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“The Bold Type” Is Our Favorite Feel-Good Summer TV
It’s not perfect, and last week’s episode on Kat’s identity really missed the mark, but there’s a lot to love about this queer, feminist show.
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Facebook’s “Strangers” Is Back and Better (Gayer) Than Ever
Isobel and Cam have made their move to New York City, and while Cam is Shane-ing her way around Brooklyn, Isobel feels more lost than ever.
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“Pose” Is Full of Trans Joy, Resistance, and Love
Pose is one of the most joyful shows on television right now, full of tenderness and heart. And it stars trans women of color! What more could you want?
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“Queen Sugar” Ends Another Season of Not Remembering Nova Bordelon’s Bisexuality
Last night Queen Sugar concluded its third season. To mark the occasion, we got together to hash out what the hell is going on with Nova Bordelon and the realities of bi/pan erasure for black women characters on television.
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“Take My Wife” Season Two Is Everything And Everyone You Love
“Take My Wife” Season 2 is now available on iTunes and surprise, we loved it!
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“GLOW” Season 2 Doubles the Lesbians, Doubles the Fun
“Internalized homophobia is a bitch, you know?”
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Petra Solano’s Bisexuality Is a Love Letter to “Jane the Virgin” Fans
Jane the Virgin saw the audience reading Petra as queer and gave her a female love interest. Simple as that.
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What Is Your Damage, New “Heathers” TV Show?
The “Heathers” reboot pilot dropped yesterday and Heather and Riese are here to tell you why it shattered their queer dreams into a million tiny terrible pieces.
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“Scandal” Changed the Entire TV Landscape, Especially for Black Women
I think that it’s a good time to remember that before Kerry Washington’s role in Scandal there hadn’t been a black woman lead in a network television show in nearly four decades. But in the seven years since Scandal aired, there’s been a proliferation.
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TV Team Roundtable: Just Some “Jane the Virgin” Petramos True Believers Over Here
“Nothing the show will throw at me will ever doubt my faith in the foundation of their love. NOTHING!! So don’t even try it, Jane the Virgin. This is an official warning.”
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Everything Sucks! Is a Bangin’ TV Show With a Sweet Lesbian Lead
Heather and Riese talk about how much we loved the new ’90s-set teen Netflix comedy “Everything Sucks!” and why you’ll love it too and also we made you a playlist.
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We Relived the Black, Feminist Magic of “Living Single” and You Can Too
Unlike so many other sitcoms from the ’90s, this one really holds up.
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Spike Lee’s Queer-ish Remake of “She’s Gotta Have It” Would Have Been Better Without Spike Lee
Autostraddle Staff Writers Carmen and Alaina in a conversation about the TV series, the legacy of Spike Lee’s work, black female representation on film, polyamory, and pansexuality.
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“One Mississippi” Season Two Is a Delightfully Dark Masterpiece, Also Must-See Lesbian TV
It’s whimsical and fresh and progressive and tender in parts and hopeful in other parts and compelling throughout.
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Tessa and Mariah Are Breaking Ground and Mending Hearts on “The Young and The Restless”
It is not a small thing for Y&R to cast Mariah’s love for Tessa in the same mold as one of the show’s great supercouples, Nick and Sharon. It’s a normalizing force for a conservative audience that might not view a same-sex story that way.
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“Queen Sugar” Does Black Lives Matter Storytelling Right
Unlike Orange Is the New Black, Queen Sugar’s approach to Black Lives Matter storytelling works because it doesn’t resort to excessive violence or torture porn to make its point.
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Queen Sugar’s Second Season Gives Black Women The Freedom To Not Be Superwomen
“I am struck that in its second season Queen Sugar has broken open the myth, often accepted as truth, that black women must endure all of their community’s burdens.”
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“San Junipero” Is A Beautiful, Haunting Queer Love Story With Mixed Messages About Disability
Black Mirror found a loophole through the Bury Your Gays conundrum but skirted near one of the most frustrating disability tropes in the process.
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Laverne Cox’s “Doubt” Love Story Imagines a Better World for Trans Women
CBS already canceled Doubt, but the full first season is airing this summer and it’s breaking major ground for trans representation.
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Nia Long’s Lesbian Character in “Dear White People” Sure Was Underwhelming
Chapter III of “Dear White People” gives us Nia Long as Neika Hobbs in my dream job as an African-American studies professor and a beautiful self-proclaimed lesbian… but her storyline, and really the show in general, didn’t quite land for me.