Welcome back to your weekly Pop Culture Fix, with an extra special shout-out to Natalie who’s keeping Autostraddle running while we’re all off at A-Camp!
+ Nahnatchka Khan’s new Netflix rom-com, Always Be My Maybe, features Michelle Buteau as a married lesbian, did you know? Valerie Anne told me so, so that’s how I know. Look for a full review when we get back from camp! (Here’s an excellent piece from The Atlantic: “The Subtle Subversions of Always Be My Maybe.”)
+ Batwoman’s Ruby Rose on defying naysayers and how being a role model saved her life
+ The L Word: Generation Q cast will appear at Pride events in NYC and LA
+ Variety‘s launched their annual Actors on Actors series that brings together some of your favorite TV actors to talk to each other about their shows. A few of the interviews you can look forward to:
Start with Billy Porter and Rachel Brosnahan on Why Representation Matters on TV.
Billy Porter opens up about the responses he gets from “the little black sissy boys, the little black queen” about @PoseOnFX: “Representation does matter. To have somebody to see and go, ‘Maybe I’ll be alright’” https://t.co/SsFTwv3BlF pic.twitter.com/NbRa5jzqTZ
— Variety (@Variety) June 4, 2019
+ Wanda Sykes chatted with the Hollywood Reporter about her new stand-up special, Not Normal
+ Tig Notaro launches a talk show with Funny or Die
+ King Princess on identifying as a lesbian
+ Natalie included this in yesterday’s Also.Also.Also., but I just wanted to make sure you saw it because I love it so much and you’ll love it so much too. Beloved, prolific, longtime TV critics Emily Vanderwerf — now of Vox, formerly of the A.V. Club — came out as trans yesterday.
+ LOL, what! Fact-checking Booksmart: Could a lesbian really confuse those two holes?
+ This is a Sun I’m not linking to because the Sun is garbage but I just want you to read this headline from yesterday: Gentleman Jack viewers in hysterics as Suranne Jones’ character struggles to get through Ann Walker’s skirt for lesbian romp!
+ The Babadook is getting a Pride-themed blu-ray release.
+ Here’s your GLOW season three first look!
Since Cannes festival I’m on fire just as the Lady in the portrait. Can’t wait!
About that Slate piece, I think that needs to be a “Friday Open Thread” or the subject of Riese’s next poll because I was wondering the same thing after watching that movie.
Well, this one time someone started eating my ass while we were taking a dimly-lit bath and I wasn’t sure if she knew she was in ass territory, because, ya know, that doesn’t seem like the first place one would go to on a trip down south? Anyway I just rolled with it and it felt nice.
That Billy Porter and Rachel Brosnahan interview is very relevant.
I’m here to highly recommend as much as possible without literally strong-arming everyone into cinemas when the time comes, to see Portrait of a Lady on Fire when it comes out. I saw it a week ago and am still thinking about it; it’s quiet, heartbreaking, stunningly beautiful, very deep, multiple layers of meta, period yet very modern. I know we all loved Carol and the Favourite but this film has leaped above them to the top of my personal ranking list. cannot possibly rave enough.