Results for: love is a lie
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WAP Is Still Bringing Wet Ass Joy To Queer Black Twitter
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion set Queer Black Twitter ablaze with WAP. The lyrics, the video, and strong femme sexuality have kept it on replay — and give us permission to be audacious in the pursuit of pleasure.
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VIDEO! Hayley Kiyoko Casts a Spell On Our Summer Crush Blues With “I Wish”
Ah summer. When the melancholy heartbreak of the cooler seasons is replaced with frantic lust and desperation. But you can stop crying over whoever it is you’re crying over. Because only one person matters now. Lesbian Jesus herself. Hayley Kiyoko.
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Meet Cutting Room Floor, Your New Favorite Self-Described Sad Gay Band
If you’re looking for Cutting Room Floor on social media, you’ll find them under the moniker “Sad Gay Band.” It’s sort of a joke, it’s also not an exaggeration – it might even be an understatement, both with regard to being gay and to being sad. Sink/Swim is their latest album, and it’s been over three years in the making.
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Janelle Monáe’s “Dirty Computer” Is Finally Here and Even Queerer Than We Imagined
Janelle Monáe made an album just for me and you, and it’s your solemn duty as a queer woman to go and listen to it right at this very second and share all your thoughts and emotions in the comments.
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5 New Releases From Queer and Trans Artists To Ready You For Spring
New music for flirting or lonely lesbian nights. Your call!
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Ani DiFranco Has a Song From 20 Years Ago That Works For This Moment
With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.
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Vivek Shraya’s New Album “Part-Time Woman” Is a Binary-Breaking Love Letter
Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s identity in private intertwined with the pain of objectification and sexual violence.
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Thank you, Chester Bennington: The Queer Strength I Found in Linkin Park
“Chester Bennington’s anger was so present and so empathic. It told me it was okay that I had it too— that I wasn’t alone, that my feelings were normal. It replaced my fear, and it helped me survive.”
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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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Hayley Kiyoko Shares a New Unrequited Queer Girl Love Anthem With “Sleepover”
In this newest video, Kiyoko takes center stage as the queer protagonist of her video and her song, singing about the difficult feelings of a queer woman who develops feelings for a friend.
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Breaking Up and Making Out With Julia Nunes’ “Some Feelings”
“Your heart breaks or you realize it’s been broken all along. All this time!”
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Mixtapes We Really Made When We Were Teenagers: A Roundtable
The Autostraddle staff has gone through their tapes, CDs and playlists to share a little corner of their past selves.
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Lost Loves and Missed Connections: The Mixtape
It’s lovely and strange how a song can cast light on memories of people you haven’t thought about in years, can press urgently on that soft sad spot we carry for our past.
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Dead End Justice: What Went Wrong With The Runaways
Joan Jett, quit breaking my heart.
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Outside Lands 2014: A Photo Diary Straight From the Trees
Tegan and Sara, detox crafts, Baconland and TREES.
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Nicki Minaj’s Feminism Isn’t About Your Comfort Zone: On “Anaconda” and Respectability Politics
The Feminist Internet is, as usual, scrambling to decide: empowering, or not empowering? If anyone had actually been paying attention to Nicki all these years, they’d already know the answer.
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BPM: Disclosure and a Corpse Reviver #2
Is it pop because there are so many catchy hooks? Is it rock because it has that new wave-y grungy garage sound? Is it electronic music because it has synthetic drums and cymbals, deep bass drums, and clap tracks that have the authenticity of a sitcom laugh track?
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Playlist: Everything’s Changing and You’re Excited but Also Terrified
Won’t you join me in clinging to the past while yearning for the future?
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What St. Vincent Has Been Telling Us All Along: Gender in Juxtaposition
Quotes from a new Rolling Stone cover story just make explicit the themes she’s been shredding about for years.