Results for: representation
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Grey’s Anatomy Episode 1112 Recap: This Is Her Song, So Get Off The Stage And Let Her Sing It
Arizona and Callie smile for the first time in ages, while Bailey teaches her husband how to act when a family member comes out as trans.
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Top Chef’s Melissa King: The Autostraddle Interview
We convinced her to share her top secret tips for cooking perfect scrambled eggs!
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Where The (Queer) Girls Are Gonna Be On Your TV This Year
So, this article about the GLAAD “Where We Are on TV” report basically turned into an encyclopedia of LGBTQ female characters we’re gonna see in 2014-2015.
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #1
Where can I hang out with other queers in Portland? Is it okay that I was drunk when I filled out my A+ survey? Skins Fire: why? Why do straight people wear lesbian footwear? These questions of yours and more are answered in this here post.
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Gay, Interrupted: On Navigating Gaybourhoods As A Queer Brown Woman
Gay districts are safer, more open and more profitable than ever before, but for whom?
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Likes It Rough
Rough sex, vanilla, voyeurism, kegels, queer sex workers and more.
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DC Announces Wonder Woman Movie & Possible Female Director; Marvel Announces Five Female-Led Comics
We’ve got a Wonder Woman movie with a woman director! We’ve got not one, but two POC superhero movies! We’ve got Spider-Gwen, Gamora and Mockingbird! We’ve even got Squirrel Girl!
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Don’t Miss Laverne Cox’s Important New Documentary Featuring Trans Youth
Tomorrow MTV and Logo TV will air this heartbreaking, heartwarming, informational and inspirational documentary following the lives of seven young trans people and trans experiences across America.
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Liz Feldman Knows You Want Secret Lesbian Slang On TV: The Autostraddle Interview
“I have the last say on every word. So know that it comes through me. It’s not being written by a bunch of straight people in a room, like, ‘What would a lesbian say?'”
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TV In The Time of Patriarchy Traffics In Ageless Women, Age-Old Stereotypes
Do TV creators internalize the stereotypes portrayed on TV as “normal,” replicating it in their work environments and causing additional stereotyped portrayals? That’s a chicken-or-the-egg question of art imitating life imitating art.
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GLSEN Report Shows It’s Finally Getting Better in Schools For LGBT Youth
“High school and middle school are hard enough as it is. To think about the additional barriers facing these students is pretty heartbreaking, and we all need to stand up and do what we can to move them out of the way.”
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In Which Mari and Mey Have Conflicted Feelings About Trans Terminology and “New York Magazine”
“Does her personal language preference trump what is considered to be the non-offensive way to talk about trans women?”
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Obama Rolls Out Plan For Executive Action On Immigration; The Struggle Continues
Is the President’s plan enough? As long as there are people whose lives and families are in the US remain vulnerable to deportation, is not enough, but it is something, and it is the result of the hard work of thousands of activists who have put everything on the line to make their presence known as undocumented and immigrant Americans who deserve rights and dignity.
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Jasika Nicole Will Teach You Embroidery and Social Justice: The Autostraddle Interview
“I think you can put so many people of color on TV shows, but until there are more people of color who are making those decisions to put those actors and actresses in those roles, we’re not quite at that point yet. We need more Shonda Rhimes in our lives.”
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Salem Episodes 9 and 10 Recap: Free Tituba!
So I know we all watch this show because of Ashley Madekwe’s portrayal of Tituba. And the next two episodes feature this character quite a bit. But holy shit, be ready for a roller coaster of emotions, because Tituba becomes a prisoner of a white bible-thumping, colonial witch hunter.
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GLAAD’s Studio Responsibility Index On Gay Representation Recalls Last Year’s Awful Movies
“Of the 101 films released last year by the six major studios, only five films contained any semblance of queer lady representation.”
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Pretty Little Liars Episode 525 Recap: The Greatest Show on Earth
The pAtriArchy is A, just as we suspected.
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Michfest Could Change Its Trans Female Exclusionary Intention Only If It Tried, Only If It Wanted To
LGBTQ rights groups are joining activists, allies and former performers in opposing Michfest’s trans-female-exclusionary intention, and if Michfest wants to attract new fans, it needs to listen up.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Seven, January 2015
Get those ten vibrators into this cat cafe with your gal pal, STAT. We’ve got business to take care of.
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“Pride” Movie Review: This Lesbian Supports Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
Finally, a movie about gay pride in the 80s that isn’t about gay pride in the 80s.