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Real L Word 308 Recap: Premonitions Sure Are Dreamy And Disturbing

This week on The Real L Word, some people fell in love and some people yelled at each other and some people can be content playing bingo and paying rent!

By Riese| September 3, 2012 | 146 Comments
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Real L Word 305 Recap: I Wasn’t Expecting This To Be So Bitchy

This week on The Real L Word, everybody went to Dinah Shore and talked about each other to each other!

By Riese| August 13, 2012 | 116 Comments
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Real L Word 304 Recap: Scissor Sisters Meet Tongue Twisters

This week on “The Real L Word,” various lesbians sat at tables and talked to each other!

By Riese| August 5, 2012 | 113 Comments
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Unicorn Plan-It Episode 5: Hunting Bambi

Episode #105 is chock-full of guest stars and other hijinks! Also, UNICORN PLAN-IT T-SHIRTS ARE HERE!

By Riese| November 1, 2011 | 29 Comments
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Real L Worlds Collide For Vote For Equality Charity Basketball Game

Are you in Los Angeles this Saturday? Come out to The Real L Word charity basketball game for Vote for Equality’s efforts to defend The FAIR Education Act!

By Jess| September 21, 2011 | 6 Comments
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Real L Word’s Kelsey Chavarria Is A Poet & You Didn’t Know It: The Auto-Interview

The Real L Word’s Kelsey Chavarria chats about love, loss and what she wears. Also, an original poem and an exclusive first look at her latest photoshoot!

By Jess| September 12, 2011 | 31 Comments
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Autostraddle T-Shirts and Stickers Are Back! Get Some!

Yup. The moment you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Buy yourself a little something for Labor Day, you deserve it!

By Riese| September 1, 2011 | 77 Comments
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The Real L Word Episode 209 Recap: The Pieces Fall Into Place On Top of Each Other

Free at last, free at last. Thank Ilene Chaiken almighty, this show is finally f-cking over at last.

By Riese| August 3, 2011 | 98 Comments
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VIDEO: Real L Word’s Lesbians Share Coming Out Stories and Common Misconceptions

Whitney, Claire, Sajdah, Kelsey, Sarahahahara, Scarlett (YES SCARLETT), Alyssa, Romi, Vivianne, Francine, Cori and Kacy share coming out stories and also debunk common “lesbian misconceptions.”

By Riese| July 30, 2011 | 27 Comments
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Real L Word Episode 208 Recap: The Hardest Time to Write This Rhyme

This week on The Real L Word, everybody cried because everybody hurts, sometimes.

By Riese| July 28, 2011 | 134 Comments
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Real L Word Episode 207 Recap: Play With Fire and Microwave Your Desire

“Wow. You’re evil. You’re EVIL! You’re lying and you’re EVIL!”

By Riese| July 19, 2011 | 114 Comments
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Real L Word Episode 206 Recap: Baby Batter Up Up and Away

Did you know that in Argentina, this show is advertised as “the show for women that every man will want to watch”?

By Riese| July 12, 2011 | 155 Comments
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Real L Word Episode 205 Recap: It’s About to Get Juicy Juice

Another captivating episode of that weird reality show about lesbians. This week everyone goes on a field trip but none of those field trips are roller derby.

By Riese| July 5, 2011 | 137 Comments
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Real L Word 204 Recap: The Other L Word (I Think It’s “Limoncello”)

The Real L Word returns with even more drinking and slightly less sperm and no Francine whatsoever.

By Riese| June 29, 2011 | 134 Comments
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Real L Word Episode 203 Recap: Back to Square One, Look What We’ve Become

The good news is that my recap is done / “I wish instead of being this show, this show was a re-run of Friends”

By Riese| June 22, 2011 | 87 Comments
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Autostraddle T-Shirts Are Back!

It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for, Autostraddle t-shirts are here!

By Alex| June 20, 2011 | 166 Comments
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Romi’s Revenge: An Autostraddle Real L Word Season Two Interview

“Like yes, am I a lesbian who has sex and falls in love and gets my heart broken and gets drunk? Yes, but I’m a lot of other things too.”

By Jess| June 15, 2011 | 100 Comments
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Real L Word Episode 202 Recap: The Morning After We Got Drunkity Drunk Drunk

13 Lesbian Conversations About the Same Thing.

By Riese| June 13, 2011 | 209 Comments
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The Real L Word Recap: Episode 201 – Fresh Start Body Parts

Second verse, same as the first, but a little bit louder and a much less worse.

By Riese| June 6, 2011 | 144 Comments
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Real L Word Returns for Season 2 With Extra Sexy Lesbian Sex

This post is NSFW and a giant SPOILER ALERT, and also it’s about Season Two of “The Real L Word,” which is about two girls, one gay and a pizza place. Something like that.

By Riese| May 31, 2011 | 81 Comments
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