Some movies are so powerful, you don’t even have to see them. It’s enough to steal a furtive glance at two older girls with pierced tongues on a DVD cover at your local Blockbuster.
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.
It’s noteworthy that Bad Things features two relationships with trans people, including a relationship between a cis woman and a trans woman. More noteworthy is how authentic their various experiences feel.
This task has sent me down a strange spiral of doubling and fractured memory underscored by a homoerotic hum MUCH LIKE THE MOVIE ITSELF.
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.
Prime Video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s beloved book is a sweet and sexy delight.
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.
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,
You’re pretty and pink, you’re staring into the abyss, you’re cognitive dissonance, you’re Barbie!
Get ready to have your heart warmed by Season 2 of Heartstopper and “Red, White and Royal Blue” and we’ve also got a new Harlan Coben thriller teeming with queers, a gay revelation on the final season of “Breeders” and so much more!
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.
I really love a road trip comedy, especially one with rock solid storytelling.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’d prefer no lesbians in a movie to lesbians who only exist as stereotypes.
The initial lineup was released today and it looks to be another strong year with a mix of celebrated titles from previous festivals and new premieres.
There are plenty of movies with characters who have scars, but very few that don’t use them for either horror or inspiration.
It’s hard to put yourself out there, especially when you’re talking about something that means a lot to you. But the only reason Chasing Chasing Amy works as a documentary is because Sav Rodgers chose to make himself a part of the film.
Straightness in Barbieland is cringe.
In Alice Maio Mackay’s T Blockers, transphobia is spreading like a contagion. Literally.
With each passing scene, Barbie reveals its endgame a little more; beneath all the laughs at the expense of men and women is the sad truth that this brand of essentialism itself, of separating Barbies from Kens, of emphasizing their differences, is the thing that damages us the most.
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!