Results for: queer parenting
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Barbie Is Right: Heterosexuality Is Goofy
Straightness in Barbieland is cringe.
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“Tahara” Is a Queer Teen Comedy with Death and Depth
This is exactly what I want from contemporary low-budget queer filmmaking.
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SXSW 2023: “Bloody Hell” Is A Dope Teen Traumedy When It’s Not Making Nonbinary Folks Disposable
I know you’re going through it but could you not use me along the way?
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A Trans Guy Watches ‘She’s the Man’ for the First Time
I avoided the 2006 teen comedy She’s the Man for almost two decades. Now it was finally time to watch it.
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Nickelodeon’s “Monster High 2” Celebrates Trans Joy With a Nonbinary Frankenstein’s Monster
These little monsters are breaking generational curses and making their own way in the world.
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“The Hours” Welcomed Me Into a Lineage of Sapphic Suffering
I watch The Hours whenever I’m sad.
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“Going to Mars” Is the Queer Black Women’s Triumph That Nikki Giovanni Deserves
Nikki Giovanni so loves Black women that she never waivers that our strength can only be matched by the stars themselves.
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Petite Maman Review: Céline Sciamma’s Latest Masterpiece Helps Us Process Our Mommy (and Daddy) Issues
This is a movie that aims to capture the perspective of children without forgetting the emotional intelligence so many of them carry.
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Billy Porter’s “Anything’s Possible” Empowers Trans Black Girls to Chase Happiness
I’m looking forward to a media future where trans girls in love aren’t rare. Anything’s Possible isn’t perfect, but it’s a great start.
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Billy Eichner’s Gay Rom-Com “Bros” Isn’t Revolutionary But It Is Hilarious
Straight rom-coms aren’t expected to properly evoke Marsha P. Johnson and gay romcoms shouldn’t have to either — of course, it helps that straight romcoms don’t try.
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“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossal Sincerity
This movie is super gay. And I’m not just talking about that woozy feeling you get watching Michelle Yeoh fight.
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“Moonshot” Review: I Wish I Had Just Rewatched Zenon
Sunita Deshpande and Cameron Esposito play a queer couple in space, but this mostly straight rom-com is too terrestrial to stand out.
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Ruby Rose’s “1Up” Is a New Contender For Worst Movie Ever Made
I want to love all girl movies, all nerd movies, all gay movies — but yodeling Yoshi, this thing is nearly unwatchable.
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Pixar’s “Lightyear” Is So Much Queerer Than Just That Hyper-Scrutinized Lesbian Kiss
Alisha’s queerness isn’t just some sidelined reference. The whole plot of Lightyear revolves around Buzz comparing his life to that of his queer, Black best friend and realizing that family and community is what he truly desires.
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Maya Hawke’s Gay Chaos Makes “Do Revenge” a Twisted Romp
A Sarah Michelle Gellar cameo, references to all the 90s teen classics, and throwback needledrops make for a nostalgic experience, but “Do Revenge” doesn’t quite pull off iconic status itself.
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“M3gan” Invites Us to Hang Out for a While, or Forever, NBD
What we’ve got to remember is that girls from about age ten to about eighteen are simply the most terrifying beings to walk the planet.
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“Anaïs in Love” Is A Queer Celebration of Chaos
The film is similar to the Old Hollywood screwball comedies. It celebrates a queer woman by embracing her chaos in a world built on structure.
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“They/Them” Review: Peacock’s New Queer Slasher Is Too Timid for Its Talented Cast
For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.
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Lifetime’s “Under the Christmas Tree” Is the Holigay Rom-Com You’ve Been Waiting For
Elise Bauman and Tattiawna Jones are charming as heck in this very sweet, very low stakes romantic comedy that takes place in a town that might as well be the North Pole.
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Lily Tomlin’s “Grandma” Is as Angry as We Are About Anti-Abortion Assholes
I rewatched Grandma the day after Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion was published and I marveled, once again, at how prescient Lily Tomlin’s best roles are.