Results for: representation
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The True Accurate History of LGBTQ+ Performers Competing for Lead and Supporting Actress Oscars
There’s a lot of confusing information out there but this here is the real true history of LGBTQ+ nominees for Lead and Supporting Actress Oscars — a field in which queer roles are often rewarded, but out queer people very rarely are.
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Boobs on Your Tube: Station 19’s Two-Part Finale Starts off Hot (In More Ways Than One, Unfortunately)
It’s hard to believe that after seven years, we’ve really made it to the end of Station 19 (or Maya and Carina!). Plus updates on Grey’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, All American, The Chi, and Pretty Little Liars: Summer School!
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Anarchist Author Margaret Killjoy Crafts Trans Worlds in the Woods
Margaret Killjoy is a master world-builder. Her first young adult book, The Sapling Cage, comes out next month.
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Peacock’s New Polyamorous Reality Show “Couple to Throuple” Forgets That Thirds Are People Too
Couple to Throuple wants the couples to find their forever third. But the couples are still trying to decide what they want for themselves.
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“Your Place or Mine” Fails To Explicitly Acknowledge Bit Butch Lesbian Character
As much as I’d love for Tig Notaro to be in all romantic comedies, I don’t want “butch best friend” to become the latest watered down LGBT character trope.
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Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind
I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.
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We Got High and Watched New Indie Queer Christmas Movie “Last Exmas”
This movie has everything: a girl in a beanie who makes pizza pockets for a diner, a meddling friend who wears loud sweaters and makes scissoring gestures, a famous actress from a car commercial getting a key to the city, and so much more
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Sundance 2023: “Joyland” and “Slow” Center Their Cis and Allosexual Characters With Surprising Success
Every story can be told, if it’s told right.
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40 Female Horror Protagonists, Ranked by Lesbianism
The women featured on this list include Final Girls, monsters, and everything in between.
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Also.Also.Also: Lili Reinhart’s Entering Her Queer Period Piece Era, Get Ready For Corsets
Lili Reinhart’s first-Riverdale project will be a queer period movie, Biden is set to forgive up to $10k per person in student loan debt, the history of the women who brew beer, and how early 2000s pop culture changed sex.
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Lesbian and Non-Binary TV Characters Are All The Rage, Relatively
For the first time in the history of the “Where We Are On TV” Report, lesbian characters occupy a bigger slice of the LGBTQ+ TV character pie than gay men.
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Practical Magic: How to Take a Decolonial Approach to Educating
We must build a world in which the model for education is holistic, liberating, and guarantees that each student is valued.
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7 Brilliant Books About Chaotic Queers
When I think about “good” queer representation, I think about bad. I think about bad behavior, bad relationships, bad choices, bad words.
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The AS Insider #108: Our Big Gay 15th Birthday
Sweet birthday baby! Today is Autostraddle’s 15th birthday, and we’re celebrating!!
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Every Character From Grease and Grease 2, Ranked by Lesbianism
In honor of this week’s release of “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” we are ranking every character from Grease and Grease 2 by lesbianism.
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The Comment Awards Are Still Chasing Amy After All These Years
“I am absolutely shocked that the main character’s name is Alyssa…who is Amy???”
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Autostraddle March Madness 2023: Trope-y Wives – Friends to Lovers
The last first round of voting is now open! Choose which gal pals are moving on to the Round of 32!
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You Need Help: How Can I Be My Authentic Self While Navigating Bi-Erasure and Biphobia?
You can’t control other people’s reactions to your coming out. But you can create for yourself a network of people who unequivocally support your bisexuality/queerness and who understand the specific joys and challenges we face.
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Pop Culture Fix: Every Queer Nerd’s Favorite Nerd, Ashly Burch, Is Pansexual!
Cynthia Erivo reconfirms her queerness, another sweet tearjerker from Brandi Carlile, Hayley Kiyoko is making the reality show of her dreams, and more!
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An Autistic Reading of Stranger Things’ Robin Buckley
To have someone so similar to me portrayed as likable and capable in a major show, is thrilling.