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“Appropriate Behavior” Is Fresh, Authentic, Features a Bisexual Persian Character
Breakout writer/director/actor triple threat, Desiree Akhavan, brings us a three dimensional bisexual Persian lead character and also Robin is at a kink cafe and we all wish we were there, too.
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“Regarding Susan Sontag”: A Style Guide for the Young, Queer, and Whipsmart
Nancy Kates’ new documentary, now airing on HBO, is a portrait of the queer woman who made knowledge sexy.
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I Wanna Give Back “The Giver”: Top Ten Feelings About A Truly Godawful Cinematic Experience
I would like to lose the memory of that time I saw “The Giver,” please.
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“The Duke Of Burgundy” Is The Lesbian BDSM Film You’ve Been Waiting For
Bondage, butterflies, and zero men.
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Rhymes With Witches: The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy in “Saved!”
This dichotomy has been analyzed in numerous papers and books, but none do it with as much flair and fun as the teen cult classic, “Saved!”.
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Rhymes with Witches: Drew Barrymore in 90’s Cult Classic, “Poison Ivy”
“For all of her diabolical plans to take over Sylvie’s life, Ivy made any person she was with feel like they were the most important and interesting person in the world. She could make you despise her but could just as easily win you back with a comforting smile and the feeling that she was the only person that could understand you and knew how to make you better.”
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Rhymes with Witches: Dazed and Confused’s Darla Marks Is No Ordinary Queen Bee
“Geared with fruity roll-on lip gloss and knee high socks, Darla works at the helm of the barbaric ritual with such ferocity it’s hard to believe she’s just a teenage girl.”
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Movie Review: Biopic “Reaching For The Moon” Lets Us See Elizabeth Bishop in Love
“Reaching For The Moon” is a biopic about the turbulent relationship between American lesbian poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Yep, it’s just as good as it sounds.
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Rhymes With Witches: Making Frenemies With Pretty Persuasion’s Kimberly Joyce
Come take a walk on the wild side (switchblade not included) to explore the evil anti-heroine from Pretty Persuasion and why I love her.
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“Saving Mr. Banks” Erases P.L. Travers’ Queer Identity, Misses Amazing Opportunity for Representation
In my mind, to fail at LGBT inclusion in fiction is to have a failure of imagination, a lazy lack of understanding concerning the world outside of one’s self. To intentionally choose to tell a story about a real LGBT person and then exclude their queer identity is a failure on an entirely different level.
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Flowers In The Attic Movie Recap: What the F*ck
I need a sanitizing hand wipe for my soul, you guys.
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Chely Wright’s Documentary “Wish Me Away” Will Give You So Many Feelings
Country star Chely Wright told the truth. And it was breathtaking.
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Moonrise Kingdom: The Autostraddle Review
It doesn’t make any sense. That’s because it’s a love story.
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Lisbeth Salander by Any Other Name
A review of the American remake, in which we decide that if you want to test your gaydar, bring up Noomi Rapace vs. Rooney Mara in a bar.
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“Mädchen in Uniform”: Girl-on-Girl Culture Circa 1931
It’s queer film history time! Girls In Uniform was made by lesbians in 1930s Germany. It’s about an all girls Prussian boarding school.
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Occupy Movie Theaters: Breaking Dawn Part One
Lizz joined the Occupy Movie Theaters movement! Just kidding, she caught the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn Part 1.
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Stop (Barbara) Hammer Time: ‘Dyketactics,’ The First Lesbian Experimental Film
Barbara Hammer, the first lesbian filmmaker: how I have a giddy schoolgirl crush on her, one degree of separation from her and how she definitely has it out for Freud.
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“On the Road” Stills Provide Opportunity to Admire Kristen Stewart, Pre-Judge
“I thought Marylou was basically Janis from the Muppets, and I thought Dean Moriarity looked like Frank Zappa. I realize this makes no sense but I was 15 and still figuring stuff out.”
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Eat Pray Love Won’t Teach You How to Be Alone (or, “First Try to See Something, Anything Else”)
We all come across approximately infinite poorly written, ill-researched, patriarchal and offensive things on the internet each day; most of the time, we can let them slide with a shake of the head. Sometimes, though, you can’t. And that’s when you stop being polite and start getting real about youtube, (specifically Tanya Davis’s “How To Be Alone,”) Eat Pray Love, and dbags.
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Twilight Eclipse Totally Eclipsed Team Bella’s Hearts: Movie Review
We saw Twilight: Eclipse, and it made us feel feelings ranging from feminist rage to boredom to JUST THE TIP to Kristen Stewart is Hawt. An Autostraddle mini-Roundtable.