Autostraddle

Yes.

Um, okay, for TV shows for me, so I have pulled up, basically there's like a list on Autostraddle of the best lesbian and queer TV shows on Netflix, and it's actually sort of crazy to remember how many there have been.

Even if they've been one season.

Uh, it's funny, Lee, 'cause you didn't say First Kill, and I thought you were gonna say First Kill.

I'll really, I will, I always cite Drew Burnett Gregory's piece on

Autostraddle, giving poppers to cis women.

Yes.

Iconically, also, where the line dykes and faggots are the same comes from to me, which I say constantly, is that essay is so important to me.

Mm-hmm

... and I'm also looking at an, I believe it's an Autostraddle article... or sorry, it's an Indiemagazine, Botched Surgery, Forced Transition, and Gay Fear: How Hedwig Hurt Trans Representation, just to get a feel for what these arguments are.

One that I, I, that chafed with me a bit was I guess I d- like, Hedwig lashes out tremendously at the people in her life in this movie in a way that makes a lot of sense to me.

Like, I think sometimes it's like... and we've talked about this on the show before.

All of those legacy publications have gone out of business.

There's really only two that sort of mirror legacy, and that's Every Queer, my publication, and Autostraddle.

Autostraddle, they do incredible work.

They're more focused on like pop culture and like fandom kind of stuff, but you can find great information with them as well.

And then there was the rise of the content creator and the social media influencer.

My guest this week is Jess Rothschild.

Jess is a podcaster and journalist, one of the founding writers at Autostraddle, and her latest project is a documentary podcast called Finding Fire Island about the history of Fire Island, Cherry Grove, and the Pines.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Amazing.

Now, I did not know this when I was doing my research.

You were one of the founding writers at Autostraddle? Yeah.

I love Autostraddle.

I look this up.

The latest count I could get from Autostraddle, which is like a lesbian site, is that there are 51 players out there.

In the W currently.

And I do like to surprise you.

I saw this a lot with women's cycling.

There was this group called Save Women's Sports who I wrote about for Autostraddle a few years ago, achieving a journalistic lifetime goal

by writing for Autostraddle.

They very clearly knew nothing about cycling.

They made this video of...