Slow Takes: “Pen15” and Embracing Alternate Girlhoods
Watching the first season during what I considered my second puberty was miserable. I could acknowledge its effectiveness, but I felt alienated.
Watching the first season during what I considered my second puberty was miserable. I could acknowledge its effectiveness, but I felt alienated.
We’ve got The L Word: Generation Q, new seasons of The Sex Lives of College Girls and Dead To Me and Elite, a very gay brunch-focused cooking competition, Cara Delevingne’s sexual journey and more!
“Season Three of Love is Blind is, somehow, remarkably heterosexual, despite its premise retaining deep roots in lesbian cultural practices.”
Plus updates on 9-1-1, The Rookie: Feds, Queen Sugar, All American, Station 19 and Survivor!
This week’s episode had me screeching and gasping like a sexy baby who’s never seen a TV show in her entire life.
But sometimes it shows its work on only the most basic level.
One dark and stormy night, like so many queer people before me, I eagerly introduced a friend to the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Plus updates on our lesbian Survivor contestant, Vampire Academy, 9-1-1, Raising Kanan, American Horror Story, NCIS: Hawai’i, and The Equalizer.
And she looks…familiar.
These 45 minutes were gayer than every other LGBTQ Disney and Marvel thing in history, combined.
Plus! Updates on Survivor, 9-1-1, All American, Vampire Academy, Home Economics, and Station 19!
High School is eminently watchable, no matter how little or how much you know about actual Tegan and Sara. It’s just a damn good teen drama.
Rachel Maddow and Melissa Etheridge were on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” and he made the lesbian icons with much better things to do, rank our silly little pop culture internet lives. It’s great.
“I. Do NOT. Want. Angie’s Hoe Phase.”
“We’re still trying to make art that surprises people and this feels scary, so I think that that probably means we’re on the right track.”
“I think the greatest compliment that we’ve gotten was somebody in the audience at TIFF saying how happy they were to see a show that wasn’t cynical at all.”
“I doubt that Santana was written from the jump with the intention to make her a lesbian, but sometimes that’s what a coming out journey feels like — like you’re in a show and the writers chose a new direction for your character mid-way through Season Two. You can still look back and find a way to make it all fit together, though. Stories and lives are fluid like that.”
“I hope that as people become more familiar with the episodes that I personally write, they’ll notice sort of this undercurrent of community care.”
Trans actor Ceci Balagot plays nonbinary monster Frankie Stein in Nickelodeon’s new silly-adorable live-action musical-fantasy.
Plus updates on Raising Kanan and Station 19!