The Lavender Menace - Abolish the olympics & the brilliance of Miranda July's 'Kajillionaire' (2020)

Abolish the olympics & the brilliance of Miranda July's 'Kajillionaire' (2020)

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08/02/21 • 102 min

The Lavender Menace

On this week's installment of Sunny and Renaissance's regularly scheduled three part podcast of a submitted hot take, joint media consumption, and personalized recommendations for each other, your favorite lesbian communists exhibit their bimboism in regards to professional sports but ultimately comes to the conclusion that like capitalism, they must be abolished! Thank you to @scissorclown on Twitter for this scathing hot take. Then we rant and scream and cry and yell and stomp over the absolute wildness that is the 2020 indie drama Kajillionaire directed by Miranda July, whom we definitely think is a genius. This unconventional heist movie about family, money, survival, love, intimacy, emotional neglect, queerness and mentally ill lesbians with mommy issues....! Yeah we are a bit blown away. Finally, Sunny recommends the novel Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung-Frazier in how it has the same weirdly hyper specific scenario x brilliant queer energy of Kajillionaire, and Renaissance recommends the campy 2004 movie D.E.B.S. directed by Angela Robinson (the director of Renaissance's favorite movie, Professor Marsten and the Wonder Woman).

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undefined - Fluidity of sexuality vs. lesbianism & thoughts on queer(bait-y) British comedy show This Way Up ft. guest! Palestinian lesbian stan twitter bae @abitallie

Fluidity of sexuality vs. lesbianism & thoughts on queer(bait-y) British comedy show This Way Up ft. guest! Palestinian lesbian stan twitter bae @abitallie

Welcome to episode 5 of season 2 of The Lavender Menace podcast, where we, smart lesbian communists of color, discuss hot takes about communism lesbianism and everything fun sexy and cool, consume and discuss queer media, and recommend books movies and TV shows to each other. Today we are joined by the lovely Nour, whom you might recognize from lesbian film milf stan twitter @abitallie! Our lovely listener Ruhi submitted some meme hot takes for us to discuss from the instagram account @themcel.pill, in which we discuss the fluidity and individuality of queer identity versus the solidity and reality of lesbianism. For the second part of the episode we discuss the Hulu original series This Way Up and the disappointing lesbophobia in season 2. Sunny still can't watch TV but they for sure tried! For media recommendations, Renaissance recommends Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and has thoughts on the racial and economic implications of the popularity of revolutionary figures in media, and on a lighter note also recommends the lesbian classic Desert Hearts (1985) which they attempted to make Sunny watch months ago. Nour recommends the movie Nell (1994) as a lighthearted 2.7 Letterboxd stars watch, and Sunny recommends the short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw published in 2020.

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Hello swifties/gaylors/our fellow mentally ill sapphics obsessed with a 5'10 blonde Sagittarius, Today we are blind reacting (kinda) to a listener submitted gaylor blind item blog post (link here: https://girlsandgaylors.tumblr.com/post/187281985680/gaylor-blind-items-2014-now) from @ariesgodmother on instagram for our hot take portion of the podcast, then discussing the novella Many A Little Makes by Sarah Shen-lien Bynam in The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/novellas/many-a-little-makes submitted by @whataoife on Twitter, and finally recommendations, as always. Renaissance recommends the classic 1991 movie Thelma and Louise, and Sunny recommends the upcoming Sally Rooney release Beautiful World Where Are You. Follow us on Twitter @thelavenderpod for live updates and more gaylor shitposting! Message us on socials or email us at [email protected] with your hot take for the chance to be featured in our next episode. Support the pod by becoming a patron at patreon.com/thelavendermenace!