Results for: meet up
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Movie Review: “Hotline” Is All About Real Human Connection
Hotline is a film about listening as healing work. In this world where we see life through a filter-washed snap posted to Instagram and Facebook, it may take talking to a complete stranger to be heal the isolation and disconnection we are all susceptible to.
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40 Movies About Space, Ranked
This past week I saw both Interstellar and Theory of Everything. One was really good and the other reminded me of all the bad space movies I’ve ever seen.
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Hollywood Is Ready For Trans Characters, But Not Trans Actors
Two more films featuring transgender characters will be out this year, but neither of them are played by trans actors. Hollywood seems ready to use trans stories, but remains uncomfortable with trans people on screen.
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1 Queer Girl + 10-Day LGBTQ Film Festival + 20 Tons of Popcorn = These Movies You Need To Watch
I am in an extended food coma from 10 days of eating nothing but fast food and concession stand snacks. Send help. But first, check out these lesbian romcoms, queer comedies and dramas.
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“Pride” Movie Review: This Lesbian Supports Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
Finally, a movie about gay pride in the 80s that isn’t about gay pride in the 80s.
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Meet Maki Yamazaki, Your New Favourite Nerdy Queer Non-Monogamousaurus
For 24 hours, watch Maki’s video only here on Autostraddle dot com as part of Patchwork, a series exploring trans lives in Britain.
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Women That Go Bump In the Night: Lady-Monsters Of Cinema
Let’s have a frank, honest discussion about queer and feminist themes in movies about vampires, werewolves, ghosts and centaurs. Also, “Chopper Chicks In Zombietown.”
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I Wanna Give Back “The Giver”: Top Ten Feelings About A Truly Godawful Cinematic Experience
I would like to lose the memory of that time I saw “The Giver,” please.
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Six Reasons to Stop What You’re Doing and Watch “Lyle”
There is a new horror movie out right this very minute called Lyle that takes its cue from Rosemary’s Baby, and you must see it as soon as humanly possible.
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Movie Review: In “Breastmilk,” Women’s Bodies Are Still Not Their Own
So much of our cultural rhetoric around breastfeeding is tied to a sense of what women should be doing rather than what they would like to or are even able to do. Breastfeeding isn’t purely a medical issue, but neither is it a wholly moral one. And all the parameters that go into a woman’s decision to breastfeed pale next to the fear that she is somehow failing her child.
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Rhymes With Witches: Bryan Fuller’s Slacker Goddesses, Jaye and George
Before I could watch Mindy Kaling wear pajamas while eating fast food all day or Ilana Glazer taking naps during her job in Broad City, I had Jaye Tyler and George Lass.
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Rhymes With Witches: The Teen Royalty of The Pink Ladies
You know a girl gang means business when there’s a uniform requirement.
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Rhymes With Witches: Wednesday Addams
“With all those things and an endless supply of witty comebacks, Wednesday is a breath of fresh air to a generation of girls who felt like outcasts that didn’t fit the mold of a perfect girly-girl.”
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Movie Review: Biopic “Reaching For The Moon” Lets Us See Elizabeth Bishop in Love
“Reaching For The Moon” is a biopic about the turbulent relationship between American lesbian poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Yep, it’s just as good as it sounds.
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Rhymes With Witches: The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy in “Saved!”
This dichotomy has been analyzed in numerous papers and books, but none do it with as much flair and fun as the teen cult classic, “Saved!”.
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Rhymes With Witches: Making Frenemies With Pretty Persuasion’s Kimberly Joyce
Come take a walk on the wild side (switchblade not included) to explore the evil anti-heroine from Pretty Persuasion and why I love her.
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“Lizzie Borden Took An Axe” Movie Recap: More Like Take A Nap, Amirite
Get ready to settle in with Christina Ricci, Clea Duvall, Quinn Fabray’s dad, and Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual’s dad from Once and Again and watch some bloody crimes get committed!
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Here’s The Real Story of How Oscar Nominee Jared Leto Got Called Out for Transmisogyny At The Virtuosos Awards
It’s been reported that Jared Leto was heckled by a trans woman at the recent Virtuosos Awards for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club. This version of events fails once again to take into account the experiences of actual trans and gendernonconforming people, who were there at the event and have spoken to Autostraddle about what transpired.
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Rhymes with Witches: Dazed and Confused’s Darla Marks Is No Ordinary Queen Bee
“Geared with fruity roll-on lip gloss and knee high socks, Darla works at the helm of the barbaric ritual with such ferocity it’s hard to believe she’s just a teenage girl.”
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I Went to Futuristic Queerness with Sistah Sinema And I Loved It
Get ready to launch into a sci-fi future on film, as imagined by queers of color! Watch those films online and check out Sistah Sinema’s upcoming Valentine’s Day screenings.