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.
“Red, White & Royal Blue” Is a Perfect Gay Rom-Com (With Bonus Rachel Maddow and Sarah Shahi)
Prime Video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s beloved book is a sweet and sexy delight.
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!
August 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
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!
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.
Egghead & Twinkie Has Everything You Want in a Feel-Good Comedy, It Just Happens To Be About Teenagers
I really love a road trip comedy, especially one with rock solid storytelling.
The Mattachine Family Tells The Story Of A Very Specific Type Of Family
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I’d prefer no lesbians in a movie to lesbians who only exist as stereotypes.
Drag Queens, Lesbian Conductors, and Elliot Page: 5 Queer Films Playing at TIFF 2023
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.
“Silver Haze” Finds Devastation and Beauty in a New Kind of Lesbian Romance
There are plenty of movies with characters who have scars, but very few that don’t use them for either horror or inspiration.
‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Is Not the Fluffy Love Letter to the Problematic Film You’d Expect
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.
Barbie Is Right: Heterosexuality Is Goofy
Straightness in Barbieland is cringe.
“T Blockers” Reveals the B-Movie Horrors of Being a Trans Teen Today
In Alice Maio Mackay’s T Blockers, transphobia is spreading like a contagion. Literally.
On Barbie and Greta Gerwig’s Colorful, Complicated Portrait of Humanity
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.
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!
“Your Love” Puts Queer South Asian Elders Front and Center in a Beautiful Way
Theirs is a tenderness — that all-consuming, heady obsession with just being near each other, even if the only way you can convey your love is through touching foreheads.
“The Fabulous Ones” and “Asog” Tell Trans Stories with Fact and Faction
What I’ll remember most about these films is the quiet, human moments. The laughter. The grief.
“My Animal” Is a Muddled Queer Werewolf Tale Elevated By Its Leads
Even though the characters are both ostensibly cis queer women, it’s still thrilling to have two nonbinary actors on-screen together — especially ones of this caliber.
Here’s What LGBTQ+ Actors Are Saying About the Strike
The conversations happening with this strike about the brokenness of streaming are inseparable from the ongoing “cancel your gays” conversation. The practice of streaming giants removing less-popular series from their platforms to avoid paying residuals especially hurts LGBTQ+ and actors of color, as it’s queer shows and shows with predominantly POC casts that are often on that notorious chopping block.