Results for: representation
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The UK’s Reality Dating Shows, Ranked by Queerness
Yes, we’ll be talking about “Love Island”.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Claws” and “Dark Matter” Didn’t Quite Live Up to Their Queer Potential This Summer
“These stupid white dudes fighting (with Whitney Houston playing in the background!!) while this black woman waits for them to tire themselves out so she can fix their problems. As ridiculous as it is, it’s my absolute favorite scene of the entire first season…and a fitting metaphor for the moment our country is in.”
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Sunday Funday Is Speculating About Cynthia Nixon’s Run for Governor
Bisexual flowers pollinated by newly revived bees, hot older ladies on television, really cool stuff in the UK, and Rojo Caliente tugging at our heartstrings! It’s Sunday Funday!!
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“One Mississippi” Season Two Is a Delightfully Dark Masterpiece, Also Must-See Lesbian TV
It’s whimsical and fresh and progressive and tender in parts and hopeful in other parts and compelling throughout.
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You Need Help: How to Navigate Disabled Kids Coming Out
“That she talked to you about this at all is a beautiful and important thing that a lot of young people don’t have. So know that just being there for her is already making an enormous difference!”
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Drawn to Comics: Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Finally Have Their First In-Canon, Main-Universe Kiss!
We’ve got not one, not two, but three images of Harley and Ivy kissing in this article!
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Trans Women in Malaysia Need Support and Accountability in the Face of Increasing Violence
A recent spike in violence against trans women in Malaysia has left activists and the trans community fearful, but also determined in their calls for the Malaysian Government and society to be held accountable.
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Monday Roundtable: Are We Your (Enneagram) Type?
A few months ago, some of us took the Enneagram test and felt extremely uncomfortable with the truths it revealed about us. As fun as that was, we thought it would be even more fun to make even more Autostraddle staff do it and also share their results with a large audience. Let’s see if we were right!
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Autostraddle Bi+ Week Roundtable: Choosing Visibility
How do we want to be seen in our daily lives? How much control do we really have over it? How do we make ourselves visible in a world that often chooses not to see us clearly, and what risks and complications come with it? There’s no one answer, which is why we had all these Autostraddle staffers who identify somewhere under the bisexual umbrella talk about it for you!
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These Were Our Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Shows This Summer
Has anyone heard of that show The Bold Type?
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Things I Read That I Love #244: How We Want To Taste, How We Wish To Be Known.
Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves and more.
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No World For Us: Broken Girls and Embodied Trauma in Porpentine’s “Psycho Nymph Exile”
Psycho Nymph Exile is a cartography of brokenness, an answer to the question that no one wants to ask: What happens after exile? What happens to the girls who become trash?
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Punk, Ghosts, and “Coady and the Creepies”
They’re here, at least one of them’s queer, and surprise: she’s not the one who dies! “Coady and the Creepies” rocks queer and disability representation, punk history and more.
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Why I Got Off the Pacific Crest Trail After 454 Miles Instead of Walking All the Way to Canada
I stopped hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017 because of toxic masculinity and bro culture in the hiking community. It exists, it’s shitty, and it fucked me up.
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20 Titles of Gay Papers I Want to Write One Day
“Three Kids, Two Femmes, a Butch and a Cat: Visions of Queer Domesticity”
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Grey’s Anatomy’s 30 Gayest Moments To Celebrate Its 300th Episode
Happy Birthday, Grey’s Anatomy. (And before you ask, yes, I managed to fit in Callie and Arizona’s brief shower sex scene from season six. )
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“American Horror Story: Cult” Is a Premature Baby Screaming in the Arms of Its Lesbian Moms
Thus, much like actual life, Trump’s presence in the show casts a dark shadow over an otherwise viable existence AND ALSO OVER LESBIANS.
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Exclusive: Slothrust Premiere Sweet New Video For “Pigpen”
Visually, it exists somewhere between a late-90s Smashing Pumpkins video and the Great British Bake-Off on hallucinogens.
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Add Queer & Trans Developers to One 52-Hour Train Ride, Get Rad Inclusive Games
Whether through choices in game design or getting to know other queer attendees, many of us found Train Jam to be an amazing opportunity to express our identities, learn new skills, and build valuable community.
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NSFW Sunday Doesn’t Believe In Sleepovers
Finding love as a young trans woman, platonic sleepovers, your sex life and your work life, Estelle X on the future of queer representation and more.