Results for: representation
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The Comment Awards are Cheering for You in this Brand New Year
“Gay cheerleader of the cosmos, guess I found my desired position for future job applications.”
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Winter 2019 TV Preview: All The Lesbian, Queer and Bisexual TV Coming Your Way
All the premiere dates and sneak peeks at new and returning television shows with lesbian, bisexual or queer women characters coming January, February and March 2019 to a shiny box near you.
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28 LGBTQ Women Who Came Out Or Otherwise Revealed Themselves To Us in 2018
Your annual report on how much closer we are to finding out that everyone is gay!
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Not In Our Name: A Statement on Trans Inclusion From Lesbian Editors and Publishers
We have joined with the editors and publishers of Diva, Curve, Lesbians on the Loose, Tagg Magazine, DapperQ and Lez Spread The Word to make a statement on our commitment to trans inclusion, support and advocacy.
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Monday Roundtable: The Style Icons Who Inspired Our Gay Style
“My style icon is Nancy Meyers’ interpretation of a middle-aged white woman after she’s decided to pull herself together sometime in the second act. Wow that is… I feel very called out by own self.”
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Sunday Funday Is Getting Emotional With Janelle About All Queer Grammy Noms
The Grammy Awards are extra queer, Ellen Degeneres is doing stand up again, trans folks speak out, and more!
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2018’s 30 Best TV Episodes Featuring LGBTQ Women
It’s our last TV list of 2018!
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Is She a Lesbian or Just From the Midwest?
Midwestern lesbian fashion — flannel, Birkenstocks, baseball caps — is ignored at best and looked down upon at worst compared to urban, Shane-esque queer style. What happens when it’s given museum exhibit status?
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NEW MERCH ALERT: Tees and Sweatshirts for Dramatic Dykes, Eternal Bisexuals, Non-Binary Babes and GAYS GAYS GAYS
As always, when you buy our merch, you’re directly putting money into the pockets of the Autostraddle staff, writers and contributors, SO THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING WITH US!
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Toxic
The word of the year, the curiosity crisis in schools, the art of seeing, and more.
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Boobs on Your Tube: “All American” Just Keeps Getting Its Lesbian Story Right
All American tackles internalized homphobia, Charmed gives Mel a devastating choice, Eleanor Shellstrop is horny even when she’s getting dragged into hell, AU! Charlie returns to Supernatural, Beth and Valencia are leaving Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and more!
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Hulu’s “The Bisexual” Is Here to Make Every Queer a Little Uncomfortable
What impresses me most about The Bisexual isn’t that it skewers The Discourse, but that it ignores it completely in favor of having an actual conversation.
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“They Want Trans Shit to Be a PSA”: A Trans Woman Writers’ Roundtable
“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
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HBO’s “Sally4Ever” Is Hilarious, Horrifying, Tries to Make Lesbian Toeing Happen
Our Chief Sally Consultant is also here to weigh in on HBO’s new comedy.
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Sunday Funday Is Glad Missy Elliott Is Getting the Praise She Deserves
Missy Elliott is nominated for the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame, King Princess is queer pop royalty, more about that rainbow wave ??, She-Ra, Beyoncé and more!
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Korean-American Bestselling Author R.O. Kwon Is Bisexual, Has Flawless Signature Eyeshadow
Bestselling author of The Incendiaries is out as bisexual, proud, and giving us big feelings about eyeshadow and representation.
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8 Fiction Books with Non-Binary Characters
Can you believe we haven’t talked about books with non-binary characters yet? Here are eight great ones, mostly written by non-binary authors.
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Stacey Abrams Has Always Shown Up for LGBTQ People, It’s Time to Show Up for Her
Imagine a 2020 campaign where people of color, LGBT people, young people, single women — voters who have been taken for granted for YEARS — get to be the power brokers.
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The Way in Which I Design Myself
“I was once a dancer, a synchronized swimmer, I played acrobat on thick, moss covered logs when I was at the lake, catching myself as I stumbled was a game. Now, I struggle to do eyeliner.”
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Final Girl-on-Girl: Toward a Semi-Unified Theory of Lesbian Horror Movies
We’re all used to watching movies and rooting for the lesbians to live — lesbian horror movies make the gamble that everyone else in the audience will, too.