Results for: lip service
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How To Name a Lesbian or Bisexual TV Character
“Start here: Franky. Frankie. Sounds good, right?”
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Lying’s the Most Fun a Girl Can Have
“I identified as a heterosexually-inclined bisexual when I started giving hand jobs for money, and I left more or less a lesbian. It wasn’t the only factor in that transformation, but boy was it a major one.”
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S L I C K: Constellations #5 A First Date Picnic With Bennett & Ella
Bennett raised their eyebrows, trying not to blush. They wanted it, they really, really wanted it. They’d made themself a promise because they didn’t want to get involved with someone who wasn’t right. But this was different.
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16 Lesbian Power Couples We Love From the 19th Century to the Present Day
The only thing better than one extraordinarily accomplished queer woman is two of them, in love!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #90: Queer Sex and Desire with Sex Educator Luna Matatas
“So many people struggle with getting out of their head and into their body during sex.”
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15 TV Shows We Loved and Lost and Were Actually Sad About
News breaking last week that queer fan favorites One Day at a Time and Wynonna Earp were facing an uphill battle getting another season made has caused our TV team to: a) wail and gnash our teeth, and b) reflect on some of the shows we’ve actually mourned losing.
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14 Knuckles: Femme Top Revolution
There’s a difference between domination as a way to take control or claim power over another person — the way certain lovers have done with me — versus domination as a way to provide comfort and care, and to grow one’s power without harming anyone else.
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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: December’s Prologue
Like so many others, I’ve been chirping about the end of 2020, as if the transition from one year to the next will somehow magically suture our open wounds.
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30 of the Best Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Animated TV Episodes
I’ve never grown out of my love for cartoons, and it’s a good thing because I firmly believe some of the best LGBTQ+ storytelling to ever grace our teevees has happened in animated series.
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Boobs on Your Tube: ABC Reunites the Nasty Bitches, Crowns Them Queens
Also! Updates on American Horror Story: Double Feature, New Amsterdam, Legacies, Nancy Drew, Home Economics and High Town!
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So You Want To Go To Work
One of the most popular requests I have gotten for this column is “What do I wear to work?” And I get it! You have to get dressed for work, and the kinds of clothes that are typically deemed “workplace appropriate” are absolutely racist, classist, ableist, transphobic, homophobic and sexist. Not to mention, no two workplaces are the same!
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14 Knuckles: Always A Fistee, Never A Fister
My acceptance of my own pain allows me to have the kind of sex that is rooted in the specificity of my body. I don’t love the idea that I’ll never fist, but I do love the idea that every act of sex I engage with is collaborative. Queerness reminds me that there is no standard way to fuck or live.
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S L I C K: The Maid Who Was Elegant
A Countess challenges her newest trans maid to make a sopping wet gamble. “The Countess said she could use whatever means necessary, and Myra had assumed she meant some form of corporal punishment. But the Countess was going to pee on her.”
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Cast Full of Lesbians: 15 TV Shows That Put Queer Women First
“The L Word” was supposed to be the beginning of a new era of teevee shows about the real true lives of lesbian and bisexual women — and although we never quite got there, here are 15 examples of shows that don’t just have queer characters in them, but are also *about* being queer.
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On Netflix’s “Unbelievable” and the Culture of Serial Rapists
Netflix’s Unbelievable covers the true story of Marie Adler. For many women that have taken their rapist(s) to court, the show sheds light on painful truths.
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 94: July 2022
“We were just kissing ON THE MOUTH and you wanna know if we are SISTERS?!”
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“Riverdale” Episode 505 Recap: Toni Topaz, at Last, Is a Main Player
These characters sure do love to self-sabotage!
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S L I C K: Jesus Is; A Love Song Part 2
Finally, Danielle and Joanna are reunited are years of radio silence. Will Joanna’s voice still move Danielle as strongly as she remembers?
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I Was Supposed To Be Good At Math
For a split second, I thought about her racial calculations, not because I felt I needed to know, but because maybe, finally, someone might be like me. I knew our skin colors carried the weight of the same questions.
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I Rewatched “Lip Service” and Now I Feel a Whole Lot Better About the Current State of Lesbian TV
Is this show really only six years old? It feels like a lifetime ago.