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VIDEO + OPEN THREAD: Watch “Words With Girls” Now!

It’s finally here. Are you nervous? I’m nervous. I mean, this thing I made and am inis now on the internet and not the corner of the internet I usually inhabit even. Anyway, I’ll be here basically all day answering questions, chatting about the pilot, and hoping no one says anything too mean on YouTube. If you need to be prompted on things to say about the pilot, just ask, as I have lots of examples such as: “I found myself almost too distracted to watch because of how attractive everyone was” and also, “I’d love for this to go to series but who could possibly be on the writing staff when Brittani has a voice that is truly inimitable?” But those are just examples or whatever.

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Community Scrapbook: These Are Photos of Your Smiling, Brunchtastic Faces

Remember last month when we all got together for brunch? It was so great. I, myself, found it to be possibly the best morning of my entire summer, and also the best afternoon, and I wasn’t alone in that because the moment was shared with about a zillion queermos from Australia to Canada to the US and the UK who came together to enjoy uproarious laughter, a champagne buzz, and possibly a delicious platter of tater tots with each other.
To keep the good times at the forefront of your mind, I’ve compiled a gallery of your adorable brunch photos and amazing-looking brunch food shots that will make sure these days live forever in whatever the opposite of infamy is.

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Drawn to Comics’ One-Year Anniversary Presents The First Annual Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards

We’re living in a time when women, especially women of color and queer women, are enjoying more and more opportunities to star in and even make their own comics. There are all sorts of amazing comics being put out by mainstream and indie publishers, and with the rise of webcomics, its easier and easier to find stories that resonate with your life. Yes, there are still plenty of problems. Women, again, especially women of color and queer women, are still vastly underrepresented both when it comes to creators and characters. Women are still too often killed off or used as sex objects in comics. Women are too often called Fake Geek Girls in real life. So when we find comics that not only feature queer women – either as characters or creators – or feminist messages, we need to highlight and celebrate them. That’s what I’ve been attempting to do with Drawn to Comics over this past year, and now that’s what we hope to do with the first annual Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards.

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While we’re stuck in hiatus I feel like I should bring to everyone’s attention that Autostraddle’s Orphan Black recaps are pure gold.

10/10 would recommend.

It’s Bisexual Awareness Week! Here Are Five Ways To Celebrate

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Bisexual people make up more than 50 percent of the LGB community, but media, the mainstream, and even LGBT groups often erase our experiences and specific needs or fold them into lesbian and gay programs and statistics. BiNet USA, GLAAD and other organizations hope the first ever Bisexual Awareness Week will be a step toward making more space for the B in LGBT.

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She Asked If She Still Made Me Nervous

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I met a girl who scares me. She’s scared me since I first sat next to her on a cloudy April afternoon, too nervous to say anything. But she doesn’t know that she scares me. And I’ve met plenty of girls before. I asked her what she was doing, told her I wanted to drive to the ocean.
She said, “I want to run away too.”
I told her I had a few dollars to my name, barely any traceable debt. Then I imagined the two of us, windows rolled down, the soundtrack to a new life. Her vulnerable, without knowing she is being anything other than herself. Me, watching her, my body quivering at every glance my way. I imagined the burnt cigarettes in our mouths, the stories we would tell, hands waving in the wind, feet on the dashboard, bare legs in the sun. I imagined the stops we would make, the people we would be, and I fell in love with her. But I’ve met plenty of girls before and I’ve only kissed her once.

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The A+ Bee, Issue Four: Please Won’t You Bee My Neighbor?

Hello and welcome to a very special A+ Bee! Guess what, I accidentally worked all day with the collar popped on my denim jacket, so this edition of the Bee is INFUSED WITH COOLNESS, probably. Maybe. It’s possible. Either way! Chelsey and I feel pret-tay good about this issue, and we suspect you will too.

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Comedy Crush: Everything Brittani Nichols Touches Turns to Hilarious

It’s been a while, but I’m still not out of nice things to say about Brittani Nichols. In case you’re new around here, Brittani is the writer-rapper-comedian who brought Words With Girls into your life (and TV). B’s production credentials include working on You Above All, The Lovely Rejects, Mimic, The Voice, and The Silent Thief, which I learned from her IMDb profile because she has one because she’s practically Hollywood royalty. She likes quesadillas and cider, hates hipsters, and is hilarious. Words With Girls premieres tomorrow on Color Creative TV.

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How Racism, Not Shonda Rhimes, Created The Angry Black Woman

It’s not the first time New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley has come under fire for egregious fact-checking errors in major publications, but it’s certainly the most racist.

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The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!

The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.

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8 Indie Games Featuring Queer Relationships, Eroticism, and Hugs

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It can be hard out there for a queermo gamer. Sexism, racism and homophobia in the larger gaming community aside, it’s just plain hard to find games that feature queer characters or roleplaying games (RPG) that allow players to queer up their own characters. For every simulation game like The Sims, which has been helping us live out our queer suburban fantasies since 2000, there are dozens of other mainstream games that… well, focus on things besides sex and romance. While it’s not necessary for a game to define the relationship and sexual norms of its world, you can bet the players think about them. If there’s anything I’ve learned from my years as an awkward, questioning teenager with unsupervised internet access, it’s that there’s a sexual sub-subculture to every subculture.

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i was talking to L last night and we touched on the subject of misogyny at wellesley but were both falling asleep. and so much has just been stuck in my head. i had to re-read this piece. i’m so happy it was written.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.