Results for: representation
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NSFW Sunday Is Taking Nudes With A Feminist Lens
Safer sexting from a feminist perspective, everything about your ex, brains on BDSM, whether you need to wash your hands before fingering someone and more.
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This Queer Fat Femme Is Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and You Can Follow Along
Vanessa is thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail this summer and she’s taking us with her! Follow along as she walks 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada.
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PHOTOESSAY: The Dinah, As Told By Dancers
Honestly this year was the wildest I’ve ever seen it. Maybe it’s the political climate but everyone turned out for a good time.
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Aesthetic Rising: Your Astrological Fashion Forecast Featuring Pisces
Here’s the thing: you’re an actual star walking on this earth. And you’re very, very good with clothes.
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Blizzard Gives Us the Gayest Gift Of All: A Girlfriend For Overwatch’s Tracer
Sorry guys, but your fav is gay. There’s no version of the Overwatch universe where she’s gonna fall for you. You can stop hoping that she’ll notice you. She has a girlfriend, she likes the ladies.
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By the Light of “Moonlight”: How I Saw Myself in Male Intimacy
“What ultimately makes Moonlight such a heartbreaking film to me is that despite these reflections and ways I am ever-present to myself, I’m not actually in the film. And yet, here is my masculinity – both what I am and what I strive to be – showcased in the most honest ways.”
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Time to Be Floored by Shea Diamond’s Stunning New Video for Trans and Self-Empowerment Anthem “I Am Her”
I’m beyond honored and blessed to premiere the new live version of “I Am Her,” Diamond’s powerful anthem stripped down into an a capella performance.
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“Wynonna Earp” Episode 210 Recap: Haught Damn
There are now four queer women on this show and none of them are dead!
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“Beauty and the Beast”: Disney’s Long, Slow Evolution From Gay-Coded Villains to Live-Action LeFou
Disney’s been doing their dance to just enough for over 50 years.
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Dapper Crip: Queercrip Encounters with Fashion and Community
“Embracing accessibility begins with representation.” Here, Kay Ulanday Barrett, QueenTite and Jax Jacki Brown explore queer communities, accessibility, and who is deemed fashion-able.
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Our Lives By the Numbers: How Data Is Used to Track LGBT Social Progress
In the past week, two standout reports have been released: Unerased by Mic, and the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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Pop Culture Fix: Ellen Suspects Donald Trump Didn’t Grasp the Heart of “Finding Dory” and Other Pop Culture Stories
Topics include Beyonce having twins (idk if you heard), Ellen’s excellent summary of “Finding Dory,” the GLAAD awards, Ruby Rose’s sex life, Steven Universe’s artistic resistance, Lea Delaria’s pussy diet, the future of queer cinema and so much more!
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Pop Culture Fix: Ruth Negga and Natalie Portman Almost Make Out On The Cover Of “W” For Some Reason
Also Ruby Tandoh’s book is out in the U.S., Ben Affleck’s first short film had a HILARIOUS name/premise, everybody’s getting in on Stef’s Kristen Stewart beat and more!
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“Wynonna Earp” Episode 212 Recap: Where the Wild Things Aren’t
Well and that was a damn near perfect season of television.
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In “Body Horror,” Anne Elizabeth Moore Examines How Consumer Feminism Is Failing Us — and Is Itself Failing
“So, are menstrual bags good, or are they bad? Do they empower women, or further constrict them? It becomes obvious that this is not a zero-sum game, and Moore illuminates the coexistence of multiple conflicting truths.”
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Indian Web Series “The Other Love Story” Gives Queer Women A Happy Ending
“The Other Love Story was such a breath of fresh air in many ways. Aadya and Aachal felt like any other regular person: they were not coded Butch or Femme, like too many of these stories tend to do, and neither were overly Westernized nor overly exotified. They just were.”
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Lez Liberty Lit: Being Difficult
Love for Roxane Gay, Joan Didion’s literary descendants, the end of the 2016 book lists, a cheat sheet for your ereader and more.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Chasing Life” Is the Bisexual Representation You’ve Been Looking For On TV
Alana gets one step closer to getting murdered on Hannibal, Stef and Lena are finally okay on The Fosters, Caitlyn deals with the family fall out of her Vanity Fair interview on I Am Cait, and more queer TV you may have missed!
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Pop Culture Fix: Subversive Lesbian Handmaids, Award-Nominated Lesbian Handmaidens and Other Maiden Stories
The OA’s “gentle queer narrative,” a new Kitty Genovese project, Indiewire’s Sundance picks include Annie Clark’s horror flick, Marti Noxon’s anorexia narrative, Dee Rees’s post-WWII Southern period drama and Dianna Agron in a convent and SO MANY MORE POP CULTURE STORIES FOR YOU TODAY.
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“I Want to Be Visible”: A Queer #DisabledAndCute Photo Gallery
When I saw the hashtag #DisabledAndCute gaining steam on Twitter last weekend, I felt an immediate tug of recognition. Disabled folks were here, owning our bodies and looks rather than trying to cover up, slink away, or downplay.