Podcasts about Be Steadwell

By now you've surely heard that The L Word: Generation Q is no more, and boy are we sad about it! Come join us to commiserate the end of our problematic fave, to talk about the state of queer television at large, and what We, the hosts of To L and Back, would have happen to all of the characters after the end of this season! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein  

If this season was all episodes featuring a big event, this sure is a fitting finale. This week, on the final episode of the season, Bette and Tina wed, and finally stroll off together, hand in hand, into the sunset and (presumably) their long-awaited happily ever after. So much of what happens at the wedding is delightful: Bette and Tina get locked in the walk-in fridge, Alice is responsible for booze and calling Tasha (to save the brides, of course), Sophie and Pippa share a beautiful flirtatious afternoon. G Flip and Chrishell arrive, and Roxy is back to play and Dani is on drugs! So it's also a big bummer that Tess, Micah and Maribel specifically end the season in truly dour places. From the low of a relapse storyline to the highs of every single second Tasha was onscreen, this feels a fitting send-off to the season we loved to discuss so much. We love you, we'll miss you, we hope you enjoyed the ride! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

A strong breeze has blown into Los Angeles this week and with it, the return of Bette and Tina!  Angie's moms are back to get her out of bed and performing at her creative writing class reading and discover the relationship that has her sulking unshowered in bed. Shane and Tess are fighting over the second bar, but in a new and more final way. Finley is helping Carrie recover from her (obnoxious, to us) heart attack. And of course, Alice's movie meltdown has gotten her cancelled again, with one of our season-long prayers answered (no spoilers) as a result!!  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

In case you're family drama-ed out after all of the winter holidays that just passed, The L Word Gen Q is here to provide a fresh supply! It's Thanksgiving at Dana's, and Finley's mom has arrived! Sadly, she did not bring a green bean casserole, just a bad attitude. All roads lead to Dana's in this episode, as it becomes the go-to location for Dani and Dre, who are spending the holiday together, Carrie and Misty, who are turkey trotting, and the entire Suarez family who are still mashing potatoes upon arrival.  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

In a world where there is a major social event every single weekend, it is now time for an album release party! Fletcher's album release party, to be exact, which Dani is throwing, Micah and Maribel are cruising (for sperm donors), and Sophie wreaks sapphic chaos upon! And if that's not enticing enough, there's also skinny dipping! Elsewhere, we're delighted by a Carrie-Finley messaround, and Alice attempts to revisit a different ex this week: Tom! Delightful side plots ensue. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Hold onto your hats because we have a musical episode! Not, sadly, a musical episode of this podcast, but this week The L Word finally graced us with the beauty of Rosanny Zayas voice, with the style of a 40s musical, and with an emotional gut punch of grief mixed with nostalgia mixed with TRUE LOVE. Before all that happens though: Alice is taking her staff (and Shane!) on a work retreat to do some ayahuasca and soul searching. Alice, Sophie and Shane experience hallucinations that drop them into three different musicals as they seek answers to their most pressing questions! Will Shane finally realize she's non-monogamous? Will Sophie figure out her sort of vague issue with Finley? Will Alice ever fall in love?! All this and more (namely, musical numbers!) await this week. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Well well well, we are halfway through the season, and things are getting heated! Not necessarily in a sexy way, but in more of a fighting and fire alarm and first kisses kind of way. Alice and Taylor are arguing in a movie theater, Shane and Tess are arguing on a balcony, and Sophie and Finley are only not arguing because the fire department is on their way! We're also getting a little heated on the pod this week! Not necessarily in an angry way, but (hopefully) in more of a sharing our thoughts about writing and representation kind of way. What better time than mid-way through the season? Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Spooky scary skeletons, it's a Halloween episode! We've got thrills, chills, and parties galore. One of the more realistic things that's ever happened in The L Word universe is the endless list of Halloween options for our Gen Q friends. Alice and Taylor are getting cozy at home, in the time honored tradition of three-straight days of gay sex. Sophie, Finley and Dani hit Dana's for a costume party, while Shane is hitting on Ivy. And in search of more parenting advice from queer elders, Micah and Maribel meet none other than very special guest and original The L Word icon, Max, back from living his own happily ever after far, far away (spiritually, I mean, he's still in LA) from all of these messy weirdos, to grace us with his presence once more. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

