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CAUTION: MAJOR SPOILERS ABOUT SEASON TWO OF GLOW TO FOLLOW. In the year 2018, TV is proving to be one of our most valuable weapons for warding off despair, and Netflix’s GLOW might just be the highest-caliber gun in our collective arsenal. It’s got a a diverse ensemble of women, jokes galore, heart aplenty, montages in abundance,…
Last year, your favorite anxious autistic asshole skulked around Clexacon like a cat in a rocking chair factory. This year, it was once more unto the breach. Did she succeed? Did she make friends? Did she throw up all over the hotel? Time and this review will tell! Oh my god. The lines. Lines everywhere.…
The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) is a perfect beach read. I write this knowing that the term “beach read” carries with it a faint whiff of disapprobation and unseriousness, and you could say the same thing about the topics TSOJP concerns itself with: teens, queerness, romantic comedy, fashion,…
The year 2018 can be best described by the opening voiceover to Mad Max: Fury Road: “As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy: me, or everyone else.” The panic of 2017 has given way to a far more insidious exhaustion,…
As every queer woman who has ever logged on to Netflix knows, lesbians are rich in tragedy. The typical story arc for women who love women in film and television goes something like this: Girl painfully comes to terms with feelings for other girl. The exploration of these feelings costs girl her job/children/parental approval, and…
On November 22, Netflix will unleash its latest piece of original programming onto our eager minds: a six-part Western called Godless. The series concerns the fate of a town where all the men died in a tragic mining/oil drilling/underground rave accident. THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR TRUSTING A WOODEN ELEVATOR, FRANKLY. This awful event leaves the…
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: It has come to the attention of this committee (the Queer Entertainment and Enlightenment Fellowship) that you have not yet read the classic lesbian vampire novel The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez. We must request that you take immediate action to rectify this situation, and then discuss it with us…
As someone who has spent her adult life as a very visible queer women, with all the awesome ups and disheartening downs that implies, becoming a parent has been disorienting. For years I’ve been used to walking down the street and hearing variations on “I can tell that you are Sapphically inclined, and I either…
The 2004 British drama My Summer of Love is the most tragically underappreciated movie in the queer film canon. Despite gorgeous cinematography and outstanding performances by its leads (including a young Emily Blunt), MSoL is generally left out of our “oh but have you seen” conversations. There are two factors to blame for this oversight.…