#GenerationQ

[barterpc]

[bidotorg]

Funny bi Margaret Cho pops up in season 3 of "Generation Q"! See how it scored on the Unicorn Scale!

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday @jenniferbeals #jenniferbeals #actress #Flashdance #VampiresKiss #MrsParkerandtheViciousCircle #DevilinaBlueDress #TheLastDaysofDisco #RogerDodger #TheBookofEli #BeforeIFall #LuckiestGirlAlive #TheChicagoCode #Proof #Taken #TheBookofBobaFett #TheLWord #GenerationQ

[nightworld7]

Watch "Are you in love like we are? #FLETCHER #thelwordgenerationq #showtime" on YouTube

[tibetteforever]

you know what this is? growth.

[syrupandhonneeyy]

So we’re not getting tibette in the reboot?.......... i hate it here

[queer-failures]

Vote Bette Porter

As a teenager, I was obsessed with Showtime’s hit The L Word (2004-2009). I remember watching late-night reruns on Fox Live and clutching the remote so my mother doesn’t walk in during one of (very frequents) sex scenes and becomes suspicious about my sexual orientation. As I grew up in a small, conservative town (to put it politely), I haven’t really encountered many openly gay people (especially femme lesbians) so The L World was one of my first encounters with queer content. Van Zoonen’s claim “that television culture has become a dominant, if not the dominant, means for interpreting social and political life” (2) really resonates with my experience (hence the oversharing in the opening sentences). However, I will engage with only one aspect of The L Word’s 2019 reboot – Bette Porter’s political career.

The L Word: Generation Q seems committed to tackling political issues and including characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds, gender presentations, and body types (but not class positions) while combining those novel elements with soap opera motives such as interpersonal drama (mostly adultery) and repetitive plots. These narrative elements are intersected with a plethora of sex scenes which, I think, made the show more popular with broader (i.e. straight male) audience while also exemplifying how the representation of lesbian relationships in the mainstream culture can simultaneously be exploitative and progressive. Bette Porter’s run for mayor of LA (the first female and openly gay mayor at that) is a narrative line that suggests that the show started to take itself more seriously. Her campaign shows how the “sensitivity, intuition, and care” (12) are used as a political strategy. Unlike her opponent, rich old white man involved with the big pharma, Bette is portrayed as a person of integrity. When the news about (ongoing) affair with a married employee are leaked by her opponent, she refuses to publish compromising details about him which enforces modernist understanding of politics as a rational and meritocracy-based field and counters homophobic ideas about homosexuals as immoral deceivers. 

Power misbalance of employer-employee relationship is glossed over and Bette is made into even more sympathetic character through her personal motivation (untimely overdose of her sister Kit empowered her to tackle the opioid crisis in LA) and caring relationship with her mentee Dani as well as protectives of her daughter Angie. Also, her questionable characteristics from the original run are severely downplayed: she is a good candidate precisely because she doesn’t engage in soap-like tactics. However, her speech at the LGBT youth center shows that the show creators’ take on politics is still somewhat exclusionary: Bette presents herself as an image of the better future that awaits underprivileged youth while downplaying her class privilege and Ivy-league education. Her audience is, as expected, touched and impressed by the speech.

Finally, a different narrative line demonstrates how political engagement is often only an afterthought in The L World: Alice Pieszecki, Bette’s friend and a host of a talk show, manages to get a (real-life) cultural critic Roxane Gay as a guest. Gay’s quite interesting take on being a bad feminist vs. being a bad queer is overshadowed by Alice’s messy post-breakup reunion with Nat that will, it is suggested, make her show viral. Similar formula (soap opera combined with political engagement) made The L World famous. However, some of its aspects (especially focus on privileged gays and lesbians framed as representatives of the whole community) need to be challenged.  

Van Zoonen, Liesbet: “Politics as Soap Opera.” In Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2005.

[boxerrizzoli]

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING MY HEART CAN’T DEAL WITH THIS IT’S BEEN 11 YEARS BUT MY TIBETTE IS BACK AND I AM HAVING A PANIC ATTACK BECAUSE ALL I WANNA DO IS SCREAM BECAUSE MY FAVE COUPLE IN THE WORLD WAS TOGETHER AGAIN AND I GOT TO SEE IT. THANK YOU L WORD GENERATION Q.

[jarrydwillis]

Having previously dated a #biromantic #Asexual woman & empathizing with her challenges, I’m truly proud of #OuterWorlds for so lovingly & poignantly writing an #Ace protagonist in Parvati! Even better that @keightdee brought in @ashlyburch (aka #Aloy aka #ChloePrice ) to play her! I truly hope organizations focused on giving voices to underrepresented groups, #LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 rights, Asexual Awareness, & focused on behavioral inclusion as much as numerical diversity will put their weight behind Kate at the next #VIdeoGameAwards & #GoldenJoystickAwards! Looking at @glaad & @polygondotcom too. And Kate, please keep writing 😌 Our generation has truly been blessed to experience intersectional intergroup narratives through a medium far more interactive than the passivity of television. Brilliant writers & narrative designers like yourself place us within these distant worlds, & I’m glad they’re increasingly being recognized for being the masterpieces that they are. (Side note: I’ll be 100% into the passivity of tv once #TheLWord season 7 starts! #GenerationQ ) 🌈 #Parvati ❤️ #Asexuality 🧡 #Ace 💛 #Visibility 💚 #Bisexual 💙 #TheOuterWorlds 💜 (at UCSD - University of California San Diego) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4bP5J-Anv0/?igshid=8x9ysduwz8zy

[fortheloveofvillaneve]

Unpopular opinion? Maybe Jenny isn’t dead after all....

Casting votes on who the mystery person is that is the shocker for this season.

[deborarte]

#Hotspot: se nos pianta un lagrimon... pero... se viene lo nuevo. ¿Ya vieron el primer capítulo de la nueva generación? ¿Qué les pareció? . ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ #da #thelword #generationq #dana #shane #alice #katemoennig #leishahayley #erindaniels #tlw https://www.instagram.com/p/B55OheugkaG/?igshid=1sxcadnwsn7je

[imonlyseveenteen]

Something could give me the links for the 1x1 episode of generation q, please

OK, I FOUND THE LINK !!!

https://okfreemovies.com/tv-series/the-l-word-generation-q-season-1

[pride25]

Link in my bio to access all episodes of season 1 thru my website :) #lword #lwordgenerationq #generationq #jenniferbeals #betteporter #alice #katemoennig #series https://www.instagram.com/p/B-hUxWgHtO3/?igshid=1vqqtyrodpyoo

[lesbianforhorror]

if jenny isn’t in the new l word so i really don’t care about it  if she is i still kind of don’t care lol. also i still have war flashbacks from the og series like

[baekingtime-blog]

I refuse to believe any of this.