Pop Culture Fix: Jen Richards Joins “Clarice” to Put Buffalo Bill’s “Complicated Legacy” Into Perspective

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+ Clarice casts Jen Richards as trans character who will discuss Buffalo Bill’s “complicated legacy.”

“All I can say is that the character intersects with Clarice’s storyline in a way that her transness isn’t central to her storyline, but her identity as a trans woman prompts her to discuss with Clarice the complicated legacy of Buffalo Bill,” Richards said during a virtual premiere event for “Clarice” on Monday night.

+ The queer Golden Globes 2021 noms.

+ Related: For the first time in the history of the Golden Globe awards, more than one woman has been nominated in the best director category in any one year.

Related: The Golden Globes — what a joke.

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+ Rachel Maddow says she’ll never be the same after her partner’s Covid battle.

+ An American Girl doll got some lesbian aunts and the Million Moms are not happy about it!

+ Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice under Donald Trump.

+ Here’s a two-hour long supercut of every LGBTQ joke made on The Simpsons.

+ Sarah Paulson on her new AHS character.

+ Celebrating SOPHIE’s singular, unapologetically queer legacy.

+ Netflix is turning Tomb Radier into anime.

+ Ryan Coogler is developing a Wakanda series for Disney+.

+ Azie Tesfai has co-written an episode for the final season of Supergirl.

+ And now it’s time for your weekly Javicia Leslie check in.

+ Batwoman has been renewed for season three and so many other CW queer shows!

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Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her wife, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She's a member of the Television Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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6 Comments

  1. Mentioned in that Batwoman renewal article is that Walker also got renewed for a second season already and I am just asking how? It hasn’t even aired it’s third episode yet and going off episode 1 it isn’t that amazing a show, so is it just the cishet white man being the lead, or am I missing something?

    • I think they may be banking on some built-in audience from that cishet white dude’s supernatural fandom plus Lindsey Morgan’s 100 fandom plus Odette Annable’s Supergirl fandom? Not sure how far it’ll carry them, but I genuinely can’t find any other reasoning, aside from the their usual, unquenchable thirst for the young white male demographic.

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