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Desiree Akhavan on Sex Scenes, Spectatorship, and Shooting ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’: The Autostraddle Interview
Behind every great indie film is a great woman. Or, as “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” shows, an entourage of them. Autostraddle spoke with director Desiree Akhavan about making the film that won the Sundance 2018 Grand Jury Prize for Drama and got gay teens in Montana on screen.
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Interview With Two Queer Engineers: Katie and Kelly Votolato
“We got asked if we were sisters-in-law. Like we had brothers or something –”
“Like, no, we’re married to each other.”
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Ani DiFranco Has a Song From 20 Years Ago That Works For This Moment
With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.
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Let “New Black Swing” Hypnotize You with Smooth Summer Vibes
“Vibes. It’s all about the energy I share, the energy we share with one another. Whether in public or in private, in romance or otherwise. I think about the deepest times in my life and how I dealt with them through music with a bounce, catchy melodies and poetic sentiments.”
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Queer Crip Love Fest: More Seen Than I’ve Ever Felt
An A-Camp love story to help ease your comedown!
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Noelle Stevenson & Amy T. Falcone Are Queering Up D&D With Their Kickass Butch Characters
“Some people don’t like how many queer characters or NPCs are in our campaign, or when either of the women on the show talk too much. Anyone feminine in our society is still expected to be quiet, subservient, and apologetic. Of course I’m not going to make myself or my character more palatable for anyone else’ sake.”
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In Conversation With Sarah Schulman: “They’re Being Taught That Control Is Freedom”
“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”
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Here’s How Queer and Trans People of Color Are Resisting Gentrification and Displacement
Lots of people are talking about gentrification, but who’s actually doing something about it? Queer and trans people of color, of course. In Oakland and Seattle, QTPOC are creating visionary solutions to combat gentrification and reclaim land for communities of color.
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10 Stupid Questions With 10 Hilarious Queer Women, Part 1
These comedians’ answers will surprise you, and you definitely can’t find any of this stuff on Google.
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Protect Our Community By Supporting The Trans Relief Project Today
The Trans Relief Project is an organization working to help as many trans and gender nonconforming people as possible get updated U.S. identification – passports specifically – before the regulations surrounding those rules potentially change.
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Carmilla’s Natasha Negovanlis And Elise Bauman Are Making The Queer Art They Want To See In The World: The Autostraddle Interview
“I think just listening to people’s experiences has made me so much more aware. Queer representation was always something that was important to me, but I don’t think I was as educated or knowledgeable on just how important it is until I really took the time to listen to our viewers.”
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Monstering Magazine Turns Our Pain as Disabled Women and Nonbinary People Into Power
Monstering is the first ever magazine for disabled women and nonbinary people — and if that’s you, they want to see your work!
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Meet One Day at a Time’s Lesbian Writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo
We talked to One Day at a Time writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo, about gay representation on TV, how Autostraddle came to be in the script, their queer TV roots, what kind of LGBT stories are missing from TV and what’s in store for Elena in a potential next season.
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Gaby Dunn And Allison Raskin Hate Everyone But You
Check out this rad new queer YA book by your fave YouTube odd couple, Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin!
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Southwest of Salem: How Four Wrongfully Convicted Latina Lesbians Survived A Witch-Hunt
Southwest of Salem tells the story of four Latina lesbians who were found guilty of a crime they didn’t commit and how the legal and criminal justice systems failed them as queer women of color. Watch it tonight on Investigation Discovery at 8 pm EST.
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Sins Invalid’s “Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom” Features Crip Art, Activism, Love & Liberation
“We deserve to have art that is by us and for us and is us being complicated and depicting all our lives as they are, without simplifying or reassuring.”
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Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
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Rebel Girls: Talking to Sarah McBride about Politics, Trans Rights, and Hillary Clinton
“It really was an honor to be able to stand on that stage and, hopefully, help educate the country a little bit more about transgender equality. More than anything else, I wanted to reinforce the simple fact that transgender people are people, who hurt when they are mocked, who hurt when they are discriminated against, and who want to be treated with dignity and fairness.”
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Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: Talking to Ohio’s Queer Ghost Hunters About LGBT Hauntings and History
The all-LGBT ghost hunting team of Ohio tells us about their real-life ghost experiences, fighting heteronormativity in the afterlife, and what it’s like to talk to LGBT history with dowsing rods.
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Fool’s Journey: What Makes a ‘Feminist’ Tarot?
“Feminism is about unlocking the bonds of separation. Seeing everyone as equals and raising up those who have been most oppressed by patriarchy. Tarot and oracle decks support this work because they give us a tool to connect to our atomic memory. A memory that knows the equality of all beings.”