Results for: representation
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DC Comics Steps Up Its LGBTQ Representation with Batgirl, Harley and Ivy, Renee Montoya and More!
The Batgirl creative team makes changes to fix their transphobic mistakes, Harley and Ivy are confirmed as a couple, and DC has more queer heroes than ever before!
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Lez Liberty Lit: Being Difficult
Love for Roxane Gay, Joan Didion’s literary descendants, the end of the 2016 book lists, a cheat sheet for your ereader and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Reading For Resilience
Post-election reading recommendations, endless love for Zadie Smith, new Joan Didion, how we talk about women’s lives and more.
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NSFW Sunday Is All About Tinder
How to love or fuck each astrological sign, every idea you ever wanted to hear about Tinder, dueling opinions on queer sex as resistance, homoerotic lingerie ads and more.
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Drawn to Comics: “Kim Reaper” Is The Cute, Queer Comic You Need Right Now
Kim Reaper is a queer bright spot in this demoralizing world. It features cute art, cuter characters, funny jokes and a compelling story about death, college and romance.
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Drawn to Comics: 8 Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Comics Storylines I’m Hoping For in 2017
I’m trying to calm down a little this year and not have too many expectations, I don’t think I can take as much disappointment as I could have in the last two years. But still, I am hoping for a few things.
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Notes from a Queer Engineer: What “Ghostbusters” Gets Right About Women in STEM
With the release of Ghostbusters, I feel like Hollywood is finally reaching the point of fluency when it comes to representations of women in STEM.
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Pop Culture Fix: Kate McKinnon Will Obviously Be Playing A Witch In Her Very First Very Own Movie
Plus also St. Vincent scored Kristen Stewart’s new short film, Tumblr knows your life, Sense8 is getting a Christmas special, Gaby Dunn is on a NYT best of 2016 list, and more queer entertainment news!
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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes Reminds Us that All Hardcore Lady Types Are Welcome
This credo has been hammered home in a recent issue where Barney, who was once a Scouting Lad, joins the Lumberjanes and the book starts clearly using they/them pronouns for them.
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Trump Went Apeshit Anti-Science This Week, Let’s Fight Back
They want to overwhelm us and exhaust us with the chaos. I reject that. Here’s a recap of every anti-science action Trump’s administration made this week and some ways to fight back.
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Lez Liberty Lit #100: One Hundred Bookshelves Full of Queer Lit
Books to read for Pride, searching for representation, cotton candy queer lit, books as taxidermy, books and reading and food and eating, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: What Is Women’s Lit?
Reading bored white girls, queer YA, Power and Magic, what women’s lit is anyway and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Wonder Woman for President
Literary ASMR, exclamation points and emoji, queer retellings as reclamation, Zadie Smith, recordings of Black women poets and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Books On A Bicycle
Emojis aren’t destroying language, reading lists of books by indigenous authors, trans women in literature and more.
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NSFW Sunday Is Ready For This Election To End So We Can Have Sex Again
What makes an orgasm an orgasm, why crushes are fun, why queer porn is into safer sex (but you should still vote no on 60) and more.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants More Piercings In More Places
The rise of nipple piercings, why winking is sexy, lingerie’s “nude” problem, hilarious theories on what causes lesbian sex and more.
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Rebel Girls: How Quota Systems Across the Globe Count Women Into Politics
“Whereas some political systems are centered around equality of opportunity for women in politics — basically, the system we have in the US that (in theory) gives women the chance to run for office and be elected to office just like men, nothing different and nothing more — a growing number of nations and political parties have opted instead to make broader representation of women in their governments an explicit political goal using quota systems.”
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It’s Time to Vote in the 3rd Annual Autostraddle Comic And Sequential Art Awards
Who do you think is making the best queer women’s and feminist comics? Make your voice heard!
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Rebel Girls: 16 Women and Girls Who Shook the World in 2016
Here’s 16 women or groups of women who gave me and you and everyone we know some life in this, the darkest of years.
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Pop Culture Fix: The Great British Bake Off Returns Tonight And That’s All You Need To Know
Plus Cynthia Nixon as bisexual babe Emily Dickinson, Sarah Paulson can’t get enough Ryan Murphy, Alia Shawkat and Aubrey Plaza are Hamilton and Burr, Megan Rapinoe isn’t happy with Hope Solo and much more pop culture news!