The Lavender Menace - Shawn Mendes is gay, look back on 2021's trials & tribulations, slays & cancellations

Shawn Mendes is gay, look back on 2021's trials & tribulations, slays & cancellations

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01/10/22 • 158 min

The Lavender Menace

Welcome to episode 4 of season 3 of The Lavender Menace podcast! Today we will be recapping our past year of podcasting- the journey we've been on from starting season 1 in April to being in the midst of season 3 now, in January of 2022. But first, we respond to some of our listener submitted hot takes. (You can email your hot takes to us for us to respond on the pod at [email protected] btw.) We demolish the Camilla Cabello x Shawn Mendes PR relationship, delineate clockability of gayness vs. the fake term "queer passing," and patriarchy and transmisogyny within the context of "the queer community." We discuss homosociality, the contrast between performative queerness and innate queerness, and sapphic vs. gay social realities. In our overview of the year, we reminisce upon the biphobia cancellation(s) and our favorite episodes and media consumed in 2021, as well as our intentions and purpose behind creating this podcast in the first place. Our podcast creator Spotify Wrapped stats are mind blowing- we have over 15k followers on Spotify! This, in contrast to our humble beginnings, shocks us and we are grateful for everyone involved in our little community, whether you listen to us casually or follow us on all social media platforms. Speaking of, you can find us on Tik Tok and Instagram @thelavendermenacepod, and follow us on Twitter and Letterboxd @thelavenderpod! Support us directly and get exclusive/early access content (this episode was released 3 days earlier!!) on Patreon.com/thelavendermenace. Thanks so much for an incredible 2021, can't wait for an even more amazing 2022 of the pod.

Previous Episode

blondie's 32nd birthday! album rankings & what was Taylor Swift's best era?

It's Taylor Swift's birthday, and as leaders in the gaylor swiftie community, it is our public duty to bring to you a SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE!!! who cheered who clapped who screamed? Thanks so much to Tayo (@starshineclay on twitter) for bullying us into recording this last minute. We ranked every Taylor Swift album, gave our percentage of songs we love versus the rest of the songs on each album, and harshly judged every single era Miss Swift has undergone. Get more (exclusive!) banter about Taylor's music by joining us on Patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace. Hit us up with your hot takes to be featured on future episodes! Email them to us [email protected], tweet them to us @thelavenderpod, DM us on Instagram @thelavendermenacepod, subscribe to our YouTube, and stalk our TikTok @thelavendermenacepod! We appreciate you so much for being here.

Next Episode

our advice to LGBTQ high schoolers & very belated review of Adele's latest album, 30

Disclaimer: this episode was recorded back in November of 2021, but we said what we said! We respond to a listener's negative experiences with male entitlement (trigger warning for sexual harassment) as well as their hot take on the Madonna/Whore dynamic in relationship to lesbianism. This listener's message was a delight to go through, and Renaissance really saw themself in their email. To sum up our advice- you will learn and grow and change, and current high school sapphic listeners should apply to historically women's college if they're considering going to college. For the media analysis portion of the pod, Renaissance reveals being a long time Adele stan, but Sunny is a bit more of a reluctant listener. As usual with our album reviews, we rank the songs on 30 from least enjoyed to most enjoyed, and while everything we said in this episode still stands, keep in mind that these were our fresh reactions and our thoughts on the album have settled and ruminated over time. And as usual, we make comparative analyses to Taylor Swift. (We are diehard swiftie gaylors and that's the truth!) For the final third part of the podcast where we recommend each other media, Sunny pitches The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw, a short story collection about various Black women's experiences in loose relationship to their churches. Renaissance recommends Adele's debut album 19 for its parallels to her current work. You can support The Lavender Menace podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace. Follow us on socials for updates and extra content, @thelavendermenacepod on Tik Tok and Instagram, @thelavenderpod on Twitter and Letterboxd. Sunny can be found discussing books on YouTube and Twitter at a sunny book nook, and Renaissance can be reached at @renaissancemarie on Instagram and Tik Tok, and @rxnaissance on Twitter.