Results for: representation
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Never Have I Ever’s Queer South Asian Representation Is a Cop Out
The writers seem more interested in giving fans the pairing they wanted to see after season two rather than developing Aneesa as a nuanced character in her own right.
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“The Boys” Season 2 Gets Meta About Lesbian and Bisexual Representation
Elena pushes back on all this, saying she doesn’t want to change how she dresses and that actually Maeve is bisexual, but they say that the term lesbian is “an easier sell” because it’s “more cut and dry.”
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Mal Blum on Writing Music for “Trinkets,” Queer Representation, and the Trans Narratives of Bruce Springsteen
“Whether it’s the gay internet or a show like ‘Trinkets’ it makes it easier to be like maybe I’m not the one that’s wrong. Maybe everyone around me is wrong.”
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“Visible: Out on Television” Is a Must-See Docuseries on the History of LGBTQ Representation on TV
One part love letter, one part history lesson, one part all-star roster of LGBTQ TV icons.
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Andor’s Lesbian Couple and the Messy History of Queerness in the Star Wars Universe
To say that Star Wars’ march toward having any sort of visible queer representation has been fraught would be an understatement.
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Willow Rosenberg Is Your Autostraddle March Madness 2024 ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Champion!
Willow’s win is a testament to the way representation, and our first encounters with it, imprints upon a person. There’s something unshakeable about our connections to the first time we see ourselves. It’s deeper than just nostalgia.
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‘Renegade Nell’ Stands and Delivers on Fun, But Not on Gay Content
“Played by Derry Girl Louisa Harland, Nell Jackson is a fierce, funny, sarcastic woman with no interest in behaving the way people of her time think women should behave.”
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Daniel Sea on Max’s Return to “The L Word: Generation Q”
“My wish was for Max’s present to reflect more of a life like mine. I don’t hang out with mostly cis people, I don’t hang out with mostly white people. Diverse is such a weird word but my community is mixed and diverse in all sorts of ways. That’s my queer community.”
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Vote Now in the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards!
Welcome to the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards (previously known as the Gay Emmys)! These awards are meant to celebrate the best of television — through a lens of LGBTQ+ representation.
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I’ll Watch Anything Where the Black Girls Kiss
There have only been 46 times — out of 169 characters — when a Black queer character was paired with a Black partner on television. Only six have had multiple Black partners.
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Amazon Cancels “A League of Their Own” Season 2, Turns Out There Is Crying in Baseball
Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson created something truly special with A League of Their Own, and I will never forgive Amazon for calling the game before it was over, especially when it seemed like we were finally going to win.
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The Traitors Season Two Reunion Recap: Peppermint Underscores the Biases That Led to Her Elimination
“It kind of eerily reminded me of a high school experience where I was the only out LGBTQ person at the time,” Peppermint says.
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Will ‘Baby Reindeer’ Welcome a New Era of Complex Television?
We cannot fight stigmas around transness, queerness, and surviving abuse by reducing the complexities of life into rules and checklists.
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“Never Have I Ever Season Four” Stepped Right Into the Affirmative Action Debate
As in previous seasons, it’s hard not to feel that a show that’s theoretically about raising the profile of an often-misrepresented racial minority in America, instead completely misrepresents racism as it exists in America.
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Marsha Warfield Takes Her Place in the Parthenon of Black Queer Women on Television
“When you’re standing on the mountain, and been climbing it as long as I have, you can look back and say, ‘no baby, we’ve come a long way.'” I had the pleasure of talking to Ms. Warfield ahead of her triumphant return as Roz in tonight’s Night Court season finale.
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The Hot Lesbian on “LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland” Should Have Won
Catherine Bohart has gained at least one new follower and fan.
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“Living For the Dead” Trailer: Kristen Stewart Ghost Hunting Show Looks Like So Gay Dude
“Kristen Stewart ghost hunting show” is not something we made up in a peak pandemic fever dream.Â
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Beyond Gender Identity: A History of Trans Actors in Cis Roles
I’m talking about stories where the trans character’s transness isn’t the focus — where they’re allowed to be the worst behaved one or simply hot and getting laid or just really fucking good at their job.
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The Essay I Wrote About Santana Lopez When I Was 19 and Closeted, Annotated by My Present Self
Read the 700-word essay I wrote for a zine in college about queer representation on Glee even though at the time I identified as STRAIGHT.
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Yes, “Griselda” On Netflix Is Bisexual — But Does That Matter?
What’s the line between the raw knuckled ambition of greed and capitalism that are at the root of crime genres, and the slimy, glamorous girlboss-ification of a notorious killer?