“i’m going to take a shower and see if it [amy lee voice] wakes me up inside”

Plus updates on Nancy Drew, Legacies, Home Economics, and Top Chef!

Autostraddle’s TV Team shares our picks for the best TV shows of 2020 featuring girls, gays and theys.

“Analyssa, no, that’s National Treasure, that’s not The L Word: Generation Q. I know they’re very similar.”

Feeling made invisible by your own partner’s choices to not come out as both queer and polyamorous is tough. This edition of #PolyamoryProblems dives into how to deal with a partner who is living in a double closet.

Rhea Butcher is back in an episode that explores racism in comedy, as Alice attends the CBTV diversity workshop.

I don’t think it matters much whether Avatar: The Last Airbender is “respectful” of Asian culture. I think the show is racist, and also I like it. I’m interested in what we do with the sense of agency it gives us, how it allows us to critique the structures that exist and envision our own worlds.

Instead of a standard matchup preview, because that’s not really my thing, I thought we’d recap some of the out players on each team and what to watch for from each of them.

Spiritually, we’re all making candles with Queen Latifah.

Lately I’ve been joking that I am everyone’s lesbian aunt (or grandfather, depending on whether or not I am offering encouragement or once again scolding half of our team for not having flashlights in their apartments!). And so I thought, what if I just embraced that vibe and put it to work.

There’s a reason forbidden romances like this spoke to me as a closeted person!

“I feel like people started enacting these borders around it and categorizing it, and that felt so bad and wrong, and the antithesis of everything that it should be. Then, some people also really conflated it with the idea of being genderless or agender, and I’m like, “No…” I feel a lot of gender feelings! I don’t know what they are, or what they mean, but they’re there.”

On Friday, December 11th, the Taylor Swift gay subtext industrial complex sprang into action when she dropped another surprise album during quarantine.

If you think all the buzzer-beating action happened in the NBA this week, it’s probably because you didn’t have access to WNBA games.

My niche skill is terrifying men on the subway. Let me know if you need details.

Grief is not linear, finding help for your top surgery recovery, ways to alleviate feelings of isolation while staying home, and more!

If we’re going to reexamine The Matrix through the lens of the Wachowskis’ transness, it’s time we do the same here. Bound is ready for its estrogen shot.

Thomas: I remember hearing that there was a trans character named Max, and that he gave birth and that possibly he was inspired by my actions.
Riese: A hundred percent, he was inspired by you.
Carly: A thousand percent.

Plus updates on: All American, All Rise, Nancy Drew, Legacies, and Charmed welcomes trans actress Mareya Salazar as the Charmed Ones’ new cousin, Josefina!

Purgatory’s Trivia Night turns into a competition for who has the tastiest brain and Waverly learns why Nicole has been too afraid to show her face in town.