WHAT’S IN THE LIVE PLANT BOX? It’s raging feminist Carmen Rios, our special guest for this week’s episode of “To L and Back”! If you’ve been reading Autostraddle for a minute then you’re familiar with Carmen, have missed her a lot, and will be VERY eager to hear her opinions on this week’s episode in which Carmen De La Pica Morales pours a lot of beer on Shane’s shirt, Shane gets a very attentive flower delivery person, Dana plays in the Rooti Tooti Fresh and Fruity Tennis Tournament but is a little distracted about how badly she needs to tell Ton-Ton that she’s totally not in this relationship anymore, Alice has knit herself a full outfit, Bette wears jeans for the first time and would like to talk about what Tina’s gonna do with that baby, and Helena gets really horny at a donor dinner and invites Tina to hang at the Chateau Marmont pool… NAKED. Also, Charlotte Birch holds office hours at the gym and Carmen wears a controversial t-shrit!
Episode Index:
+ Listling Without Commentary: Conversations I Had While Watching The L Word For The First Time
+ Our interview with Ann Bannon, Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, author of “Odd Girl Out,” which was sitting on Shenny’s table
+ Bitch Magazine Podcasts
+ Dare to Lead, by Brene Brown
+ Urban Outfitters Continues Its Ugly Track Record Of Anti-Semitism And General Awfulness: Includes the “Everyone Loves a Jewish Girl” t-shirt controversy
+ Dyke Deck
+ The Wild Unknown
+ Okay it was in the series finale of Season One that Tonya mentioned Melissa Rivers for the first time. It was at the art opening, after eveyrbody told Ton-Ton and Dana that they were dressed alike. Ton-Ton goes “You have to meet Melissa Rivers — Melissa? Hi!” and then drags Dana offscreen
+ Are You Afraid Of The Dark: The Tale Of Cutter’s Treasure Part Two (1994) featuring Charles S Dutton
+ The Chateau Marmont
+ 31 Most Iconic L Word Outfits, Ranked By Incandescence includes the tennis-watching trio of outfits I noted as being especially gorgeous this episode