Pop Culture Fix: Amber Benson Creates a New Spike-Centric Buffy Story for Audible

Here’s your Monday Pop Culture Fix, my friends! I hope your day is as wonderful as you are!

+ Buffy cast set to reunite on Audible for a new Spike-centric tale set 20 years after the finale. The story was written by Amber Benson, directed by Amber Benson, and will also star Amber Benson!

+ Suranne Jones’ Vigil has sold to Peacock for a second season.

+ Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween has announced its spooky October line-up.

+ Lorraine Hansberry’s queer archive.

+ Exploring sexual politics in Park Chan-wook film The Handmaiden.

+ Billboard’s Queer Jams of the Week includes new music from Demi Lovato, K.Flay, Vagabon, and more.

+ Horror film director Mariama Diallo on her latest project The Other Black Girl. (Nic’s got a full review coming at you Thursday!)

+ Julia Fox designs fashion competition series for NBCUniversal from Queer Eye producer.

+ Sophie Dupuis wasn’t ready to call herself queer — but making her film Solo changed everything.

+ TIME100 Next List is full of queer and nonbinary icons.

+ See the full line-up of films for this year’s NewFest in NYC.

+ 7 horror movies that aren’t too scary for wimpy queers. (It’s me, hi, I’m the wimpy queer, it’s me.)

+ Barbie is officially more financially powerful than The Avengers.

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Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her wife, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She's a member of the Television Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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4 Comments

  1. I read The Other Black Girl and thought it was really good! Excitedly looking forward to Nic’s review of the movie!

  4. Uhh… read that Inside the Magic article you posted and you’ll see that it’s not actually suggesting that bisexual Mirabel is a possibility.

    Inside the Magic is a pseudo-fake site known to publish clickbait Disney headlines in an almost Fox News-like manner to grab attention and then later reveal that it was all hyperbole (see: “Beloved Disneyland Attraction CLOSING” when a snack stand is being refurbished for two weeks, or “SELENA GOMEZ CANCELLED” when an episode of her podcast featuring a Disney star was simply cancelled due to the star’s unavailability). Its comment section is also a noted hotbed of unmoderated homophobic and transphobic vitriol, so there’s that too.

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