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Buffy (and Other Strong Female Characters) Are Saving the World Offscreen, Too

As it turns out, watching strong women kick ass is good for society and your mental health.

Malaika September 5, 2012 27 Comments
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GLAAD 2012 Network Responsibility Index: Why Do Queer Women On Television All Look The Same?

Seriously, where the hell are all the butches?

Kate September 1, 2012 113 Comments
TV Feature

“Words With Girls” Episode 4: Homophobic

Episode 4 of “Words With Girls” is out and Hannah is not happy with there being lesbians at a lesbian party.

Brittani August 29, 2012 30 Comments
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The Real L Word’s Lauren and Amanda Have Brains and Beauty: The Autostraddle Interview

There’s something about Lamanda.

Kate August 18, 2012 110 Comments
TV Feature

VIDEO: Autotstraddle Presents The Whitney Mixter Self-Inquiry Supercut

Does Whitney Mixter of “The Real L Word” ask herself a lot of questions? Yes. Who put all these questions into a video supercut for you, watching all of Seasons One and Two without dying of alcohol poisoning? This guy.

Lemon August 10, 2012 31 Comments
TV Feature

Evil Cylon Somer Bingham Infiltrates The Real L Word: The Autostraddle Interview

“Get ready to do meta-reality somersaults about sci fi, chihuahua tossing, and Russian literature.”

Crystal August 1, 2012 36 Comments
TV Feature

Teen Choice Awards 2012 Liveblog and Open Thread

Is there anything I love better than teen marketed award shows?

Lizz July 22, 2012 17 Comments
TV Feature

Girl/Girl Scene’s Second Season Is Here, Queer, Soapy as Hell

“Girl/Girl Scene” brings you Season 2 of the girl-on-girl scene in Lexington, Kentucky.

Whitney Pow July 21, 2012 20 Comments
TV Feature

Does “The Newsroom” Have a Woman Problem, Or Is It About The Problem?

Criticism aimed at “The Newsroom” for not respecting its female characters might be missing the larger picture.

Gabrielle Korn July 20, 2012 22 Comments
Movie Features TV Feature

Dispatches From Ballroom 20: All Day, All The Panels

In which Ash tells you everything you missed before the Firefly reunion at San Diego Comic Con.

Ash July 18, 2012 10 Comments
TV Feature

VIDEO: It’s Autostraddle’s “Real L Word” Season 2 Parody!

Season 3 of The Real L Word just premiered, so we’re being avant garde and are finally releasing the SEASON TWO PARODY VIDEO OH MY GOD.

Alex July 18, 2012 73 Comments
TV Feature

The Semi-Official “Real L Word” Season Three Drinking Game

Just in case you weren’t already planning on it.

Riese July 12, 2012 41 Comments
TV Feature

VIDEO: Our New Webseries “Words With Girls” Is Here, Now Co-Starring Hannah Hart!

Remember that webseries Brittani created and Sarah Croce directed? It’s back. Words With Girls Episode 2 now available for your face with some surprise Hannah Hart action.

Brittani June 27, 2012 43 Comments
Issues TV Feature

When After School Specials Made Gay People Seem Not-So-Special

Curated video from 80’s and 90’s afterschool specials in which being gay was a lot like being a tornado or a flesh-eating virus.

Riese June 19, 2012 27 Comments
TV Feature

The Real L Word’s Nikki & Jill Are Having a Baby: The Autostraddle Interview

Jess chats with the couple about camp, the reality TV experience, the upcoming election, finding an anonymous sperm donor, Smash, Oprah, their Real L Word comrades and — in an Autostraddle exclusive — the sex of their baby, due in October!

Jess May 31, 2012 53 Comments
TV Feature

The Newtown Girls Interview And Season Finale

Australian actors Renee Lim (Alex) and Debra Ades (Scarlet) open up about their experiences shooting The Newtown Girls. Also, watch the season finale!

Crystal May 15, 2012 6 Comments
TV Feature

Listicle: Nineteen Reasons I’ve Been Given To Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“GIRLS MAKING OUT. GIRLS MAKING OUT EVERYWHERE. ALSO VAMPIRES.”

Intern Grace March 10, 2012 134 Comments
TV Feature

The Peculiar Kind: Queer Women of Color Represent!

“The Peculiar Kind says something a lot of us already know but few of us ever really talk about: the fact that activism can look like anything, that we feel for our work and fight for our causes, but we also find comfort in each other.”

phoenix March 1, 2012 16 Comments
TV Feature

VIDEO: The Real (Enough) L Word (Parody) is Here… Almost

Just when you’d totally forgotten that “The Real L Word” exists at all, here’s a teaser for our parody, because everybody loves a good tease…

Sarah Croce February 6, 2012 40 Comments
TV Feature

Krisily Kennedy Likes Girls: The Autostraddle Interview

It all started when Krisily met a girl at a dog park who turned out to be an actress with a job on a television show where she played a character named “Shane.”

Jess January 5, 2012 272 Comments
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