Results for: comics
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Remaking Myself and My Desires on the Comics Page
An exploration of how this cartoonist came into her bisexuality by seeing her desires made manifest in others’ art and decided to make herself seen through her own art.
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“Flung Out of Space” Grapples With Patricia Highsmith’s Misanthropic Lesbian Life
Patricia Highsmith liked three things: women, writing, and cigarettes.
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A Quick and Easy Guide to Making Consent Exciting, Not Scary: An Interview with Isabella Rotman on Her New Book
Rotman’s comic A Quick and Easy Guide to Consent is a fun, well-written, and much needed refresher that I strongly recommend to anyone with a body that wants to connect with others and their bodies.
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Yao Xiao’s “Everything Is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid” Is as Queer and Hopeful as The Comic You Already Love
Everything Is Beautiful is one part beloved comics, one part brand new material, and all parts trademark Yao Xiao — warm colors, probing questions, deeply personal reflections, and an endless exploration of the binaries Yao has spent her life trying to navigate.
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It Should Always Include Lube: Talking with A. Andrews About “A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex & Disability”
A. Andrews’ comic A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability is a well-written, thoughtful, and enjoyable guide that I strongly recommend to all disabled and able-bodied people alike
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“My Two Lesbian Ants” Will Carry You Through Christmas
Behold! Great tidings of comfort and joy!
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“Birds of Prey” Is the Chaotic Sparkly Queer Misandrist Comic Book Movie of My Dreams
With two on-screen queer women characters, “Birds of Prey” is an irate, sparkle laden, middle finger in the air to a society that otherwise cowers to the angry whims of men. Who the hell wouldn’t sign up for that?
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Scenes from a Gender 05: The Prehatching Years
I was mortified, to be sure, but also honored and validated, to be on the girls’ team. And oh yes, honey – I’ve never left.
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Kate Leth’s “Valley Ghouls” Is the Bisexual Slice of Life Comic You Need Right Now
It’s sweet and funny and poignant and absolutely an antidote to the cynicism and over-curation of social media these days.
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100 LGBTQ+ Women, Nonbinary and Transmasc Celebrities Killing It In Suits
Whether you’re looking for eye candy or fashion inspo, here’s 100+ lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans women, nonbinary people and trans men looking great in suits!
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Lez Liberty Lit: A Gaping MAW
A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.
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Pop Culture Fix: One Year of JoJo Siwa Being Gay
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne are making a second lesbian movie, Tessa Thompson and the many layers of identity, Jasmin Savoy Brown is having a moment, and more!
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In “SFSX,” Tina Horn Builds a Purity-Obsessed Sci-Fi Vision of our Dystopian Present
Autostraddle recently spoke with Tina Horn via video call to chat about the first volume of SFSX, her myriad influences, building community around art, the sex worker rights’ movement, and incels.
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Pop Culture Fix: Trans Superhero Dreamer Flies From Screen to Page
Nicole Maines co-wrote Superman: Son of Kal-El #13, which officially introduced Dreamer into the DC comic-verse!! Plus, Lily and Ola won’t return for Sex Education’s fourth season, a new show from the creator of First Kill, and more.
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The Multifaceted Masculinity of the Dream Daddy Comics
“I can simply rest in this strange and beautiful world of homosexual daddies with expansive definitions of what it means to be masculine; given how raw and terrible I feel as I continue to come out as trans, continue to lift up the rocks within myself and peer under them, this is what I need.”
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Foolish Child #100 🎉
I don’t often say much just as myself, outside of these drawings, but I want to express my appreciation for all of the support and love I have received over the past five years. I am eternally grateful to every single person I have met and interacted with along the way.
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It’s Time to Give Harley Quinn a Girlfriend on the Big Screen Already
Not only is fan uproar begging for Big Screen Harley and Ivy, but for the first time, the actual plot in front of us is screaming for it, too. It’s now or never for Harley Quinn to make the leap, and we’re quickly reaching a crescendo in her movie arc where to do anything else would be cowardly.
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Ava DuVernay’s “Naomi” Is Here and Queer (and Absolutely Gorgeous)
It’s not the first time DuVernay has added queer characters to a pre-existing canvas: in 2016, she added Nova Bordelon, a bisexual journalist/activist, to the world Natalie Baszile created in Queen Sugar. The goal, the creator told television critics earlier this week, isn’t representation, it’s normalization.
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Talking with Alison Bechdel about Feminist Martial Arts, Lockdown, and Her New Book “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”
“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement. Alison Bechdel shares her process of writing this latest book over the last ten years, collaborating with her partner, and the “huge blossoming of lesbian culture.”
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Grease Bats: Sexting
“I’m sorry, is this a sext or a love poem to the moon?”