Results for: orange is the new black
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105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis
Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.
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Comedy Crush: ‘Orange is the New Black’ Writer Lauren Morelli
“There were all these different bodies and shapes and colors that came in to audition, women who had gone to Juilliard or been on Broadway, but no one wants to put them on TV because they don’t necessarily fit into a TV executive’s idea of what’s beautiful.”
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Fan Fiction Friday: Get Your Six-Legged Monkey Crawl On With These 8 “Defiance” Fics
“Stahma Tarr has undergone one of the most remarkable patriarchy-smashing story arcs I’ve ever seen, just a straight up Squib-to-Slytherin transformation that actually all started when she fell in love with another woman.”
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Here is Your 2015 Queer Lady TV Epic Infographic!
Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous womankind is! O brave new world, that has such characters in it!
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2015 Golden Globes Liveblog and Open Thread
The Poehler-Fey Trophy Ceremony is back. Let’s watch it together!
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Laverne Cox, Superstar: The Autostraddle “Orange Is The New Black” Interview
Laverne Cox talks about trans* representation in media, relating to her character and what it’s like being a trans* actress in tv.
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Getting Drunk With Lea DeLaria: The Autostraddle “Orange Is The New Black” Interview
“By the way, just to keep the record straight, I was fucking HER! She wasn’t “fucking Lea DeLaria”! I’M THE TOP!”
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How “Real” Is “Orange Is The New Black”? Comparing The Show To The Memoir To The Numbers
A look at the stories behind the stories and the humans behind the characters and the numbers behind those stories in everybody’s favorite lezalicious prison dramedy.
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Fan Fiction Friday: 7 Sexy-Sweet Faking It Fics to Light Your Yule Log
If all you want for Christmas is a little Karmy action, Santa has arrived early!
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TV In The Time of Patriarchy Traffics In Ageless Women, Age-Old Stereotypes
Do TV creators internalize the stereotypes portrayed on TV as “normal,” replicating it in their work environments and causing additional stereotyped portrayals? That’s a chicken-or-the-egg question of art imitating life imitating art.
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Going Beyond Going Down: Why Diverse Queer Sex On TV Matters
“And every time she has sex with a man, she is ass naked. Literally. I have seen her ass now twice. My problem isn’t her being ass naked. She has straight sex and is naked, but this other character has gay sex and both of them — bras on, underwear on.”
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Fan Fiction Friday: 8 Carmilla Stories To Warm Your Misanthropic Heart
And a profile with series creator Ellen Simpson, who writes all kinds of fan fiction too!
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Couch Potato: The Kit
Everything you need to maximize comfort and optimize performance for your next TV marathon.
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Fan Fiction Friday: 15 “Warehouse 13” Bering and Wells Stories to Honor Endless Wonder
Do you smell apples? I smell apples.
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Fan Fiction Friday: 10 Xena Fics to Get Your Chakram Going
Keep calm and fall in love with your sidekick, over and over and over.
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Every Lesbian On TV Has A Side Part
After hours — probably years — of research, Dannielle has concluded that every lesbian on TV has a side part. She’s meticulously compiled her evidence in the essay contained herein.
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Fan Fiction Friday: 8 Femslash Writers You Need to Know
“I struggled with my sexuality for a long time and I think it would have been so much easier if I’d seen someone like me on TV or in a movies or in books. Femslash fan fiction gave me that; the stories I read showed I wasn’t alone because other people had to think like me if they’re writing about this stuff.”
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35 Behind-The-Scenes Photos Of Lesbian Characters From Your Favorite TV Shows
Behind-the-scenes pics from teevee shows with queer storylines, from “Ellen” to “Orange is the New Black” to “Buffy” to “Pretty Little Liars” to absolutely everything in between. You’re gonna love it, we promise.
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What Do You Do With A Problem Like Romi Klinger: On Bisexuality, Biphobia and Media Representation
Recently, GO Magazine published an interview with Romi Klinger of The Real L Word regarding the current state of her relationships, her career, and the controversy surrounding her sexuality. What does one complicated public figure representing bisexuality mean for the rest of us?
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GLAAD’s “Where We Are On TV” Shows Best Place To Be On TV Is Behind The Camera
“Where We Are On TV” has some promising and not-so-promising numbers for queer women on the teevee, and also raises some questions about how we quantify “representation” in the first place for all groups.