On today's episode, Chris K (any pronouns) joins us for a vulnerable conversation about their journey into the liberation of polyamory and unfolding the matrix. Together we talk about the expansiveness of connection, the surrender and trust needed to find security in change, and how our identity shifts through relationships. If you enjoyed today's podcast, then please subscribe, leave a review, or share this podcast with a friend! And if you want to connect deeper with the Modern Anarchy Family, then join the movement by becoming a part of the conscious objectors patreon. Your support is what powers this work and the larger societal change we are creating! Let's continue to challenge our assumptions and grow together. Join the community here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54121384 50% of all patreon pledges will be used to support the National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/ Intro and Outro Song: Wild Wild Woman by Your Smith Modern Anarchy Community: Instagram Facebook Patreon Resources to Learn More: Can't Help but Fly (feat. Be Steadwell & Luqman Frank) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/modern-anarchy/support

Winter has arrived in Los Angeles this week, bringing a chill in the air, some light rain, and something totally new: a Bette-Porter-free episode of The L Word! While Bette and Tina are presumably off in Toronto frolicking and kissing and looking at art, The Aloce Show hosts its 100th episode, and with it, a dating game to find Alice The One. All sorts of shenanigans take place on the set of the Aloce Show this week, from breakups to hook-ups and make-ups and makeovers! Also, that boy Angie kissed last week? Actually a grown man, and also her teacher. Yikes! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

This week, of course, everyone is talking about Bette and Tina! Look, sometimes you have to get back together with your ex! While Bette and Tina are having their own season finale, we're also talking this week about Micah and Mari's potential baby (not as poorly as Finley though, we promise), Shane and Tess's metaphorical baby (the bar), and whether we generally feel insecure in our own romantic relationships (not all of us!). Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Hello again! Did you miss us!? Most importantly, did you miss The L Word!?!? Then boy do we have a treat for you! After a quick one year time jump, the gang is back and we've got a big event: a fundraiser at Dana's. In other big events of the episode: Finley returns from rehab and sober living, Micah wants to marry Mari, and yes okay of COURSE we have the long awaited conclusion to Tina showing up at Bette's doorstep. Will these two crazy kids finally make it work? Let's find out together! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Get on in here to listen to the last episode of To L and Back of the season! Last week I said that things were starting to get capital-S Serious and well, I wasn't wrong. Relive the head-spinning relationship escalations of Tess/Shane and Alice/Tom! Yell with us about Finley's intervention! And obviously, obviously, let's all gasp together about that ending! And friends, because it is our final episode of the season, I will be honest and brave in this post and say: I did not dislike this episode as much as my pals Drew and Riese! But more than anything I will be honest and say we've had such a blast recapping this often infuriating, always entertaining television program this season and we hope you had a blast listening. If we made you laugh or cry or even just roll your eyes, please consider donating the Autostraddle fundraiser! And let's all keep our fingers crossed for another season, because as Riese says, even when we hate it...we love it!    Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Much like Pippa Pascal on this here TV program, the hosts of To L and Back have some trust issues! We've gone from epic highs (the karaoke episode) to some extreme lows, and so despite our best efforts and despite the number of shindigs in this episode, it's a little hard to relax into this installment of our much beloved television series. Because yes, while it's firmly homecoming season in the real world, in The L Word it's prom night! Angie is wearing a suit and grappling with her feelings about not getting the chance to meet her donor. The adults gather at Bette's to drink, gossip, and make-out in inappropriate places! Meanwhile, Sophie tries to search for Finley by making phone calls to various law enforcement agencies while also fighting with her family because we only have one episode left so you know things gotta get capital-S Serious...   Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

So is this is how season 2 implodes - not with a bang, but with a deeply confusing whimper? Welcome to this week's episode of To L and Back where, honestly, we have some notes! We spend quite a bit of time talking about the writing of this episode of Gen Q, rather than the actual events that transpire, which as Riese says is....not always a great sign.    But among the needless conflicts (Dani thinking Bette would want to see the Nunez name on the CAC, and gambling Pippa's show for leverage), the baffling conversations (Micah telling Claudia he has feeling for someone else to her FACE), and the upsetting events (Sophie and Finley's whole deal), there were still some treats! Micah's jawline, for one, and Gigi's tongue, for two. Throw in a sex scene backlit by the soft neon lights of the Las Vegas strip and you still have a tough episode -- but one that had a sex scene backlit by the soft neon lights of the Las Vegas strip.    Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

