Desiree Akhavan

appropriate behavior

Desiree Akhavan

movie reviews

‘Appropriate Behavior’ Says F*ck Your Coming Out Arc

Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature is one of the best indie queer movies of the past decade.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Apr 23, 2024

bisexuality

Desiree Akhavan

tv reviews

Hulu’s “The Bisexual” Is Here to Make Every Queer a Little Uncomfortable

What impresses me most about The Bisexual isn’t that it skewers The Discourse, but that it ignores it completely in favor of having an actual conversation.

Heather Hogan —

Nov 15, 2018

Desiree Akhavan

interview

movie features

“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” Director Desiree Akhavan Makes Queer Women’s Movies Because She Just Loves Queer Women

“I want to prove that money can be made off of women’s sexual stories. It’s not just a queer thing. It’s about women receiving pleasure, and giving pleasure. It’s still…

Heather Hogan —

Aug 17, 2018

amazon prime video

Desiree Akhavan

movie reviews

“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” Is a Hopeful, Hilarious, Heartbreaking Lesbian Coming-of-Age Story

“There’s no male gaze in this movie, none whatsoever. Desiree Akhavan is a queer woman and her screenplay co-writer Cecilia Frugiuele is a queer woman too. It matters.”

Heather Hogan —

Aug 6, 2018

Desiree Akhavan

emily m. danforth

movie features

Desiree Akhavan on Sex Scenes, Spectatorship, and Shooting ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’: The Autostraddle Interview

Behind every great indie film is a great woman. Or, as “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” shows, an entourage of them. Autostraddle spoke with director Desiree Akhavan about making the…

fonseca —

Feb 26, 2018

amazon prime video

appropriate behavior

movie reviews

“Appropriate Behavior” Is Fresh, Authentic, Features a Bisexual Persian Character

Breakout writer/director/actor triple threat, Desiree Akhavan, brings us a three dimensional bisexual Persian lead character and also Robin is at a kink cafe and we all wish we were there,…

KaeLyn —

Mar 19, 2015