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1 day ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
This is The Parlour, a place for intimate conversation, a real-time archive, a shared diary passed between a rotating cast of queer characters every week in an attempt to capture a kaleidoscopic view of what it’s like to be a queer person right here, right now. Earlier this year, my close friend and creative partner, Brendan, and I were given a small grant by our county’s arts and culture division to produce a documentary film.
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2 days ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
One of the last Sunday mornings I showed up for altar server duties, a young, newly-ordained priest was giving that morning’s mass as part of a trial-run to see if he’d be the one to replace our parish priest.
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3 days ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
This is Trans News Tracker, a biweekly Autostraddle roundup and analysis of the biggest trans news stories. Feels strange to start this by saying “Welcome back to Trans News Tracker,” but here we are. About a week ago, I expressed some weariness to a friend regarding how closely I’ve been paying attention to all of the highs and lows of what’s going on when it comes to our survival. They reminded me of something I often express:We’ve always found a way to keep living and we’ll continue to.
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2 weeks ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
This is the first edition of Trans News Tracker, a bi-weekly round-up of the most important news — good and bad — impacting trans and queer people in the U.S. (and abroad). Two states are currently leading the charge against the Trump administration’s attacks on trans children and adults: Maine and Minnesota.
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3 weeks ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
A litany of issues faces the state of Florida (as with many other states in the South) right now: climate change rapidly destroying the already failing infrastructure of most of the state’s major cities, the flailing economy, the housing crisis, ongoing environmental degradation from deregulated industrial production, continuing attacks on our communities by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local police, our declining literacy rates, and, as of yesterday, a mass shooting on...
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4 weeks ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
The next step in the Trump Administration’s plan to make life as difficult as possible for trans people in this country is being taken. With the exception of a couple of independent news outlets, very little coverage is being published about it, despite its potential impacts on almost everyone in the U.S. who buys their healthcare through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace.
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1 month ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
In a climate of constant loss, it’s difficult to contextualize anything as a “victory.” Since President Trump and his administration took office in January, there have been more mass deportations and disappearances, revocations of international student visas, endless violations by Israel of their ceasefire agreement with Palestine, constant hits to the global economy, more federal funds withdrawn from educational institutions, closures of the branches of the federal government created to take...
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1 month ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
In her gorgeous new book, Cinema Her Way, writer and film critic Marya E. Gates interviews 19 female filmmakers about their work, their experiences in the film industry, and the films that inspired them to make their own. These interviews with directors — including Karyn Kusama, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Allison Anders, and Cheryl Dunye — give us a thoroughly detailed insider’s view of the creativity, determination, and community-building that has come to define their careers.
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1 month ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
It seems like everyone is talking about eating more protein these days. I’m not one to respond when people are raising alarms about arbitrary dietary issues, but I do think this particular conversation is important for a variety of reasons. Whether we like it or not, the truth is that protein is the main macronutrient the muscles in our bodies feed on and, well, muscle is the organ of longevity.
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1 month ago | 
autostraddle.com | Stef Rubino
When “Night Shift,” one of two singles from Lucy Dacus’s 2018 album Historian, came out, it was impossible not to notice the ferocity and devastation of the songwriting and its delivery. Dacus wasn’t quite a newcomer, but the heartbreak, disappointment, and intensity that existed on Historian certainly helped her reach new listeners and be embraced by the scene and critics alike.