It's another beautiful week in Los Angeles and you know what that means! Another big poker game, because that's what lesbians do for fun here! This particular game is a fundraiser for MS that Tess and Shane seem to have organized in one calendar day, but logistics like that won't stop this from being the new social event of the season! Until, of course, next week when it will be replaced by the launch party for Alice's book.   But for now, we've got Alice and Nat hooking up (again) then breaking up (again), Sophie and Finley having sex on set (again), and Bette being mean to Carrie (again, but worse this time!) Honestly, a lot of events transpire in this episode that we didn't love, including drunk driving! But in more wholesome news, Jordi asks Angie to prom while dancing in a fountain and SO MANY people kiss in the rain that we have to consider whether they WANT their hair to get frizzy. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

There are few things I love more in this world than a karaoke night. This dates back to college when I stumbled into a karaoke night during an ill-advised Wednesday night out before finals week, and found a KJ playing saxophone while a regular named Rapper John performed "Gangnam Style." And (sadly, devastatingly) there is nothing that seems more ill-advised right now, in the middle of the ongoing pandemic, than being in a sweaty room full of strangers who are yelling their faces off to "Mr. Brightside." But luckily for all of us, there is no Covid in the world of The L Word and so there is nothing stressful about being at a bar, singing karaoke - except of course, for all the drama that could ensue. And ensue it does! Eyes are made across the bar, fights are had, drinks are sent. Big romantic gestures are made, and it cannot be said enough that, through it all, Gigi wears an absolutely absurd sweater. What a gift.   Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Oh baby, the boys are back in town! And of course by "the boys" I mean "Cherrie Jaffe" and by "back in town" I mean "standing in front of Shane, causing chaos." Yes, it turns out that Tess's new girlfriend of one week that prevented her from kissing Shane back last episode is none other than Cherie "rank little love nest" Jaffe (nee Peroni). She was summoned by all that remembering of the past that our friends were engaging in last week, and she's here to keep Tess and Shane from kissing any time in the near future! Speaking of affairs, Finley is attempting to get over Sophie this week by getting under someone else. Also getting under each other are Micah and Maribel! Riese is thrilled. Not getting any action this week is Alice, who is busy crying over Nat and then bonding with Tom over lobsters. And finally, let's all start the Jordan Hull Emmy campaign right now, everybody in? Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Folks, it has finally happened. The members of our OG L Word cast have finally awoken from their decade-long collective dream and remembered that they have a past! Shane shares her regret about Carmen with Angie, and still definitely wants to get with Alice's mom. Alice, already busy crying over her break-up with Nat, decides to make us all cry by talking about Dana Fairbanks. Our friend Bette is too busy looking at Pippa Pascal in awe to remember that she has definitely done more stuff worth remembering than just "cheated on Tina seventeen years ago." (Justice for Jodi.) Meanwhile, our Gen Q crew is off doing things that they will conveniently forget to mention when they are in the next reboot 10 years from now. Sophie and Finley are starting to spend more time together, and of course Dani and Micah have feelings and thoughts about that (though Micah's thoughts and feelings seem to be growing in Maribel's direction, tbh). Listen to us unpack it all on To L and Back, and we'll even tell you our first AIM screennames as a treat!  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Amid the break-ups, the make-ups and the new pairings we're excited about, on this week's episode of To L and Back (Generation Q...edition...), we also discuss the nuance required for meaningful conversations about tokenism and identity on television! Other topics include some ideas for a Bachelor / L Word crossover, some jobs Finley might actually be good at, and Angie's baffling DNA test results. If none of those interest you, there's always Tess and Shane getting up to some illegal things! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of our Gen Q friends' actions! We're back for another episode full of talking, laughing, loving, breathing, and heavy on the fighting, as everyone deals with the fall out from the wedding, Shane schemes a new way to become richer, and Alice finally meets her editor. Meanwhile we discuss whether the people who hurt us deserve to be happy again! And also the top shortage. We're bringing that discussion back around. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

After what feels like truly forever, we finally get to check back in with our Gen Q crew! On this week's episode we get answers to burning questions like, who was Sophie running toward in the airport? Will Shane ever learn who she's allowed to flirt with? How much do we love Carrie? And is thinking cheating? Just kidding, that last one will be discussed until the end of time, apparently! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

