Results for: representation
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Vote Now In Autostraddle’s 4th Annual TV Awards
The time has come to cast your vote for the very best in LGBTQ Television! Because a Television Academy of mostly cis, straight white men don’t speak for us.
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QUIZ: Which Mid-Aughts LGBTQ+ Female Television Character Are You?
Are you into skipping class or casting spells? Your answer will determine your fate in this very important quiz.
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Good Trouble’s Sherry Cola on Queer Asian Love Stories and Making Her Mom Proud
“I literally feel taken aback at the fact that I am telling this story that has never been told, period. I challenge everyone to name one other TV show that portrays love between two Asian women. It does not exist to this level.”
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What Is Up With These Vaguely Lesbian Mean Teens on “White Lotus”?
“Targeting the love interests of your queer crush is a very young and chaotic bisexual move (apologies to the queer crushes of my youth).”
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Boobs on Your Tube: The Chi Wraps Season Four with a Happy, Even If Unsatisfying, Ending
Plus updates on Burden of Truth, The Republic of Sarah, and Motherland: Fort Salem.
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Yes, Chaotic Queers Are Still Watching “The L Word: Generation Q” With Their Exes
“It will probably be sexy and unhealthy for both of us.”
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It’s Time to Talk about It, “Never Have I Ever” Has a Race Problem
Fabiola’s story taps into a real dynamic in queer communities, but “Never Have I Ever” couldn’t bring itself to actually identify the problem for what it truly is: racism.
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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!
We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.
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Kristen Arnett on “With Teeth,” Lesbian Motherhood, and Sagittarius Chaos
“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”
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Lena Waithe on “Master of None” and Making Messy Beautiful Black Lesbian Art
“I wasn’t afraid to make myself the villain. I wasn’t afraid to make Denise not likable at times, because even in doing that, my hope is that you will see yourself.”
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“Four More Shots Please” Season Two Was a Betrayal
Four More Shots Please wants to broach serious issues relating to gender and sexuality but puts in no work to actually address them in any kind of meaningful way and opts for superficial declarations of feminism, instead.
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The Drop: Willow Smith Talks Polyamory with Jada and Gammy at The Red Table
The first thing I thought when I saw this episode was coming out was damn, Willow is about to put herself through some emotional labor trying to explain this aspect of her life — and my goodness do I hope it’s worth it.
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Anti-Capitalism Won’t Save Us If We Can’t Confront White Supremacy, Transphobia and Colonialism
Endless conversations on dialectical materialism, class wars, and late-stage capitalism do little to address the current realities that plague visibly non-white people, trans people, and sex workers. The violent realities of capitalism have real, tangible consequences for people most affected by white supremacist violence and the constant refrain of “do the reading” does nothing to address them.
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Oscars 2021: Two Queers Discuss The Very Pandemic 93rd Academy Awards
Drew and Riese discuss this years slate of Oscar films, except FYI Drew did NOT watch “Mank,” and Riese did watch “Mank,” and it wasn’t fun, so!
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Boobs on Your Tube: Can We Call 9-1-1 to Heal Hen’s Heartbreak?
Plus updates on Younger, All American, Ackley Bridge, Top Chef and Charmed.
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Joss Whedon and JK Rowling Don’t Own My Queer Narratives
Whedon and Rowling don’t get to lay claim to the stories we wrote, whether they were in fan fiction, on forums, or even just in our own, quiet thoughts. We own the narratives that give us meaning.
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 606: Lactose Intolerant with John Bellamy!
John: Could you imagine you and Dylan just got done cunnaling-ing together, you’re in bed, the California sun is basking on you. And then you turn to Dylan and you’re like, “We have to get up so we can go to Max’s Willy Wonka baby shower.” That’s the thing you interrupt with.
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“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1313 Recap: Putting the Gott In EGOT
Gottmik wants to show that trans people don’t have to be Barbie and Ken. Or, maybe, in her case, that trans men can be Barbie too.
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Meet Lauren Patten and Sonya Tayeh, the Queer Artists Ushering a Brighter Future for Broadway
Every once in the rarest while, an artist shows up on Broadway in possession of such exceptional talent — audiences start thinking about their future not in years but decades. Jagged Little Pill’s Lauren Patten and Moulin Rouge! The Musical’s Sonya Tayeh are such talents currently in the running for their first Tonys.
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Ginny & Georgia’s Lesbian Gets a Refreshingly Typical Teen Dating Story
Ginny & Georgia has a very typical teenage dating story but made it queer, just for us.