Results for: queer parenting
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“Brown Girls” Shows Women of Color Coming of Age in a Way We Never Get to See on TV
Hollywood’s reluctance to tell the stories of brown girls has always been rooted in — well, racism; but more precisely— the myth that white stories are neutral and, as such, are more relatable to the broader audience. Brown Girls disproves that myth, creating an imminently relatable coming-of-age story.
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“Danger & Eggs” Is The Greatest Weirdest Queer-and-Trans Inclusive Kids Show Ever
Co-creator, Shadi Petosky is a trans woman and the cast is absolutely packed with queer and trans voice actors like Stephanie Beatriz, Jasika Nicole, Angelica Ross, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, Tyler Ford, Jazz Jennings, Laura Zak and Petosky herself.
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“Star” Is Back Tonight for Season Two; Here’s Why You Should Watch
Star knows that some women have to make impossible choices, that they hustle to survive. I don’t remember the last time I saw a show on network television that embraced this brand of dark, unrelenting Girl Power.
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“American Horror Story: Cult” Is a Premature Baby Screaming in the Arms of Its Lesbian Moms
Thus, much like actual life, Trump’s presence in the show casts a dark shadow over an otherwise viable existence AND ALSO OVER LESBIANS.
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Transparent Season Four Finds Its Heart by Keeping It in the Family
Transparent isn’t a show about any single person. It’s a show about family. That’s what it’s always been and when it focuses on that, it’s at its absolute best.
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Master Of None’s Coming Out Episode Is One of the Realest Things You’ve Ever Seen on TV
The character-driven Thanksgiving is set almost entirely in a single location, and unlike most small-screen coming out stories, this one spans 22 years because Denise’s journey is a marathon; not a sprint.
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“Queen Sugar” Is a Black Feminist Masterclass That’s Coming Back to Your TV TONIGHT
“It is, and I say this without any hyperbole or doubt, the closest I have EVER come on television to seeing a love that looks mine and looks like how I express it. Ever. Ever. EVER.”
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Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” Is the Revolutionary, Feminist Latinx Family Sitcom We Didn’t Know We Needed
One Day at a Time is so revolutionary in its depictions of what a family might actually look like in America. It’s got the same recipe of an old school family sitcom but turns the norm on its head because it centers the family’s brownness and provides ample social commentary to deliver a fantastic modern-day sitcom.
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Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale Is Queerer Than It Ever Was and Closer Than I Knew
Every time I return to it, The Handmaid’s Tale offers me something new. In the Hulu series, the “new thing” is “more lesbians.”
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Indian Web Series “The Other Love Story” Gives Queer Women A Happy Ending
“The Other Love Story was such a breath of fresh air in many ways. Aadya and Aachal felt like any other regular person: they were not coded Butch or Femme, like too many of these stories tend to do, and neither were overly Westernized nor overly exotified. They just were.”
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“Masters Of Sex” Kills A Lesbian Character, Can Somebody Pass The Potatoes
“I don’t know why I thought this might end well.”
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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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“New Girl” Joins The Exciting Trend of Meaningful Sexual Fluidity On TV
New Girl, How to Get Away With Murder, and The 100 have all brought more depth and nuance to queerness than the majority of Lesbian Kiss Episodes have ever achieved.
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True Life: I’m Genderqueer and I Watched MTV’s “True Life: I’m Genderqueer”
“My heart did a flip because I remember the sudden shift where my body went from stranger to home, and now I was watching this shift happen to someone else. And maybe this is why these shows exist: because someone else is going to want that feeling, they’re going to recognize themselves.”
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“Jessica Jones” Is An Awesomely, Aggressively Feminist Superhero Series
Jessica Jones is not a perfect television show, but it is a perfect punch in the face to the reasons the art of superhero storytelling has mutated into one of the most sexist industries in America.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Hey, It’s Another Queer Woman of Color on Summer TV!
The new TBS comedy, Clipped, features a queer woman of color playing a queer woman of color!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: 16 Summer TV Shows You Can Count On For Queer Characters
16 shows, 26 confirmed queer characters. Plus, a downloadble PDF calendar with premiere dates!
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“Fresh Off the Boat” Balances Stereotype and Authenticity in a Very Gay Episode
“I laughed a LOT, and it didn’t make me feel weird or mean-spirited afterwards.”
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Dead Lesbians and Bisexual Psychos Dominate May Sweeps
Supernatural kills Charlie, Gotham tropes Barbara, Arrow marries Nyssa off to a man. But on the upside, Samira Wiley crushed it on Law & Order: SVU and Raven was amazing on Black-ish.
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Pretty Little Liars Episode 601 Recap: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Alas, the Liars escape from the dollhouse without having a lesbian orgy.