“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 104: Longing
Did you know that the Autostraddle.com post for each episode of To L and Back contains a VERY useful index of ideas and trivia referenced in the episode? Because it does!
Arts + Pop Culture
How To Change Your Hair Dramatically After a Breakup
Seize control of your image! Be hot as a form of revenge! Do it for you! Just feel good about something in a time when it’s so easy to feel bad about everything!
“To L and Back” Special Episode: A Delightful Interview With Guinevere Turner
“I was always saying like: I want more drugs, I want more trans people and I want dildos!”
Boobs on Your Tube: Cameron Esposito Almost Breaks Rosa’s Heart on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Plus: Petra woos JR some more, a season wrap-up on Madam Secretary, a witchy revelation on Charmed, Hen saves the day on 9-1-1, and a polyamorous bisexual surprise (in a good way!) on S.W.A.T.!
Things I Read That I Love #288: They Emerged To Twist Thirst From A Cloying Wish Into Full-Bodied Desire
Topics include Ramona Quimby, female thirst, dentistry, Christian Moms who make money selling printables on their blogs, murderabilia, women outside, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and more!
Taylor Swift Didn’t Come Out But She Sure Did Make a Gay Music Video
Rainbows, a thousand women in suits and ties, unicorns, cats on cats on cats.
Let’s Talk About Star Trek Discovery: Hot Women in Space
Riese and Kayla talk about that Season Two finale, pros/cons re: Discovery in general, our hopes for the future, Tig Notaro in space, Three Hot Mommies and more pressing Star Trek processing.
Queer Your Ears April 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
It’s a great time to be queer and/or trans music fan! There was SO MUCH incredible music to cover this month.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Under, and Lost
Carmen Maria Machado, writers’ roles in addressing climate change, why you don’t need to publish a book by 30, a liberated Cinderella, and more!
8 Crime Books Featuring Women Loving Women & Other Queer People
These awesome eight crime books, including mysteries, thrillers, and true crime, all feature queer women!
Charmed’s Witchy Women of Color Lesbian Love Triangle Deserves All Your Attention
With just two episodes left this season, I made you a Charmed Cheat Sheet, filled with all the important details of this topsy turvy magical world.
Edie Windsor Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW
“Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are.”
Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson and Brie Larson Broke The Lesbian Internet With Their Red Carpet Canoodling
Plus: Robyn Crawford is writing a book about her life with Whitney, Younger’s season six trailer, Peabody Awards for Killing Eve and Pose, Barbara Lopez is hyped on winning March Madness, and more!
No Filter: Evan Rachel Wood Is a Muppet IRL
In which we hit the pool with Janelle Monaé, enjoy Tessa Thompson cosplaying as Prince, and try to figure out what the hell’s going on between Emily Hampshire and Teddy Geiger.
“Daddy Issues” Is a Very Queer Very Good Movie
The first IMDb user review for Daddy Issues is titled “Heterophobic movie.” I cannot argue. I also cannot complain. May we blessed with an entire career of heterophobic movies from this properly queer filmmaker.
Queer to Queer: A Live Comedy Read from the Very Lesbian Diaries of Anne Lister
Calling all nerdy sluts in Los Angeles!
“Clink” Hopes to Step Into the Women’s Prison Drama Gap Left by “Wentworth” and “OITNB”
If life’s taught me anything, it’s that even the straightest-seeming woman can shuffle into a fictional prison meek as a lamb, and five seasons later is striding the corridors as Top Dog with a hot blonde on her arm.
Find Your Fit: The 30-Year-Old Leaning Into Quirky, Adult Androgyny
“My early 20s was all about 1950s vintage librarian looks (fit n’ flare dresses, patterned tights, cardigans) but in the last year (legitimately writing this to you on my 30th birthday), I’ve found myself leaning towards a much more androgynous style.”
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 412 Recap: As Is
Sara dives into Ava’s personal Purgatory to work out their issues and save her girl.
“JT LeRoy”: Kristen Stewart Is Phenomenal But Everything This Movie Tries To Say About Gender Is Bad
JT LeRoy is not a great movie. In fact, it’s pretty bad. And yet in so many ways it’s the perfect JT LeRoy movie, the inevitable conclusion to this whole twisted saga.