The premiere of The L Word Generation Q's Season 2 is just five days away so join Drew, Analyssa and Riese as we do a very quick recap of last season and dig into the most thrilling parts of the Season 2 Trailers. LIKE BETTE AND GIGI!!! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Drew Gregory (@draw_gregory) and Analyssa Lopez (@analoco_ & @analocaa) Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Gen Q Logo: Jacqi Ko @yojaxko Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

It's Saturday morning and surprise! We've got a new theme song! Also, Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Go follow @aemyn on Twitter for more great content and grab this song and so many other of their great musical creations on Bandcamp! Ben has been playing a game about space on a great new gaming console called a "whim". Hannah FINALLY MOVED and so far her house is NOT haunted! Erin got a motherflippin ICE CREAM MAKER! HOMEWORK: - Play No Man's Sky anywhere OR watch Ben stream it on Twitch at twitch.tv/discogreg - Buy a house maybe? IDK. Or visit Hannah's? - Get an ice cream maker - Check out Be Steadwell's new song and video Sprung - Watch the USWNT games  - CALL US OR TEXT US AND TELL US YOUR OBSESSION! 774-326-0420 - Follow @Nicelyprovedben, @Hanthropology, and @TooBroadPod on Twitter - @Hannahandhercats on tiktok - Erin's Lesbian Lending Library: lesbianlendinglibrary.com - Watch Ben on twitch.tv/discogreg  - Watch Erin on twitch.tv/ernbrnog - Watch Hannah on twitch.tv/mattypizzatable 8pm tuesdays - Follow WayTooBroad on IG - Email us at waytoobroad@gmail.com - Listen to So Dreamy - www.waytoobroad.com for anything you want - www.ernben.com for anything you need - Visit Maxfun.org - Please leave us a rating/review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening!

Several weeks ago, we gathered an all-star cast of friends of the pod for a LIVE reading of “The Farm,” the thwarted L Word spinoff that never got picked up, in which Alice was sent to prison for Jenny's murder! Join Brittany Ashley, Brittani Nichols, Laura Zak, Fawzia Mirza, John Bellamy, Cerise Castle, El Sanchez, Analyssa Lopez, Drew Gregory, Erin Sullivan and Kelley Quinn on this very bad road in the podcast recording of the live reading! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUESTS @bishilarious, @analocaa, @heykq, @laurazak, @draw_gregory, @thefawz, @elsanchovilla, @drjohnboochie, @yourmajestcee, @active_senior_, @britt27ash Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein Special thanks to our broadcast producer, Karl Saint Lucy! @karlsaintlucy

It’s therapy time at the Los Angeles sheriff’s department and boi is there some interrogation going on!!! Who burned down wax? (Cue guitar riff) Who stole the negative? Who has pretty little eyes? Does Tina have parents? Bring your beloved and some poetry and we will get down to business but definitely nobody is gonna talk about who killed Jenny just in case you were wondering! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

It’s time: 608 aka “Last Word” aka the very last episode of The L Word aka the worst series finale of all time — is here. And BOI do we have some notes! Join us for over two hours of deep analysis of an episode in which we get lots of eyeball close ups, a total remodel of a classic property, an allegedly 3 hour tribute video starring Ivan’s rings, some final cut shenanigans, the constant threat of woozie, bathroom snobbery, a new haircut for Molly and so much more! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Actor, recording artist and drag queen Willam Belli joins us for Episode 607, "Last Couple Standing,” in which everybody dances and dances and dances for charity!!!! Join us as Tasha, Jamie and Alice do a fun dance and Bette and Tina do a sexy dance and then it’s time to give away money on the microphone on the stage! Also Jenny made an iPhone movie and she wants to talk about it. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Willam Belli @willam Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Well folks, we're finally here: episode 606, Lactose Intolerant. Educator, artist, writer and self-described "Professional Black Transgender Person." John Bellamy joins us for this wild ride of an episode which includes a Willy Wonka themed baby shower for a very unhappy Max, Kelly and Bette shaking it but not baking it, Tina using a phone in New York, Tasha and Alice boning while Jamie's in the shower and Jenny getting Shane a photo studio to develop the one photograph she has taken in her life!! It's really bad you guys, oompa loompa loompa-dee-do. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST John Bellamy @drjohnboochie Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Producer Shannon de Zeeuw joins us for episode 6.05 Litmus Test, in which the girls gather at the wired-for-sound Hit Club to determine if Dylan is a good person or a dirty schemer through Niki Stevens entrapment, Jenny hits the jackpot by stealing Alice’s screenplay idea, Alice and Jamie have a third wheel crush, Dylan and Helena have sex with NO MUSIC, Niki Stevens dances alone in slow-motion and so much less! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Shannon de Zeeuw @shandzee Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

