Results for: representation
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7 Must-Read Books on Queer History and Identity in the South
The South’s conservative and religious majority has made it nearly impossible to suss out the queers in classic Southern literature and in the history books. That’s why this list exists.
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Top 11 Times This Year Pop Culture Reminded Us Kids Are Queer and Trans Too
As long as queer kids are taking their own lives, as long as young lesbians are told that their crushes on other girls are just fleeting feelings that all straight girls have and as long as trans girls as young as age 6 are treated as sexual deviants who shouldn’t be allowed to use the bathroom, we’re going to need representation in all-ages media.
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Top Five Classic Horror Films with Queer Subtext
“Nothing provides plausible deniability like the supernatural, and so classic Hollywood horror films were practically primed for representations of homoeroticism and heterosexual anxieties about queer life, which was already horrifying to the mainstream.”
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Top 100 Lesbian & Bisexual YouTubers & Couples List: Ranked By Channel Subscribers
With millions of subscribers between them, these lesbian, bisexual and otherwise queer-identified YouTubers are taking over online video content with their channels, one view at a time! Read the list of the top 100 YouTube channels at Autostraddle.com!
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18 Crime Documentaries To Stream and Be Horrified By
18 documentaries about crime and the criminal justice system you can find on Netflix streaming or Amazon and watch while you sit on your couch or chair or bed or wherever it is that you like to sit.
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15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016
Welcome to your list of queer/ feminist books coming out from January to July 2016. Roxane Gay, Gabby Rivera and erotica, anyone?
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Happy International Fisting Day! Celebrate With Five Queer Fisting Scenes
Celebrate International Fisting Day with these scenes from the Crash Pad Series.
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15 Best Trans Woman Movies According to Trans Women
Who better to decide the best movies featuring trans women than the trans women who watch them?
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10 First-Ever Lesbian Characters On American TV: Killers, Tramps, Thieves and Therapists
From lesbian gangs killing old ladies in a nursing home to actresses with Mommy issues to inspirational schoolteachers, these are ten of the first-ever lesbian characters on American primetime television, 1961-1977.
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The Best and Worst LGBT TV Characters of 2015
We’ve finally arrived at a place where we have enough queer characters on TV to fight about them. What a time to be alive!
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Every Queer TV Storyline of 2015, Ranked
The good, the bad, the ugly, and the revolutionarily boring queer TV storylines of the year.
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50 Brilliant LGBTQ Women Behind The Television Camera
From Ali Adler to Nahnatchka Khan to Ilene Chaiken to three different women named “Liz,” you might not recognize their faces, but you’ll definitely recognize their work.
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Drawn to Comics: My 15 Favorite Single Issues from 2015
Hellcat, Lumberjanes, Bitch Planet, Ms. Marvel, Moon Girl and more of my favorite comics from this past year!
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Drawn to Comics: Last Year I Wished for 12 Things in Comics; Here’s What I Got
Let’s see how the year 2015 was for women in comics and what we can hope for in 2016 (I’m mainly hoping for more queer comics).
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5 Data Visualization Projects You’re Gonna Dig
“To fully plumb the depths of my heart requires more than a single bar graph.”
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12 Women They Didn’t Tell You Were Queer In History Class
Really unclear why we didn’t spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her girlfriend.
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215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015 — All Written By Women
This should keep your brain busy for quite some time.
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Nine Ways to Be a Grown-Up LGBTQ Ally to LGBTQ Youth
We’re teaming up with GLSEN for Ally Week! Let’s look at how we can be better allies to LGBTQ youth.
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Every Current Lesbian/Bisexual TV Character, Ranked By U-Hauling Potential
While we await new episodes of our favorite regular season shows, we thought it would be a good time to address the thing you really care about: Which lesbian/bisexual TV characters would be the best to U-Haul with?
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10 Ways Educators Can Make Schools Safer for LGBT Youth
We’re participating in GLSEN’s Ally Week and talking about how K-12 educators can become better allies to the LGBT youth in their schools.