I have a pattern of hyperfixating on certain queens. Maybe it’s a talent crush, maybe it’s a crush crush, maybe a talent crush IS a crush crush because what’s more…
Tanya wasn’t the kind of queer to make the first move, generally speaking, but that night was different. Marianne was different. She seemed more than interested in what Tanya had…
In Viola Davis’ hands, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” becomes a complex portrait of a queer Black woman hurricane whose footprints loom large over the last 100 years.
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