It’s time for episode 6.04, Leaving Los Angeles, seemingly produced on a $35 budget. We’re joined this week by author/activist Thomas Beatie, who has the unique perspective of being the subject of the “pregnant man” story ripped from the headlines and stuffed into Max’s body under very different circumstances for Season Six! Join us as we reflect on Dylan being meh, Bette being hot, Jenny descending into bananas girlfriend behavior, time being a flat circle and Max having a not-so-great time with all of this! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Thomas Beatie @thomassecretstory10 Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Comic and tie dye enthusiast Rhea Butcher joins us for a little LMFAO-ing on Episode 603, LMFAO! This week the whole group gets some very concerning text messages regarding Shane and Jenny's sexual activities, someone has stolen THE NEGATIVE, Alice saves a life, Shane does Eric Mabius's hair, Bette tries to fire Jodi and ends up getting fired, and so much more! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Rhea Butcher @rheabutcher Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Big news: Alice is writing a treatment and Jenny is writing a treatment and Christina Tucker is joining us for this week’s journey into Shane’s car washing skills, Max’s ripped from the tabloids pregnancy, Dylan’s lady sandwich, Alice and Tasha are going to couple's therapy, Juicy fucking Fremont, Bette running or...... not running?  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Christina Tucker @C_GraceT Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

In the fourth and final installment of the historic four-part series "You Simply Must: FUN SIZE Part III," Landree forces Drew to listen to "Greens" by Be Steadwell. Also: What's For Dinner?, International Chart-Toppers, and Non-Traditional Pickles

Well friends, it’s time for the inevitable and infamous Season Six. We kick off this week with 6.01, in which Bette Porter impacts the fate of civilization with a dangerous butterfly shirt, Shane creeps around Los Angeles with all her t-shirts in a Whole Foods bag, Jenny throws a lamp, Tasha and Alice try to figure out if they have anything in common and Papi returns from the vortex to make us all liverwurst sandwiches!!! Oh and also, somebody killed Jenny? Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Join me and one of my favorite musicians and Leos on the internet Be Steadwell as we chat all things music, queerdom, and the mess that is 2020. Find Be’s music on Spotify or whoever you stream. Intro song is Thirst Trap, and my personal fave is Sage. Show Be some love on the gram and Patreon @besteadwell. Connect with me on the gram @lana_del_they and on the Patreon.com/QueeringitupwithLana

