Happy Winter Solstice/Yule Pop Culture Fix! 

+ How Viola Davis leaned into Ma Rainey’s queer desire in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

“In researching Ma Rainey, she was unapologetic about her sexuality. This is a woman who went to orgies. She was arrested at an orgy. I felt like Ma always had a woman with her. A lot of the women who dance with her were her women. She had orgies with them. That was her world. I didn’t want to sweep it under the rug.”

+ Batwoman’s season two premiere photos are here!

+ Emily VanDerWerff wonders: What is television, anyway?

+ Aubrey Plaza isn’t “a total psychopath,” you know.

+ The Wilds has been renewed for a second season.

+ In the queer Christmas movie arena, predictability still outshines realness.

+ The Laverne Cox Show is coming to Shondaland Audio.

+ Elliot Page posted his first public message since coming out.

+ There’s a lesbian couple in OWN’s First Christmas.

+ Below Deck‘s Izzy Wouters comes out as a lesbian.

+ There’s no word yet on a new season of The Bold Type, but Aisha Dee has signed on for a new Australian horror satire.

+ DANGIT!

+ Happy Holigays from Motherland: Fort Salem‘s queers!

+ Portia de Rossi will lead Better Off Ted‘s cast reunion.

+ Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad has launched a new mentorship lab.

+ All My Children is getting a primetime reboot! Let’s go, Bianca!