Movie Reviews

Sundance 2023: “Shortcomings” Tries To Explore Desirability Politics But Falls Short

This movie feels too scared to say what it really wants to say.

Images from Joyland and Slow side by side. In the first image a cis man rides on the back of a moped driven by a trans woman. In the second image a man and a woman kiss in bed.

Movie Reviews

Sundance 2023: “Joyland” and “Slow” Center Their Cis and Allosexual Characters With Surprising Success

Every story can be told, if it’s told right.

A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Splitting Wood With a Sword Like A Lesbian Avenger

“Cannot believe the M3gan sequel is not called Meg4n!”

Lizzo and Harry Styles perform at Coachella in pink fluffy coats and pink pants

Music

Queer Fans Coming Out at Harry Styles Shows Makes for a Special Space

I have attended my fair share of Harry Styles concerts (12 and counting!) and of the last eight, I think I’ve witnessed at least three people come out.

Sam Carmona, Chaz Lawrey, and Raven Sutton all making shocked faces on The Circle season 5

TV Show Recaps

Bisexual Chaos Reigns on “The Circle” Season 5

And now it’s time for our TV Team’s Resident Bisexual to rank her Circle faves!

Mareid Sullivan's book Lesbian Death is purple and features the words: “That I find it so anxiety-producing to create a project on the lesbian is precisely why I have written this book. I have written this book because I am not a lesbian. I have written this book because associating my work with lesbian makes me endlessly nervous. I have written this book because I find so much richness in lesbian histories and lesbian culture. I have written this book because I have spent endless hours in archives of lesbian activists, and I have loved every minute. I have written this book because lesbians have saved me, gave me a home, gave me language, showed me a future. I have also written this book because lesbian has been weaponized, used to instigate, justify, and perpetuate anti-trans violence and vitriol. I have written this book because I want the generations that worry that lesbian has been or is being forgotten to know that we remember. I have written this book because I feel myself holding on to the political and identitarian commitments that served me but no longer serve my students. I have written this book because I feel scared to be branded as a lesbian scholar (rather than a scholar of the lesbian). I have written this book because I cannot let lesbian go. Mostly, I have written this book because I really do love lesbians.”

LGBT Book Reviews

Mairead Sullivan’s “Lesbian Death” Tells Us Why the L Isn’t Disappearing

Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an identity, political standpoint, and theoretical concept.

Roasted kabocha squash on a plate with cheese, beets, and greens

Food and Drink

Winter Squash Is for More Than Just Soup

My top three as sauces? Sun in marinara, moon in pesto, and rising in butternut squash.

Hong Chau in Poker Face wears a cowboy hat and looks at Natasha Lyonne in a truck bed.

TV Reviews

“Poker Face” Is a Delightfully Absurdist Murder Show With the Best Guest Stars

Natasha Lyonne stars as Charlie, a woman on the run who has an innate ability to know when someone’s lying, which comes in handy when she’s called upon to solve a string of cross-country murders.

Puzzles

Mini Crossword Has a Sixth Sense About the Fifth Taste

And listen, she doesn’t have to explain herself to you! (But she will — she’s has the time and loves making new friends.)

In a still from the movie Imagine Me & You, two white lesbians hold each other in a hug while laughing. They are wearing classic 00s fashion, including a useless scarf and a short sleeved t-shirt over a long sleeved t-shirt.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: 00s Rom Comcore Is 2023’s Hottest Trend, Get Ready to Scream “You’re a Wanker, Number Nine!”

Sports networks will invest in literally anything before women’s sports, the correct way to apologize, and let’s go back in time to tell my catholic high school that the pope says homosexuality isn’t a crime after all.

The two main characters of Rye Lane stand side by side looking at a painting

Movie Reviews

Sundance 2023: “Rye Lane” Is a Flawless Story About a Blossoming Black Love

It’ll make you believe that love can be just a stroll away.

Luz and Amity lean together and admire Luz's Palisman

TV Show Recaps

“The Owl House” Gets Even More Queer as it Nears the Series Finale

The magic of friendship? The magic of Flapjack!

TV Reviews

Even Velma and Daphne’s Queer Romance Can’t Save Mindy Kaling’s Scooby-Doo Prequel

Every episode is a cringy, eye-rolling slog that doesn’t seem to have any idea who its audience is, yet seems to despise them all the same.

Two women on a couch reading have their feet in the air touching

Literature

Rainbow Reading: Gearing Up for Valentine’s Day With Queer Romance Reads

Also, the HarperCollins Union’s strike IS SOMEHOW STILL GOING ON. Rainbow Reading wholeheartedly supports the union as they pursue a fair contract for their workers.

Puzzles

Word Search: Dream Afternoon

Open the curtains and put on some ASMR, because we’re doing a word search!

Still from the movie "The Persian Version"

Movie Reviews

Sundance 2023: “The Persian Version” Tells a Brilliant Queer Story Through Art & Family Secrets

This film also asks why we make our children pay for things they knew nothing about.

Magalie Lépine Blondeau, Éric Bruneau, and Xavier Dolan look up at a golden light as they sit around the deathbed of an older woman.

TV Reviews

Sundance 2023: “The Night Logan Woke Up” Is Xavier Dolan At His Best

The last time Xavier Dolan adapted a play by Michel Marc Bouchard, he made his best film

Two trans femmes, Sabi and Olympia are in a bed made with blood orange sheets. Sabi looks at Olympia, who's lying on a mustard yellow pillow.

TV Reviews

“Sort Of” Season 2 Grapples With the Many Complications of Love

One of the things I love about season one of Sort Of is how it shows a variety of relationships and the significance they all have on Sabi’s life without feeling the need to romanticize every one.