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Posts tagged The L Word
Bidding Farewell to the L Word - The...
March 8, 2009
“I certainly hope that it leaves them wanting more. I’m not intending to wrap everything up with a neat little bow!” Finale Special (Not the episode) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Fans remain disgruntled with the poor storylines and choppy scenes of the last season (and especially the last... [+]
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08Mar
Quote of the Week - 'Politics is a...
November 20, 2008
Jennifer Beals at the L5 Convention in UK this past weekend said as one of her parting messages that politics is a lot like sex: “If you want something, you have to ask for it, If they’re not doing it right you’ve got to speak up and... [+]
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20Nov
The Last Season of the L Word But L...
November 19, 2008
This weekend at the L5 Convention, Jennifer Beals and Laurel Holloman announced that they would really like to see an L Word movie and we could bring it to fruition by flooding Amy Baer at CBS films with emails. Well, trust the loyal fans to... [+]
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19Nov
The Perversion of Tolerance - I...
November 14, 2008
Tolerance is intolerant and demands assimilation. —Herman Broch, cited in the Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria Conversely, what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its ... [+]
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14Nov
This Gay Marriage (Proposition 8)...
November 1, 2008
See your Halloween No on 8 pumpkin here! I am adamantly set against the idea of marriage. And the idea of my community co-opting the heteronormative institution of marriage and effectively saving it from ‘dying out,’ is a bit irritating. Let the straight people of the... [+]
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01Nov
Selling out the L - Product...
August 10, 2008
Capitalism strikes again and this time quite close to home. Whoring our community out to brand names so that inhumane corporations like Nike can “improve their image” and “capture new markets” while continuing their horrendous policies worldwide is absolutely not responsible. It’s degrading and dehumanizing when... [+]
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10Aug
The Sexist Politics of Online...
July 17, 2008
Youtube has a strict policy of banning boobs or nipple show (unless we are talking educational material like self-examination – Actually on that note I am even going to defend the educational value of love scenes but not here). Getting to the point, someone please... [+]
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17Jul
If history is indeed written by...
May 13, 2008
I take great inspiration from this quote by Jennifer Beals at an NAACP event a few years ago: “It has been said, ‘History is written by the victors.’ I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories.... [+]
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13May