Valerie Anne

1 day ago | autostraddle.com | Valerie Anne

Lauren Chan says her entire career is based around inclusion and representation, because she’s a plus-size, queer, Asian model. This career — which has won her Canadian fashion awards and a spot on Marie Claire’s 2023 Power List — has led her to be the first out lesbian (and she thinks possibly the first Chinese person) to have a solo cover in Sports Illustrated’s famous swimsuit issue.

4 days ago | autostraddle.com | Valerie Anne

This recap will have spoilers for Season 2, Episode 5 of The Last of Us, “Feel Her Love”Hello and welcome to this The Last of Us recap, in which Nic and I (Valerie Anne) discuss the most recent episode through a queer, nerdy lens as lovers of both the original games and television in general.

1 week ago | autostraddle.com | Valerie Anne

If you thought that just because I write a weekly recap of The Last of Us with Nic means I don’t have anything more to say about it, you’d be mistaken. FOR EXAMPLE, this week, Isabela Merced did an interview where she talked about the love scene between Ellie and Dina, and she said it felt as tender as it looked to us as an audience. She said, “Bella and I were just so comfortable with each other.

1 week ago | autostraddle.com | Valerie Anne

This recap will have spoilers for Season 2, Episode 4 of The Last of Us, “Day One”Welcome to this recap of The Last of Us where Nic and I (Valerie Anne) talk about our favorite post-apocalyptic queer drama! Blah blah blah, proper name, place name, backstory stuff, don’t spoil the show by talking about things that happen later in the game, okay LET’S GET RIGHT INTO THIS VERY GAY EPISODE. We open with a flashback from eleven years ago — some FEDRA agents and a little political lore.

2 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Valerie Anne

Technically Airyn De Niro has been out for a while and started hormone therapy back in November, but she’s here now with Them to tell her own story without the speculation of paparazzi-fueled sites like Daily Mail trying (and failing) to do it for her. Last month, paparazzi caught snaps of Airyn while she was visiting her father and went wild with headlines and speculations.