Calling all heterosexual orphan shoplifters, it’s time for a “To L and Back” holiday special in which we recap the classic controversial holiday film, “Happiest Season,” starring our very own Kristen Stewart and Dan Levy and directed by Clea Duvall. Join two unpopular Jews as we traverse territory similar to The L Word’s: the collective psychological meltdown of a group comprised almost entirely of wealthy white people! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Season Five is coming to an end and we are celebrating with not one but TWO group gatherings jam-packed with lesbian drama: Jodi's very weird experimental art show and Lez Girls' very weird wrap party! Will anyone have sex on the balustrade at Yamashiro? Will Molly throw a drink at Shane? Will Alice continue thinking-cheating with Clea the designer? Will Bette and Tina do a weird dance while Bette wears a terrible butterfly shirt? Join us as we wrap up the last good season of this strange show! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Are you gonna bleed soon? Alice sure hopes Tasha will! Furthermore, Bette and Jodi are wearing matching outfits for their all-day break-up-a-thon, Adele does a private premiere of Jenny and Niki's sex tape and subsequently takes over "Lez Girls," Dawn Denbo's snatching the Planet right out of Kit's arms, Shane's got a very large bong, Alice is gushing over Clea (special guest Melanie Lynskey)'s hot androgynous menswear inspired fashions and Kit's skulking around with a gun for some reason. Plus: a hot tip on how to poison Riese! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Get your butt onto your bicycles 'cause writer Erin Sullivan (creator of the "Who Killed Jenny Schecter" podcast and also Riese's roommate) is here to discuss Episode 510, Lifecycle! Join us as we discover that Tasha has other friends, Adele is great at brand deals, Bette is a big ol cheater, Tina can't help loving Bette it's a thing she can't help, Molly is ready for Lesbian Sex 102, NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO PLAY “I’VE NEVER” CORRECTLY and Nikki has never used a strap-on before! It's one of our favorite L Word episodes of all time so you will NOT want to miss a thing! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Erin Sullivan @sullivem @active_senior_ Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Gaby Dunn, Mal Blum, Brittani Nichols and Cerise Castle joined Carly and Riese for a LIVE RECORDING of Episode 509, aka the episode where everybody engages in sexual activities with one another! Now, in podcast form, capture our rehashing of situations including the Showdown with the She-B*tches, Lover Cindi's wig, Bette's unethical non-monogamy, kissing the wrong person in the dark, bringing ice cubes into the bedroom, elevator fantasies, Shane's inadequate camerawork, Max's budding relationship with Tom, Jenny firing a guy with an Elmo tattoo and Molly's passion for candles. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUESTS! @malbllum @gabyroad @bishilarious @yourmajestcee Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Welcome Back WoCos and Friends! In this episode of the pod, Crystal and Sariah wrap up the Anti-Police Violence Series. We cover how processing police violence and archiving them via the podcast has been a thoughtful and challenging experience. We reflect and process the lessons from our first interview with Carolyn Baker. Furthermore, we offer love letters to various forms of black media that have been bringing us love and libation in this time of change. We conclude with movement updates and visions for our liberatory future. We also give space for our name shift. We were formerly known as Womxn of Color Organizing Podcast. Originally we choose to include the “x” in Women to offer space for non-binary identities within our definition of Women. We want to make sure that our podcast name didn’t centralize cis-ness and included non-binary identities. We are evolving as movement language evolves, recently we have been discovering that this term (Womxn) has held negative connotations for some, and we instead will continue to use clear and specific language throughout our pod to name the identities we hold and invite in. We thank you for joining us and communing with us as we process, archive, and envision our shared liberatory futures. Updates on Grace’s case https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2020/07/31/free-grace-oakland-county-probation-homework-appeal-release/5560282002 Love Letter Links Woke foods: https://wokefoods.coop/earthlab/ Be Steadwell on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3u5pK1PzrhvlC0shYIJ1Tl?si=VG5zwYO3QM-AylYcyHJSLA Living Single (Hulu): https://www.hulu.com/series/living-single-df59d585-ed41-4700-a7ae-76942b6ad1dc Check out the General Baker Institute, Black and Brown Alliance, and Detroit will Breath to learn how to plug into local organizing! https://www.generalbakerinstitute.com/ https://www.metrodetroitdsa.com/bbatownhall https://www.facebook.com/detroitwillbreathe/ Get your self some WoCo-Mail! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKmka6Aem5HeEvfo4Nf8fdfc2lJjeuIxpZz5Jc2OPQvhS3HA/viewform Or Follow us on Socials Twitter and Instagram: @WoCopod Facebook: Womxn of Color Organizing Podcast You can also send us Mail: wocopod@gmail.com

This week on To L and Back, legendary Autostraddle writer and A-Camp band singer Ari joins us as Tasha goes on trial for being just another soldier in the army of love, Jodi prepares a Moroccon Feast for three days so Shane won’t have to take Molly to the theater, Nikki makes the cover of Celebrity Star Power Today as potentially being gay on the eve of the big premiere of terrible action film, Jenny hates that guy’s purple tie, Jenny cries in a fancy dress, Bette and Tina grapple with sexual tension and so much more! Come to our live recording! Join us Monday, October 5th @ 6:00 PM PST on Crowdcast! Friends of the pod, Gaby Dunn, Mal Blum, Brittani Nichols, and Cerise Castle will be joining us for a hell of a good time! RSVP link below. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tolandbacklive Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Ari Monts @alaraemonts & @stm.l.a Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

GET IN THE RING IT'S TIME FOR LESBIAN OIL WRESTLING. Carly's actual wife, legendary actress and photographer Robin Roemer joins us as we get greased up and Molly Kroll is loving it!!! This week on The L Word, Tasha walks up and down the same hallway for a week, Alice delivers a killer blind item in hopes of snagging a big TV job, Jenny and Niki are honestly just very extra, Jodi talks about sex to her ex, Molly is convinced that Shane wants to bang her and listen we're all here for the oil wrestling right, let's do it! Special thanks to this episode's sponsor, AURate. For 15% off your first Aurate purchase, go to AurateNewYork.com/tolandback and use promo code tolandback. Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Robin Roemer @robinshoots Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

