Jetta Rae DoubleCakes

Jetta Rae DoubleCakes

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Jetta Rae’s story starts playing baseball in Germany and ends writing educational songs for children on her ukulele.    In between she co-edits Consent Culture, hosts grappling workshops for women, and volunteers at the Pacific Pinball Museum.

Jetta Rae DoubleCakes Articles

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Fall Of The Machine Age: MMA Fighter Attempts Suicide in Jail

The cycle of un-addressed intimate partner violence in MMA continues for War Machine, now recovering from a suicide attempt.

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The Love In The Stitching Of My Girlfriend's Hand-Me-Down Dress

As a trans woman, I dress for solidarity. I dress to be identified. And now, I have received my "dress blues."

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TMI Tuesday: Help! I Shart My Lover's Bed!

DoubleCakes dishes out advice to a reader who did something unseemly in her one-night-stand's bed.

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Things My Exes Left Behind: A Flannel Shirt, A Polaroid And The Search For Common Ground

There's a dresser in my drawer, and all it contains is a flannel shirt and a picture of me and Henrietta, from Christmas 2013.

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Why Are 'Lesbian Feminists' Attacking Trans Women?

We deserve to be safe. We deserve to live—even at the cost of your flawed, incomplete grasp of lesbian identity.

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Discomfort Food: How We Feed The Infirm And Incarcerated Is Disgusting

When you openly deride poor/sick/incarcerated people who have access to nutritious and delicious food, you set us all up for failure.

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Halloween In Hell: 6 Offensive Costumes That Should Burn For All Eternity

Hailing from the bowels of hell, it's time to meet Pocahottie, Sexy Eskimo, Sexy China Doll . . . and more!

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Tilting In Our Favor: Pinball May Be The Most Inclusive Gaming Space For Women

Other gaming communities could learn a thing or two from the surprisingly (mostly) welcoming world of pinball.

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Fighting Back Against The Misogynistic Gaming Community Does Not Make Me A 'Social Justice Warrior'

This implies there are rules. And when it comes to GamerGate, there are no rules.

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Things My Exes Left Behind: Lavender Lotion Scented With Heartache

I put the lotion on my skin for a week after they left, hoping that it would bring me stop-gap solace until they forgave me and came back.

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