Results for: representation
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Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer TV Couples of 2022
Love remains not a lie here in 2022!
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Slow Takes: “In My Skin” and the Value of Second Chances
The second and final series of In My Skin is one of the best seasons of television I’ve ever seen.
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Lena Waithe on “Master of None” and Making Messy Beautiful Black Lesbian Art
“I wasn’t afraid to make myself the villain. I wasn’t afraid to make Denise not likable at times, because even in doing that, my hope is that you will see yourself.”
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Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2022
You ever heard of Max Chapman?
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Jen Richards on Changing Hollywood and the Projects That Don’t Get Made
“I can be very unchecked in my opinions. And I don’t regret it. I’ve told casting directors in the room that parts are problematic or that projects shouldn’t get made.”
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Vote Now In Autostraddle’s 4th Annual TV Awards
The time has come to cast your vote for the very best in LGBTQ Television! Because a Television Academy of mostly cis, straight white men don’t speak for us.
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Yes, Chaotic Queers Are Still Watching “The L Word: Generation Q” With Their Exes
“It will probably be sexy and unhealthy for both of us.”
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Joss Whedon and JK Rowling Don’t Own My Queer Narratives
Whedon and Rowling don’t get to lay claim to the stories we wrote, whether they were in fan fiction, on forums, or even just in our own, quiet thoughts. We own the narratives that give us meaning.
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A Love Letter to the Women of SNL, All of Whom Have Been Extremely Hot
Let’s hop in my time machine and discuss what makes the women of SNL so hot — without once discussing their looks.
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I Still Can’t Believe “Friends” Was The First Time I Saw Myself On-Screen
Friends was the first time I saw my transness on TV, but it wasn’t Chandler’s dad — it was Chandler.
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Shakina Nayfack on Her New Audible Play, NBC’s “Connecting…,” and Forming Trans Community Through Art
“I’m throwing them a few bones of facts and things to know. But I’m also calling them to a higher order. Luring them in with the pussy and then challenging them with postcolonial theory.”
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With Javicia Leslie’s Batwoman, My Favorite Character Is Finally Being Played by Someone Who Looks Like Me
“Like many people of color and queer people, I’ve found ways to relate to a character that is nothing like me. As a poor, fat, Black queer woman I had seemingly nothing in common with a rich orphaned straight white man.”
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“Clarice” Proves There’s No Such Thing As a Progressive Procedural
The Silence of the Lambs was right. Trans women and law enforcement are enemies. All it got wrong was the villain.
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P-Valley Has Changed the Rules of Black Queer Storytelling
A roundtable between four queer black writers about THEE show of the summer that united exceptional storytelling, with blackness and queerness and southernness, in ways we’ve never seen before.
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I Remain A “Catfish” Queer: On Love, The Midwest, and What We Think We Deserve
“Catfish has been serving diverse, bittersweet queer representation for almost a decade and it seems like nobody notices.”
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Presenting the Winners of the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards!
We might not come with a fancy in-person ceremony or physical trophies, but as mainstream awards continue to overlook groundbreaking LGBTQ+ series, we vitally fill a gap in the television awards pomp and circumstance.
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Scarlet Screens: The Fallen Tracee and Sex Industry Labor Rights in “The Sopranos”
In the first essay in Scarlet Screens, we look at the “University” episode of the Sopranos, where Ralphie murders Tracee. We explore the labor conditions at the Bada Bing Club, Tony’s “humanity,” and how violence against sex workers is used as plot point.
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Autostraddle March Madness: Canon vs. Fanon – Grown
In the spirit of continuing to make Autostraddle March Madness more interactive, I’ve reached out to some fanfic writers to offer their thoughts on what makes their favorite subjects worth shipping.
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On Blackness and “The L Word: Generation Q”
Black queer people are in this community. Trans queer people are in this community. And we deserve to get lost in a good time, too. We deserve fun, messy, sexy storylines. Just as much as any cis white woman over 50.
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Autostraddle March Madness: Canon vs. Fanon – Sci-Fi/Fantasy
So many gays in superhero suits and space!