Results for: \"queer kid stuff\"
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Author Meryl Wilsner on Writing MILFs, Age Gaps, and Twisting Tropes
“We never learned to write books, we only learn how to write the book that we’re writing.”
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Good Trouble’s Sherry Cola on Queer Asian Love Stories and Making Her Mom Proud
“I literally feel taken aback at the fact that I am telling this story that has never been told, period. I challenge everyone to name one other TV show that portrays love between two Asian women. It does not exist to this level.”
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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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Jamie Babbit on “But I’m a Cheerleader,” Barbie Sex, and Getting Bad Reviews
“That’s my whole junior high experience: No, I don’t want to be friends with you. I actually want to have sex with you.”
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Sadomasochism & Mental Health: Self-Expression
“When I was diagnosed, and realizing how it affected me outside of the way that I eat, it’s these processes throughout my day or the way that my personality functions. It isn’t that disruptive, but having the framework helped. Finding kink, having the words for it, helped contextualize the sex that I like to have, the friendships that I like to have, the dynamics that I like to have and the relationships in general.”
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Mal Blum on Writing Music for “Trinkets,” Queer Representation, and the Trans Narratives of Bruce Springsteen
“Whether it’s the gay internet or a show like ‘Trinkets’ it makes it easier to be like maybe I’m not the one that’s wrong. Maybe everyone around me is wrong.”
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Film Historian Jenni Olson on “Mädchen in Uniform,” The First Ever Lesbian Film
“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”
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Kayleigh Llewellyn and Lucy Forbes on “In My Skin,” Lesbian Adolescence, and How the Industry Needs to Change
“This industry needs an overhaul. It’s clear the time for excuses is over now and it’s going to be about action.”
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Frisky Business: Talking with Independent Queer Harness Designer Emma Alamo
The babe behind the buckles is Emma Alamo — a queer creator, a recovering alcoholic, a proud power bottom and business owner with serious hustle. Emma welcomed me into her studio and talked about social media, body image and building a career selling bondage gear.
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“The First Time”: Drew Gregory Made a Movie in Quarantine and it’s 15 Minutes of Pure Queer Bliss
The First Time is everything I’ve come to love about Drew’s writing over the last several years: smart hilarious, powerful, and deeply generous. And just heckin’ gay and trans.
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One Day at a Time Showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett on Season 4’s Pause, Elena and Syd, and Reopening Hollywood
“Watching season four episodes — the feeling of normalcy, of connection, of being able to laugh. I’m so grateful to be with our fans and live-tweet. It’s almost like Tuesdays are the only time I know what day of the week it is! I put lipstick. I feel like a real person, just to sit in the before for just a second.”
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#Dykes4Roman, Explained
An interview with Alison Roman.
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Future Present: Talking with Johanna Hedva About the Luxury of Our Needs
Why do we talk about care as a scarcity model? How do you live with ~the void~? How do we adjust to changing language for identity and in movements? Is America going to end in 2024? All this and more!
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Generation Q Showrunner Marja Lewis-Ryan On Period Sex, Why Carmen’s Not Coming Back and Dating Your Neighbor
“You can’t ask me that. Well, you can ask me. But I can’t tell you.”
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Julia Nunes Is Relentlessly Personal: On New Music, Big Changes, and Community Being Crucial
Julia Nunes has been self-producing her music for almost ten years, and her newest album “Ughwow” is a drastic change from her old sound in the best way possible. We talk about the work of being a human and how that’s showing up in her creative work lately.
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Cherríe Moraga on Delving Into Her Queer Chicana Memories in “Native Country of the Heart”
Moraga’s latest, “Native Country of the Heart,” is a deep meditation on memory — reflections of the past, recalling hard moments, losing ourselves, and remembering who we are as Mexican-Americans, in more ways than one. She spoke to Autostraddle about her new book and the journey her queer feminism has taken over the course of her career.
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Russian Doll’s Rebecca Henderson on Lizzy, Love and Working With Her Wife
Rebecca Henderson doesn’t just play gay; she’s a real-life lesbian who also happens to be married to Russian Doll co-creator/writer/director Leslye Headland.
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KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
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Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado
Talking about Kristen Stewart, gems, lesbian tropes, Girl Scout crushes, swine flu, the apocalypse and more with award-winning queer writer Carmen Maria Machado.
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So You’re Gay Now: Interview With My Childhood Best Friend, Iah
I can’t think of sixth grade without thinking of Iah. She was the friend I could never quite believe I had: smart, outspoken, well-liked across all social groups. Naturally, I always wondered what became of her.
Imagine my delight when the answer turned out to be “gay rabbi in Ohio.”