Results for: the real l word
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Monday Roundtable: Still Holding On
We’ve packed and unpacked these items through several apartments, hung them up with care, and regularly touch the sleeves contemplatively although today could be the day. Reader, it’s not going to be the day! The day is not coming. Yet we can’t let go of these garments. Why not!
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Monday Roundtable: Queer Culture We Just Can’t Get Into
“Look, I’m sorry! Every year the concept of pride sounds great in theory and then when it actually rolls around, it’s like New Years Eve on acid.”
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Monday Roundtable: Say My Name
“The thing is, if the people in your life respect you, they’ll give you the space to figure out where you’re comfortable. It’s YOUR name. You’re the person who has deal with it every second of your life.”
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Monday Roundtable: The Ships We’d Still Go Down With
Here are the queer lady ships that made us/destroyed us; what are yours?
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Monday Roundtable: The Real and Fictional Couples Who Inspired Our Very First Relationship Goals
Whether we saw them on screen or in real life, we took notice of these dynamic couples and their undeniable chemistry and love.
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Monday Roundtable: Our First Online Communities
“I also spent some time writing an intentionally awful Snape/Dobby/Giant Squid love triangle short story because sometimes you have to make your own fun.”
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Monday Roundtable: What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy?
“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”
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A-Camp 2018, We Hold You In Our Hearts: The Autostraddle Roundtable
“I feel like this camp everyone really got to be their best, most honest and weirdest selves — for instance, and bear with me, when Sam and Riese and I created an intense trivia experience centered entirely around cults, true crime and murder and not only did people show up but many of the questions were TOO EASY FOR THEM.”
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A+ Roundtable: Our First Time Watching Porn
Here’s all the good, bad and the ugly about our first time viewing porn. Remember VHS tapes? Were we ever so young?
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Autostraddle Roundtable: The Lesbian Sex Scene That Changed My Life
“The violins kept getting more and more excited and so did I and by the end of that three-minute scene I was gay.”
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A+ Roundtable: Internalized Homophobia and Other Endearing Forms of Low-Key Self-Hatred
Unpacking internalized homophobia (and lesbophobia, and biphobia, and transphobia, and misogyny, and MORE) is hard, but for you we did our best!
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Autostraddle Roundtable: We Love Documentaries
These are the documentaries that changed our lives and/or made us better people and/or entertained us. Maybe you’ll like them too!
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Are You Ten Years Ago: We Remember Tegan & Sara’s “The Con,” Which Changed Our Lives
“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”
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Masculine-of-Center Roundtable: How We Do It and What It Means To Us
“To me, being masculine-of-center means boyishness, it means blurring gender lines, it means a more vulnerable and delicate form of masculinity. It gives me the freedom to not fulfill expectations based on my assigned gender and body.”
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Monday Roundtable: I Was Not Myself Those Days
We all have periods of time in our lives when we find ourselves conforming to an identity or a style that isn’t quite… us.
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What Do You Do When You’re Home Alone?
Sometimes living with other people, even loved ones, can prevent you from doing the things your heart really wants — like being completely naked in your living room or kitchen, for example.
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Roundtable: Our Long and Winding Career Paths
“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”