Results for: queer parenting
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TIFF 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
This year, I saw 38 features and, once again, most of my favorites were independent or not in English. There’s a vast world of cinema beyond Hollywood’s broken system!
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How Chloe Caldwell’s “Women” Shaped My Queer Heartbreak
I couldn’t acknowledge that this was unsustainable, that my life wasn’t the novella I had convinced myself it was.
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49 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Summer 2022
Queer science fiction, fantasy sequels, horror YA, experimental books, short stories, a memoir on (in)fertility, and so much more are heading your way this summer.
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Crop Tops, Saris, and Unlearning Gendered Fashion
I’d avoided saris all my life. It was during the pandemic, when crop tops brought me a sense of freedom and gender euphoria, that I realized saris weren’t too far off.
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories To Get Lost in This Weekend
Find strangeness, horror, spit, and surreality in these five queer short stories available online. And let me know if you want to see more short fiction recs on Autostraddle!
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Three Bisexuals in Their 30s on Coming Out While in Long Term, Monogomous Relationships
“I didn’t want a divorce, didn’t want to open our relationship, didn’t want to start dating other people — I just wanted to own this piece of myself that I’d spent a lifetime denying.”
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Boobs on Your Tube: There Are Some Things More Important Than Being Captain on “Station 19”
Plus updates on Station 19, All American, Fantasy Island, The Power, Saint X, Good Trouble, and NCIS: Hawai’i.
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Asking My Fiancée Questions I Don’t Know the Answers to a Month Before Our Wedding
“Have you ever called someone the wrong name during sex?”
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We Sat On Cakes to Find Our Joy
After months of holding ourselves back in order to keep ourselves and others safe from COVID, we were chasing abundance.
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Brittney Griner Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison by Russian Court, Let This Next Step Bring Her Home
Today is harder than most. But I have to hope — because really, what’s the other choice? — that this guilty verdict is the next step to bringing her home, quickly and safely. There’s no other way.
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HBO Max’s “Sort Of” Tells The Story of Three Transitions
Over the course of eight short episodes, pretty much every character in Sort Of has to contend with their assumptions about themselves and the world around them.
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Lily Tomlin’s “Grandma” Is as Angry as We Are About Anti-Abortion Assholes
I rewatched Grandma the day after Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion was published and I marveled, once again, at how prescient Lily Tomlin’s best roles are.
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I Was Supposed To Be Good At Math
For a split second, I thought about her racial calculations, not because I felt I needed to know, but because maybe, finally, someone might be like me. I knew our skin colors carried the weight of the same questions.
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Eight Queer Punk and Counterculture Books Set in the 90s
90s queer punk / counterculture / DIY books coming up!
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Whatever You Thought “We Are Lady Parts” Was Going to Be, This Ain’t It
“Gone is Ayesha’s confidence. Gone is her swagger. All that’s left is a girl with a crush.”
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The Seduction of Aliens
When I saw a UFO, I was 18 and it was the night before prom.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #50: HOLIGAY HELP
Last-minute handmade gift ideas, a mom who DOES NOT want you to come out to the rest of the family, holiday breakups, wintry music recommendations, and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #63: What If Other People Think You’re “A Lot”?
How do you stop comparing yourself to your girlfriend’s nesting partner, have big life conversations with your partner, deal with feeling your friends don’t love you as much as you love them, and more?
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Autostraddle March Madness: Better Halves — Sci-Fi/Fantasy
One TV Team member called this region “mean.” Another called it a “hate crime.”
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“Nevada” and the Multiverse of Sadness
This is how it feels to come to art too late. It’s no longer an experience of immediate connection, but one of processing, of rewriting.