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“Orange Is The New Black” Broke Everybody’s Heart To Teach Idiots A Lesson [AUTOSTRADDLE]

June 20, 2016Autostraddle, Bury Your Gays, Orange is the New Black

Did this show need to sacrifice one of television’s few black lesbian characters in order to teach incredibly ignorant white people a lesson they really should’ve already learned by now? Bailey is a sympathetic character and he should not be. There should be no question about who’s fault this murder was, the brutalization visited on the body of a black woman as brutality is visited on black bodies all across this country by white men in uniforms. We already know the system is capable of murdering Poussey. That point has been proven for many seasons now. If we’re going to…

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Serial Lesbian TV Character Killer Strikes Again: “Empire” Murders Two Terrible Women [AUTOSTRADDLE]

April 6, 2016Autostraddle

Every lesbian TV character death doesn’t need to be a reflection of a showrunner’s malicious intent or a disregard of queer investment in order to be part of a troubling overall culture that we’re all interested in dismantling and looking at a little bit more closely.

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Autostraddle’s Ultimate Infographic Guide to Dead Lesbian TV Characters [AUTOSTRADDLE]

March 25, 2016Autostraddle, Bury Your Gays

Autostraddle: “There’s a reason the same-sex marriage approval rating in the U.S. rose in direct proportion to the number of gay characters on television. Story gets inside us and changes the alchemy of who we are.”

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Pop Culture Fix: Is Lexa’s Death on “The 100” the Beginning of a Lesbian TV Revolution? [AUTOSTRADDLE]

March 23, 2016Autostraddle

In the three weeks since Lexa died on The 100, the conversation about lesbian and bisexual characters on TV has taken a turn I never expected. Bury Your Gays is a trope queer fans and TV critics have been fighting against for decades. We comprise such a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the total number of TV characters in existence, and continue to fight daily against stigmatism and oppression in the real world, so when TV writers casually toss another dead body onto the pile (that already includes 147 other dead lesbian and bisexual characters), it’s almost impossible not to…

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“The 100” Proves There’s Nothing New Under The Sun [AUTOSTRADDLE]

March 4, 2016Autostraddle, The 100

Well, I feel dumb. I feel dumb for calling Clarke and Lexa our bookend couple when their storyline is so reminiscent of so many tragedies from more twenty years ago. Things aren’t different. They’re so much the same. My problem is that instead of seeing Lexa die in Clarke’s arms, I see the strings around them. Instead of hearing “I don’t want another commander, I want you,” I hear “contractual obligations” and “plot device.” I didn’t even start to feel sad about Lexa’s death until two hours later, and still in a mixture of anger and hurt about what this…

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