The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 57, May 2019
“can we call lesbian visibility day lesbian brigadoon”
Queer Your Ears May 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I feel like we have some deeper, more interesting, more contemplative stuff here at Queer Your Ears this month.
“Killing Eve” Is Going to Keep Murdering Us
The season two finale came the closest the show ever has to giving us what we want. But what do we want?
The Perfect Queer Poem: For Defining Your Boundaries
The line breaks are hard to take. They make the poem feel like a fight: not knowing when to stop, talking over one another, losing your thread, gasping for air through tears.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 108: L’Ennui
Y’all, Jenny is about to take her tights off and we are so here for it!
Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Lizzo’s Hallelujah Moments
We’re settling into Gemini season with gay rodeos, news about the Aladdin remake, trans commercials to make you weepy, Pride collabs, gay rodeos, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Practicing French Kissing
A French kissing refresher, censored queer sex ed, ballon fetishes, masturbating without using your hands and more.
Femme Brûlée: Rainbow Sugar Cookies
How about a sugar cookie-filled Pride?
Baopu #60: The Act of Remembering
How fluid is our memory?
Boobs On Your Tube: Gentleman Jack’s Misandry Remains Transcendent
Plus: JR and Petra try co-parenting on Jane the Virgin, Lena Waithe smooches Halley Berry on the mouth on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Kat’s new love gets complicated on The Bold Type.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Spring Has Sprung And I Cut All My Jeans Into Jorts, What About You?
Spring is the best time for fashion in my opinion! A time for light jackets, layering, body hair, cut offs, sunburnt tattoos, backpacks full of beer, all the good stuff! What are you wearing these days?
The Comment Awards Are Sending Will You Marry Me? Y/N Fruit Baskets
“IDK why the basket of fruit sent me over the edge, like, queer women have really been gay disasters since the dawn of time.”
How to Pay Attention
I take photos because they are true, whether they are true or not.
Things I Read That I Love #290: Where Commercials For Gardasil Can Appear To Be the Most Realistic Depiction of Women on Television
Topics include Chernobyl, Sassy, Soviet food, Paul Newman salad dressing, growing up in a cult, Tony Robbins, L.A. on film and so much more!
“Lucifer” Season Four Has a (Tragically) Beautiful Bisexual Storyline
As someone who has fallen for oblivious girls, or helped girls I was crushing on find the perfect thing to say to the boy of their dreams, I found it all surprisingly grounded in reality considering it was about a demon from hell and the literal first woman on Earth.
The L Word’s Lisa The Lesbian-Identified Man: A Trans Symposium
“What do we in want from and for Lisa in 2019? Justice for him, or peace of mind for us? The desire to reach back in time and pull him into our present is natural because we – especially trans people – want to see her character restored in dignity, thus preserving our own dignity.”
GLAAD: Movies Are Getting Better For Lesbian and Gay Characters, Staying Terrible for Trans and LGBTQ Kids’ Characters
GLAAD’s 2019 Studio Responsibility Index is here. Good news: Gay and lesbian rep is up. Bad news: Racial diversity is down, and trans rep remains at zero.
Charmed’s Finale Betrays Its Magically Queer First Season
Charmed decided to get “serious” about its magic, and along the way it forgot everything that made the season campy fun, addictive, feminist, silly and yes – the greatness of centering queer women of color in the middle of all.
Lez Liberty Lit: Detective Work
Queer language before we had queer language, a new generation of villainous women, why money doesn’t save artists, the best bad women in fiction, tons of translated titles and more.
Meet the Great Old Broads Saving the Wilderness and Having Fun Doing It
Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands.