Results for: queer parenting
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Mae Martin on “Sap,” Camping, and Finding Queer Community
“Moose are kind of like the hippos of the land. They’re aggressive. They run really fast.”
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Murray Hill on “Somebody Somewhere” and His Decades-Long Career in Showbiz
“To me, showbiz means the spotlight is on you. And not only is the spotlight on you, but you’re feeling the light. You’re feeling the light and then you’re giving the light.”
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“And I Said to God, Isn’t Being Black Enough? Do I Have To Be Gay Too?”
“The truth of our history is that gay, lesbian, and gender-expansive people were normal and recognized in the Black community.”
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After Decades of Queer Filmmaking, Patricia Rozema Is Still Full of Ideas
“I’m mesmerized by how we need stories like we need air. When humans have time off, when they don’t have to feed themselves or their children, and they have a moment, they go to stories.”
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Michelle Tea on Queer Pregnancy and Writing a Memoir in Present Tense
“I really want it to feel like you fell down a rabbit hole into this world, because that’s how I felt. That was the reality of the experience for me.”
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Annette Haywood-Carter on “Foxfire,” Filmmaking, and Being a Queer Woman in Hollywood
After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.
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Creative Interviewing Creatives: Mint Simon Is the Non-Binary Voice the Music Industry and Queer Community Both Need
Mint Simon, the brand new solo project from the lead singer of alternative pop trio Caveboy, talks with me about finding fluidity in gender and sexuality during quarantine and re-emerging more themselves than ever.
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Jane Schoenbrun on “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and Making Art Amid Transition
“In the 90s, everyone was telling kids they could be anything they wanted to be. But when people saw who I wanted to be they were like, maybe not that though, maybe that’s a little much.”
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The Dyke Kitchen: Defining Taste With Karen Tongson
Tongson’s personal cooking style relies on saving the ingredients or parts that traditionally, institutionally have less value — “something that you think is burdened by indignity, cheapness and trash” — and finding her own perfect application that proves otherwise. “Sometimes it is relevant to bring in the conversation that Nietzsche started, in relation to Britney Spears,” she says with a laugh.
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Anishinaabe/Cree Artist Jayli Wolf on What Her New Single Says About the Sixties Scoop
Jayli Wolf talks about the video for her new single “Child of the Government” drawing from her family’s experiences of the Sixties Scoop, as well as how her bisexual identity impacts her relationships and career.
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Queer Latina Tiffany Cabán Is Running For NYC Council, Bringing Hope To 2021
She ran a progressive campaign for Queens DA that put New York’s establishment on notice, and now has NYC Council in sight. “It’s not about good people or bad people, it’s just about people. We need to divest from policing and incarceration and invest in the true sources of safety.”
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Ìfé Writer and Director Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim on Decolonizing Nigerian Storytelling and Queer Love Stories
“Ìfé is a story that not many queer people have seen come out of Nigeria. I’m really hoping that, apart from everything else that it does – normalizing the queer experience and being a great source of representation – I’m really hoping that it brings joy to the LGBT community.”
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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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Queer Arabs Taking Up Space: An Interview With Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the bi Arab romance novel l didn’t know I needed. We chat about the book, first-gen traumas, sexual ambiguity and Arab parents.
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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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Mae Martin on “Feel Good,” Labels, and Getting Kicked Off Hinge
“When I read the interviews I’m like this doesn’t sound funny at all. But I swear it is. Just watch the show.”
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A Candid Conversation About Queers in the Labor Movement with Longtime Union Activists Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb
In 1990, Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb released Pride At Work, a booklet on organizing for gay and lesbian rights in the workplace. They spoke with Autostraddle about their lives, this “naughty little pamphlet,” and the future of queer labor organizing. Plus, for the first time ever, the full 100-page pamphlet is being released online – right in this post!
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Respect Your Elders: Zoom With Lesbian Activist Phyllis “Seven” Harris
“So keep on living. Get on the other side of this. There’s more.”
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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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Mae Martin on “Feel Good,” Dating, and What They’re Doing In Quarantine
“Everyone is going to want to have orgies after this.”