Results for: queer parenting
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Remembering Chyna, a Polarizing Powerhouse
On WWE superstar Chyna, her impact on young girls who grew up watching her, and what the media fails to note about her legacy in light of her recent passing.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: The Walking Dead’s Denise Cloyd Is Dead Lesbian #147
Another day, another stray arrow in the eyeball. Plus: Hannah has her first queer hook-up on Girls.
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Girl, It’s Your Time: Trans Artist Vivek Shraya On Finding Freedom and Wholeness
“Gender self-determination is vital and I can feel great about who I am when I am at home. But I live a life where I engage with other people and doing what feels good for me is a lot more challenging when I step outside the door. With pronouns specifically, it’s hard not to feel like you are dependent on others to ‘validate’ your gender, or rather, it’s hard not to feel like your gender is not valid when people use the wrong pronoun.”
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I Watched Lesbian Classic “Better Than Chocolate” for the First Time and Now I’m a Broken Person
One lesbian movie to rule them all.
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The Seven Most Influential Queer Girl TV Shows Of The Last Seven Years
In honor of our seventh birthday, a look back on the seven television shows with the biggest impact on the representation of LGBTQ women over the last seven years.
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“Don’t Date Anyone Who Treats You Like Shit”: An Interview with Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
This was supposed to be a book review of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha’s new memoir “Dirty River.” But it’s actually the story of how reading my friend and queer aunty Leah’s brown femme poetry saved me, made me a writer, and totally revolutionized my love and sex life.
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #6
“I can’t tell you how ready I am for this roundtable. I mean, in the sense that I live it daily.”
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Pop Culture Fix: Mattel Isn’t Selling Abby Wambach Barbies and Lily-Rose Depp Isn’t Gay
Topics include Lily-Rose Depp, Barbie being full of lies, hipster homophobia, Beyoncé, Zoolander 2, relationships and Netflix, BriaAndChrissy, Professor Sprout and more!
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Ooo Baby Baby (Ahh Push It)
I’m knocked up! I loved Zootopia! I bought a waffle maker! What’s good with you? Come on in here and tell me about it!
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If I’m Queer But I’m A Preacher, Maybe He’ll Love Me
“My father has very few admirable qualities when it comes to our relationship: he doesn’t follow through on his promises, he doesn’t compromise, and he has a God complex. “
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Say My Name, Mey’s My Name Pt. II: Independent (Legally a) Woman
“As I write about my name now, I feel strength, and contentment and comfort and home. I feel more like myself than I ever have before.”
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How Breaking Bread with Queer Christians Helped Me Rediscover Radical Love
“I put “they/she” on a pronoun button for the first time and countless people — moms, older gay and lesbian folks, and my peers — asked me to share what that meant and what genderqueer identity is because they genuinely wanted to understand ideas that were foreign and difficult for them so they could love me better.”
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Lesbian and Bisexual Teens Sure Did Have A Lot Of Sex, Study Shows
A new study suggests sexually active lesbian teens have more partners and lost their virginities earlier than heterosexuals and that one in five lesbian’s most recent sex partner was a man.
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10 Imaginary Lesbian Christmas Films to Grow Your Holigay Heart Three Sizes
“Janeane Garafalo stars as Helen, who considers herself a witch first and lesbian second.”
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 18, December 2015, With Extra Holiday Cheer
“I DID get hit on by a man at a lesbian bar on Saturday night. It made me feel very free and also like a pastry.”
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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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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Scissoring Foreshadowing on “Jane the Virgin,” Actual Scissoring on “The 100”
Teevee has come home to our loving arms once more, to gift us with post-apocalyptic women kissing each other (and I mean really kissing each other), and resurrected time traveling queer superheroes learning their way, and Jane the Virgin introducing a scissoring painting into the sapphic romance mix.
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Also.Also.Also: Wizarding Schools, Chin Talk and Other Stories to Start Your Week
Lots of Harry Potter stuff happening right now, emotional complexity, late people, rich kids and veggies, reparations, being a teenage girl, “diversity,” and honestly more amazing stuff than you can shake a stick at, so get in here.
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Also.Also.Also: Weed for Cramps, Urban Trees and Other Stories to Start Your Weekend
Texts from Titanosaur, mushroom death suits, fashionable femmes of color, spruce up your Resting Bitch Face, I’m shipping these Barbies, Ellen Page, ya cramps, trans athletes in the Olympics and so very much more!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: UnREAL’s “The Faith Diaries” Will Make Your Gay Heart Sing
Unreal’s web-exclsuive series is delightfully gay. Empire is still Empire. And Penny just will not go away on Grey’s.