People should be paying attention, this isn't normal.

Look at this chart co-creator Will Graham shared about the series’ ratings just this week:įascinating to see #ALeagueOfTheirOwn having highest week of online engagement 7 months after release, with no new push from It's beautiful to see new people who continue to find the show. It also doesn’t make a lick of fiscal sense. (There’s no place like home, you know?) A League of Their Own was a triumph of actually diverse - not just the buzzword - queer storytelling, highlighting Black women, Latine women, fat women, and trans and gender nonconforming characters. Sometimes stories are the only safe place we have to land. We are at a boiling point, in the United States, with anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment, and not only do we know for a fact that positive representations of LGBTQ+ people open real-life hearts and minds, we also know what a huge difference nuanced, relatable stories about LGBTQ+ people mean to the community itself.

Over the last several years, we’ve watched networks and streamers cut down gay show after gay show, with impotent excuses, but this is, by far, the most egregious cancellation. I don’t mind telling you that this news has broken the hearts of our entire team here at Autostraddle. Lesley Goldberg broke the story at The Hollywood Reporter this afternoon, noting that the announcement follows “months of renegotiations with Sony to lower the show’s licensing fee and after the cast had to sign new deals given the order is for half the episodes that were featured in season one.” Well, a whisper of the news we’ve all been waiting for finally arrived today - and it’s not great, bob: Amazon Prime Video has renewed A League of Their Own… for a paltry four final episodes. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.

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