Here’s a mid-week Pop Culture Fix for you, my friends. Stay hydrated out there.
+ Well. Marvel’s back on their bullshit. Ha! JK! They never got off their bullshit in the first place! Despite all the conversations and hints and winks and promises, Valkyrie does not have a girlfriend in the new Thor, only a passing remark about a dead girlfriend. BOOOOOO!!!!
+ Queer as Folk stars on how the show is different from other LGBTQ+ content.
+ Emma Corrin on fluidity, fun, and dressing up to stand out.
+ Jasmin Savoy’s new music video for “goddammit” is, according to Valerie Anne, your chance to see “Taissa from Yellowjackets and Fatin from The Wilds make out!” With a super special guest appearance from Javicia Batwoman Leslie!
+ Tara Raani has joined season five of grown-ish as “a first-generation Muslim-American. She is a sophomore, type A overachiever with a lot of swagger. Zaara is queer and open with her sexuality.”
+ Hayley Kiyoko recreates Lea DeLaria’s iconic Out magazine cover.
+ A little more teasing about Issa Rae’s Rap Sh!t.
+ Paramount+ has scrapped Why Women Kill.
+ Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi are on the cover of on the cover of #NBA2K23’s WNBA Edition, even though Diana Taurasi is playing like trash this season, la la la!
+ Kim Cattrall has joined Netflix’s new queer drama, Glamorous.
+ Another Leo Award win for Ali Liebert!
Huge congrats to @JeffreyCBallard and @AliLiebert for winning both guest star actor @leoawards tonight. Proud of a five year @SYFYVanHelsing legacy of providing great actors fun roles to sink their teeth into (pun intended). #leoawards2022 #VanHelsing
— Jonathan Lloyd Walker (@J_L_Walker) July 6, 2022
That music video!!!
i wish Deadline had paused . . . “a first-generation Muslim-American” is sloppy and that sloppiness is dangerous right now. . . being a Muslim is holding a faith, and American is a nationality. One does not immigrate from Islam to America. Islam is a religion that is as American as Judeaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Taoism, and infinite more, and non-religious statuses like agnostic or atheist; Islam is not a nationality. I know everyone at Autostraddle knows this, just wanna say it out loud.
all they needed to do was leave out the dash – which would describe a person who is first-generation, Muslim, and American all at once.
After the somewhat boring queer representation in Eternals and Multiverse of Madness killing America’s mothers, I expected Marvel (Disney in damage control mode?) would mess up again.