Results for: dead to me
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“Birds of Prey” Is the Chaotic Sparkly Queer Misandrist Comic Book Movie of My Dreams
With two on-screen queer women characters, “Birds of Prey” is an irate, sparkle laden, middle finger in the air to a society that otherwise cowers to the angry whims of men. Who the hell wouldn’t sign up for that?
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“2 in the Bush” Is a Funny, Warm, Daring Love Story
Untimely deaths, lesbian bed death, a creepy heterosexual polyamorous couple; you won’t find it here. Instead, the film takes the approach of exploring the many different loves we have in our lives.
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Observations on Heaven from Dante’s Paradiso That Also Apply to These Stills of Linda Hamilton
In a literary and historicist sense, Dante’s Divine Comedy was a mulit-volume narrative poem that advanced some notable theological suppositions about the afterlife; in another, more honest sense, though, it’s about what a fucking unreal silver fox Linda Hamilton is.
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“Frozen 2” Review: Elsa Gets Mommy Issues Instead of a Girlfriend
If Disney wasn’t ready to explicitly represent a fifth of its young audience, they could’ve at least given Elsa a gal pal. I don’t need to see Elsa make out with the mysterious voice calling her to the next chapter of queer life, but lord did it have to be her mother?
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Monsters & Mommis: “Memento Mori” Asks Us to Remember the Dead
This is a ghost story. This is a horror movie. This is two decades of queer lives free to live.
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Lena Waithe’s “Queen & Slim” Left Me Still Hungry for Black Queer Freedom
“For a work touted as blackness for Black people, Queen & Slim ultimately offers not hope or a way forward, but more images of beautiful Black corpses added to the growing canon of Black death for consumption. And I’m simply not able to keep bearing witness.”
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Monsters & Mommis: “Good Manners” Is a Tribute to Queer Motherhood
If the idea of having children as queer women is a fraught and complicated topic, Good Manners opens itself up to the mess.
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Oscars 2020: Two Lesbians Discuss the Very White, Very Straight, Very Male 92nd Academy Awards
“Okay so Christian Bale plays… Mr. Ferrari. And Matt Damon plays… Henry Ford?”
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“To L and Back” Podcast Holiday Special: Two Jews Review a Lesbian Christmas Movie
Riese: I would text Riley and be like “you up?”
Carly: Are you still at the gay bar…? Because?
Riese: I would come back incensed with rage and ready to make a mistake.
Carly: Ready to ruin my relationship.
Riese: Yes. I would be full of the spirit of ruin and ready to share it.
Carly: Which is not Christmas spirit, but it is kind of related. -
Thirsty Classics: “Rebecca” Is Hot Even in Death
It’s rarely suggested that Rebecca was in love with Danvers too. But she was. That’s what I’m suggesting.
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10 Low-Key Horror Movies to Watch With Your Sensitive Butch Date
It’s officially October, which means it’s time to break out the horror movies. Here are a few suggestions to win over your summer crush that will be gone by spring.
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Glamorous Degradation: On Sex Workers and Authenticity in Cinema
When I watch these movies, I find myself writing fan fictions in my head: What details would I change, to make this piece of art truly for me, and for the community that I love? Maybe it’s simply that the sex workers on film would just be a lot more… regular.
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30 Days of Carol: Day One — Ranking My Best Carol Posts
A full month of Carol starting today.
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Thirsty Classics: “Persona” Is Best Watched as a Closeted Trans Teen
This is not a lesbian film. It is merely a film starring two women bursting with sexuality. And when I was 14 it was my favorite film of all time.
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Olivia Wilde Is Bisexual in 2012’s Hilariously Smart “Butter,” You Deserve This
Olivia Wilde is a bisexual sex worker in this political satire that also stars a pint sized Yara Shahidi! And they sculpt artwork out of butter? For some reason? I have your weekend Netflix plans all set.
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Thirsty Classics: “The Uninvited” Has Subtext! Lesbian Subtext!
“For those keeping score, this movie with no lesbians now has four lesbians. Two living, two dead. And now enters the fifth non-lesbian lesbian, the dykiest of the them all: Miss Holloway.”
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Monsters & Mommis: Three Trips to Hill House
As The Haunting of Hill House has found new life across decades, the queerness has become more explicit yet less important to the overall work.
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I Watched Lesbian Movie “Liz in September” and You’ve Gotta Be Kidding Me
In which I hope this is actually just an hour and half long PSA for heatstroke.
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20 Movies About Friendship and Misandry For When You Want to Burn it All Down
Just some gal pals who righteously and gleefully killed their predators, who ruined powerful men’s lives and careers.
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“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Is the Mommiest Movie of the Summer
The Mamma Mia! Cinematic Universe is the new Marvel Cinematic Universe—spread the word.