I hope you set your alarm for 4:30 AM like Adele because LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION “Lez Girls” starts shooting first thing tomorrow and we’ve got Emmy nominated writer/producer of “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” Lauren Ashley Smith, here in the studio to discuss the stir fry Bette left on the stove to go have sex with Tina, Jenny’s unprofessionalism, Dawn Denbo’s ongoing reign of terror, Adele’s mall madness makeover, Jodi’s robe, Phyllis’ sexy pool party, hot tea as foreplay and why any of these people still have jobs. Fun will be had by all!!! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Lauren Ashley Smith @mslas Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Get your gay brownies ready we’re going to the cast party with special guest, comedic/actor and two-time Survivor contestant Zeke Smith!!! This week, the gals meet their Lez Girls counterparts at a wild party, Alice goes viral by outing a basketball player, Shane gets her boots on Dawn Denbo’s couch and her hands inside Dawn Denbo’s girlfriend, Max questions the veracity of Adele’s traveling salesman stories and we all dance on the table!  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Zeke Smith @szekerchief Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

L.A’s hottest new club is SHEBAR. It has everything: Riese, Carly, special guest Shelli Nicole, Dawn Denbo, her lover Cindi and only the best champagne in the VIP rooms! Also included: Jodi wanting to dance and Bette wanting to fight, Max’s podcast is a blog now, Tina can’t keep up with Brenda, Alice and Tasha are going to a secret Hollywood closet party, Jenny doesn’t want to cast Niki in her film because she doesn’t look like she’s read a book recently, Adele coming in hot with the scheming and Shane playing video games aggressively while picturing everybody naked.  Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Follow our SPECIAL GUEST Shelli Nicole @ayoshelli Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

Let's go lesbians! Get your gaydar guns, feather your hair and pick up the phone, Shane hasn't had sex for three entire days and WOW her mind is clean as a whistle, so. Meanwhile, Jodi and Bette are heading to Big Bear for Bette to read a novel at a picnic table while everybody plays football and has morning mojitos! Tasha gets an info packet on her homosexual behavior, Tina goes on a date with a heart surgeon who collects art, Max loves his new video camera, and we're gonna find out who's on top and who's on bottom now. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

You know that Shane, never the bride, always f*cking the bridesmaids! This week on The L Word everything gets very fun, very fast. We've got imaginary sex matchups between Bette and Helena! We've got Jenny's garbage bag dress! We've got drunk misanthropic Tina! We meet Adele, who has read Some of Her Parts ten thousand times! Also, Tom has a little crush on Max, Tina is obsessed with Bette, and Tasha and Alice have a middling double date and is Jodi's place too funky for Bette? Only one way to find out!!  Read a full transcript of this episode on Autostraddle.com! And please support us at autostraddle.biz Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @tolandback Follow Riese everywhere at @autowin and her esteemed website @autostraddle. Join our membership program, A+, to ensure our site lasts as long as this show did!  Follow Carly Usdin everywhere @carlytron Theme song: Be Steadwell @besteadwell Logo: Carra Sykes @carrasykes Episode Produced, Mixed, Edited: Lauren Klein @laurentaylorklein

In the 16th episode of The Boy Who Hasn't Lived, CJ and Arlie talk about chapters 12-14 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. CJ's theories are on overdrive this month - they think Lupin might be Hermione and/or Sirius Black; and they're still very suspicious about Crookshanks the cat... who also might be Sirius Black? Other than that, it's mostly just us being annoyed with Harry's recklessness.  If you like the song we featured by Be Steadwell, it's called 'sage (witch two)' and you can find that and lots of other beautiful music at www.besteadwell.com.  * * * * * The Boy Who Hasn't Lived is a podcast about one friend forcing the other to read the entire Harry Potter book series for the first time.  Join your hosts CJ and Arlie, as CJ finally reads Harry Potter, and Arlie reads it for approximately the 1 millionth time. If you want to read along with CJ, in the next episode we will have read chapters 15-17 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. To find out more about The Boy Who Hasn't Lived, visit www.theboywhohasntlived.com. You can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram - we're @CJandArlie on both.