Results for: Feel good
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P-Valley Has Changed the Rules of Black Queer Storytelling
A roundtable between four queer black writers about THEE show of the summer that united exceptional storytelling, with blackness and queerness and southernness, in ways we’ve never seen before.
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“The Bold Type” Gives Us a Muslim Lesbian and Unapologetic Feel-Good Feminism
Scarlet isn’t interested in acquitting itself to any man. And as the magazine repeatedly rejects the reductive assumption that sex and feminism and fashion and politics can’t coexist, so does the show itself.
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“Gentefied” Will Drop Brown Queer Love Bombs All Over Your Netflix Queue
Put quite simply, it feels damn good to see two Latina lesbians fully themselves, accepted by their loved ones, and at no point expected to leave their queerness at the door.
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Lena Waithe’s “Master of None” Could’ve Settled for Being Black and Beautiful, But It Chose Complicated Instead
The third season Master of None eschews any clean, simple picture. When a happy love story about Black lesbians in love would have been easier, instead it holds up a mirror of what we don’t like to see.
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Whatever You Thought “We Are Lady Parts” Was Going to Be, This Ain’t It
“Gone is Ayesha’s confidence. Gone is her swagger. All that’s left is a girl with a crush.”
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The Angsty Buddhist: “Avatar” & Telling Our Own Stories
I don’t think it matters much whether Avatar: The Last Airbender is “respectful” of Asian culture. I think the show is racist, and also I like it. I’m interested in what we do with the sense of agency it gives us, how it allows us to critique the structures that exist and envision our own worlds.
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“Twenties” Review: Lena Waithe Writes Herself Into Her Groundbreaking New BET Series To Mixed Results
Lena Waithe’s “Twenties” on BET is historic — the first black butch lesbian to ever serve as the protagonist of a comedy in TV history! Carmen and Natalie got together to talk about the show, what’s next for black queer representation, and yes that really great sex scene.
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“Vida” Ends as It Began: A Queer Love Letter to Chicanx and Latinx Communities
Much like the Hernandez sisters, Vida is Tanya Saracho’s bar, her nightclub — and no one gets to push her out before last call without a fight. Few get to say that they’ve truly made history. That what they’ve touched won’t be the same after they’ve gone. Television won’t be the same after Vida. That’s just a fact.
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As a Queer South Asian, “Never Have I Ever” Been So Let Down
The reason I didn’t like “Never Have I Ever” wasn’t because I didn’t feel seen. It’s because Mindy Kaling and I are clearly looking at the same world, but Kaling is expecting me to overlook all of its pain.
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“The Chi” Season Three: Easy on the Eyes as a Queer Woman, Hard on the Heart as a Black Woman
With a total of five lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans Black women characters in the main cast, Lena Waithe’s “The Chi” certainly made history this summer. But did making “The Chi” gayer turn it into a better show?
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Nine Queer Writers of Color on “Generation Q” and The L Word’s Legacy of Whiteness
The L Word: Generation Q featured 12 new queer characters of color in its first season, but media conversations about the show have largely remained driven by white points of view. So, we set out to change that.
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Top 10 “A Black Lady Sketch Show” Sketches to Send You Into the Weekend Laughing
Have you caught up on A Black Lady Sketch Show yet? If not, why are you robbing yourself of joy?
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“A Black Lady Sketch Show” Is Queer, Brilliant and Ridiculously Funny
A Black Lady Sketch Show recognizes that “black ladies” come across a variety of gender identities and sexualities. Black lesbians are funny. Black queer women are funny. Black trans women are funny. And we aren’t going anywhere, any time soon.
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“195 Lewis” Is a Love Letter to Black, Queer Brooklyn
What I can say, with the utmost love, is that this series feels like Brooklyn. It feels like the Brooklyn that raised me and protected me as a young woman. It feels like Sisterhood. It’s funny and smart and bright and challenging.
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Spike Lee’s Queer-ish Remake of “She’s Gotta Have It” Would Have Been Better Without Spike Lee
Autostraddle Staff Writers Carmen and Alaina in a conversation about the TV series, the legacy of Spike Lee’s work, black female representation on film, polyamory, and pansexuality.
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We Lost One of TV’s Most Important Lesbian Characters When “Survivor’s Remorse” Got Axed
The conversation of multi-dimensional black thought, and questions of isolation or not feeling “black enough”, is one that a lot black people are familiar with. It’s smart and nuanced. It’s also a conversation that fundamentally could not be filtered through a white lens. It could not exist on a television show that wasn’t like this.
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QTPOC Roundtable: TV and Movie Characters That Made Us Feel Seen
“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”
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“Queen Sugar” Is a Black Feminist Masterclass That’s Coming Back to Your TV TONIGHT
“It is, and I say this without any hyperbole or doubt, the closest I have EVER come on television to seeing a love that looks mine and looks like how I express it. Ever. Ever. EVER.”
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“Brown Girls” Shows Women of Color Coming of Age in a Way We Never Get to See on TV
Hollywood’s reluctance to tell the stories of brown girls has always been rooted in — well, racism; but more precisely— the myth that white stories are neutral and, as such, are more relatable to the broader audience. Brown Girls disproves that myth, creating an imminently relatable coming-of-age story.
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“Queen Sugar” Does Black Lives Matter Storytelling Right
Unlike Orange Is the New Black, Queen Sugar’s approach to Black Lives Matter storytelling works because it doesn’t resort to excessive violence or torture porn to make its point.