was more my frustration that people didn’t take even a basic pause or think to understand where my comment could be...
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Oh, and I just saw your new post. OK. Deep breaths. Thank you for being more understanding this time around. I appreciate it. In reply to - gabrielle wrote a new post, 36 Reasons Why QPOC-Only Spaces...
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Now that I’ve had a little time to chill, and you know, move on with my life, a few thoughts: I really wish that comments hadn’t been deleted out of the original thread. Like, let’s not erase history...
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This — thank you. So much this. <3 In reply to - gabrielle wrote a new post, 36 Reasons Why QPOC-Only Spaces Are Very Necessary Dear Beautiful Kittens from the Heavens, We’ve got some things to talk...
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Yeah, autostraddle mods, I have to say, if the comments stay the way they are, I might have to stop commenting myself. I forgive honest mistakes, even if they are really stupid. But the deliberate...
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Still waiting for a moderator to either publicly or privately address what happened with moderation in this thread. The memory of the front page of Autostraddle may be short, but mine isn’t. In reply...
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Oh, honey. Breaking my comment silence to say I feel your feels right in the feels. Looking at last year’s (6 hr long) playlist from my own upheaval, I humbly recommend the following: On the Radio –...
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Also, should say that there was plenty of overlap between the awesome list you made and was on my own playlist. In reply to - Riese wrote a new post, Playlist: Oh Wow So I’m Starting All Over Then I...
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The couple who lived above my first apartment after college used to have huge arguments and then loud sex, once to Bloodhound Gang’s “The Bad Touch” on repeat. In reply to - Riese wrote a new post,...
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I was at some of the Tuesday night D.C. protests, and I think some of you eloquently wrote about some of the ambivalence I felt at being a non-black POC and watching the various ways that non-black...
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