Style Thief: How to Dress Like Weird Barbie, the Most Lesbian of Barbies
How much pink is too much pink for one outfit, you may ask? Infinity.
We Need More Sex Scenes
I want a Hollywood of intimacy coordinators and queerness and open sexuality — not exploitation, abuse, and secrecy.
Having Some Film Festival FOMO? Here Are Six Queer Movies You Can Stream Right Now
My favorite film from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival is now streaming on Hulu! And my second favorite is streaming on Max!
TIFF 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
This year, I saw 38 features and, once again, most of my favorites were independent or not in English. There’s a vast world of cinema beyond Hollywood’s broken system!
Bottoms Characters Ranked by Whether or Not They’d Be Bottoms
The official Bottoms pyramid.
Love ’90s Movies? Prove It By Identifying 40 of 50 of These 90s Girl Movies
Do you love ’90s movies and for any reason at all tend to prefer 90s movies with women and girls at the center of the story? Prove it!
Quiz: Which Bottoms Character Are You?
Start a gay fight club, and I’ll tell you which Bottoms character you are.
Style Thief: The Cute Tomboy Grandpa Style of Hazel from “Bottoms”
Do you want to be Hazel or do you want to date Hazel? The only way to find out is to dress exactly like Hazel from “Bottoms” in your everyday life or as a Halloween costume.
Style Thief: Dress Like Josie and PJ From “Bottoms”
It’s your turn to look like our favorite untalented gays and Little Dutch Boys.
Representation Matters but I Didn’t Expect Bottoms To Take It So Far for Me
On discovering a doppelgänger in an unlikely place.
I Asked a Top About “Bottoms”
In which Kristen Arnett answers important questions, such as: Who were the biggest bottoms in Bottoms?
Rejected Headlines for My “Bottoms” Review
Bottoms Understands What Teen Lesbians Desire: Being Punched By Girls in the Face
Stunt Queens: The History and Cultural Significance of the “Queerleader” in Film and Television
In honor of Bottoms, here are top queer cheerleader moments from film/TV.
Watchlist: “House of Psychotic Women” Pushed Me Out of My Horror Comfort Zone
Watchlist is a new series where I invite you to sample the hidden treasures of my personal viewing projects.
Stewart Thorndike on “Bad Things,” Motherhood, and Her Childhood Nightmares
“The world is a frightening, frightening place, so I don’t really understand why every film isn’t a horror film.”
A Queer Syllabus for the Writers and Actors Strike
As Hot Strike Summer rapidly turns into Hot Strike Fall — I’ve become deeply interested in the trend where the forefront of labor movements are vocally and visibly, well, gay as hell.
How Many Times Did I See Black Swan in Theaters While Closeted? An Investigation
This task has sent me down a strange spiral of doubling and fractured memory underscored by a homoerotic hum MUCH LIKE THE MOVIE ITSELF.
After We Watched Barbie
Transitioning to a man in a predominately white world makes me resentful. Genders are floating worlds, and I am doing gender somewhere I do not belong.
In the Symbolic World of the Deeply Gendered Barbieland, Allan Is Nonbinary
Allan’s discomfort creates an identification point for viewers who are also uncomfortable identifying with either the Barbies or the Kens, a third option in an otherwise binary Barbieland.
Can You Feel the Kenergy?
There’s a specific kind of trans masc quality to the way that Ken dresses and takes up space if I’m being honest. That’s the siren call, the Kenergy,