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,
Barbie-ology: Your “Barbie” Character, According to Your Zodiac Sign
You’re pretty and pink, you’re staring into the abyss, you’re cognitive dissonance, you’re Barbie!
Marxist Barbie Discourse and the Weird Wide Web of Queer Video Essays
So what is there to do now that you’ve seen Barbie twice? I will be watching as many long, overly elaborate, documentary-style YouTube video essays about the subject as I possibly can.
A Queer Syllabus for Barbiecore
Overlapping topics we’re going to discuss include the history of glitter, queer meanings of femme and femme theory, Barbie Capitalism, why gays love Magic Earring Ken, pink vs pynk, and so much more!
Think You’re a Queer Cinephile? Prove It by Identifying All 50 of These Sapphic Films
Test your Sapphic movie knowledge!
Revisiting Iconic Pride Scenes From Film and Television
It turns out…there aren’t that many? Where is the 200 Cigarettes-style Pride comedy we deserve?!
Quiz: Which Early ’00s Movie Made You Gay?
In the early 2000s, the silver screen was awash in groups of ostensibly straight girls in low-rise pants fighting crime, dancing on the bar and writing burn books! Along the way, some of them turned you into the brave gay person you are today!!! Which film was it?
Every Character From Grease and Grease 2, Ranked by Lesbianism
In honor of this week’s release of “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” we are ranking every character from Grease and Grease 2 by lesbianism.
Oscars 2023: Two Queers Discuss the Pretty Gay 95th Academy Awards
“Does the Academy just love war? They want to GET INTO THE TRENCHES. Well not me. I prefer not to trench. Unless it is Lydia Tár’s trench coat.”
Sight & Sound: Ten Favorite Films from Cheryl Dunye, Desiree Akhavan, and Other Queer Faves
The following are the favorite films from all the out queer and trans directors who submitted lists to Sight & Sound — with some notes on what these lists reveal about the artists’ own work.
Annette Haywood-Carter on “Foxfire,” Filmmaking, and Being a Queer Woman in Hollywood
After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.
The State of Queer and Trans Film After the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
“In the past few years, we’ve been seeing queer people in film outside of trauma and pain. We’re seeing folks who can be terrible, romantic, sweet, murderous — and who also just happen to be queer.”
Sundance 2023: A Queer Festival Recap
Film festivals are one of the primary places that buzz begins. It’s why it’s so important that the first responses to films out of festivals aren’t solely those of cis straight white men working for major publications.
Dykes, Camera, Action: We’re Going to Sundance!
Over the past few years, Autostraddle has had a presence at some of the biggest film festivals in the world. We’ve gone to TIFF, Tribeca, The Black Femme Supremecy Film Festival, and of course Sundance. This year we’re returning to Sundance — with not one, but two writers!
August Winter on “Women Talking” and Navigating the Industry as a Nonbinary Actor
“I think it just shows that as a culture we remain ignorant to these nuances. For me it comes down to people’s fascination with grouping things into familiarity instead of finding new ways of saying something.”
Slow Takes: We Come to This Place for Magic
A movie theatre was the first reason I left my apartment after the 2016 election.
Chase Joynt on “Framing Agnes,” Collaboration, and Finding New Ways to Tell Trans Stories
“What an extraordinary middle finger to the whole apparatus! And I include myself in that.”
An Introduction to Chantal Akerman and “Jeanne Dielman”
Sight and Sound, the British film magazine that has long been the most agreed upon arbiter of the film canon (at least in the English speaking world), has named Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles the greatest film of all time.