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Movie: Some of My Best Friends Are...

Pre-Maude Rue McClanahan as a rich barfly surrounded by adoring men. Pre-Andy-from-WKRP Gary Sandy as a self-loathing male hustler. Pre-Buck Rogers Gil Gerard as a gay airline pilot in love. Warhol-era Candy Darling as a beautiful, forlorn trans woman. All part of this 1971 ensemble film following the regulars at a Greenwich Village gay bar for a few hours on Christmas Eve. It's a real time capsule so lots of slurs and stereotypes, and anti-trans brutality towards the end. On Fubo and MGM+ and free in a low-quality Youtube rip. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Jun 8, 2024 - 6 comments

Movie: I Saw the TV Glow

Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously cancelled. [more inside]
posted by kokaku on May 11, 2024 - 15 comments

Fallout: The Beginning  Season 1, Ep 8

Two hundred years have passed since the beginning of the apocalypse. Leaving the atomic shelter that protected them will pave the way to an unknown world that will unleash a war for survival. [more inside]
posted by Pong74LS on Apr 21, 2024 - 38 comments

Movie: The People's Joker

An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader. [more inside]
posted by GenjiandProust on Apr 20, 2024 - 4 comments

Sort Of: Sort Of - Season 3 (Final Season)  Season 3, Ep 0

Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo's funny, charming and very queer story of Sabi, a gender non-conforming Pakistani-Canadian figuring out their life in Toronto, finishes up with eight 20-minute episodes in the final season. Note: the decision to end the series came from the creators. Changes come for Sabi, Aqsa, Wolf, 7ven and the rest of the crew. On HBO in the US. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Mar 17, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: Call Me Miles

Documentary about young South African Afrikaans trans masc nonbinary person, Miles Kean Cilliers Robinson. [more inside]
posted by Zumbador on Aug 26, 2023 - 1 comment

Heartstopper: Season 2  Season 2, Ep 0

Nick, Charlie, Tao, Elle, Isaac and all the rest of the Truman/Hicks gang are back. [more inside]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero on Aug 7, 2023 - 13 comments

Movie: So Vam

Kurt is an outcast in a conservative town who dreams of moving to the city to be a famous drag queen. When he is kidnapped by a predatory old vampire and killed, he is rescued just in time to be resurrected by a gang of rebellious vampires who feed on bigots and abusers. As a vampire he finally knows empowerment and belonging, but his killer is still out there: creating new minions with their own rotten hatred and threatening all that he loves. Until Kurt faces the monster, he will never truly be free, but this time he need not face it alone. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 23, 2022 - 4 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Electric Utilities  Season 9, Ep 11

This week (episode taped on 5/14)... Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. was elected President of the Philippines as was feared in the previous episode, Norway presents a severely WTF entry to Eurovision. Alabama bans the use of hormones and puberity blockers to treat transgender patients under the age of 19, making it a felony punishable by 10 years in prison, a bill signed by Governor Kay Ivey. And Now: The Delightful Delight Of Allison Hammond. Main story: electric utilities: the incredible amount of power their wield, how weakly they can be regulated, and the damage that can do, which has resulted both in the creation of spurious and badly-managed projects in order to charge more on bills in profit, and in them attacking community-led solar projects that threaten their bottom line. In the end, John Oliver is killed by Reddy Kilowatt. On YouTube (24 minutes). [more inside]
posted by JHarris on May 18, 2022 - 3 comments

Heartstopper: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series. [more inside]
posted by crossoverman on Apr 24, 2022 - 21 comments

Siren: Northern Exposure  Season 3, Ep 7

Ryn, Ben, and Maddie must recruit new allies in the fight against Tia; Helen seeks answers when she's haunted by Donna's spirit; Tia obtains dangerous weapons she plans to use in her fight. [more inside]
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice on May 8, 2020 - 2 comments

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Lee  Season 1, Ep 8

"Lee is you if you ever had a regret so big you just couldn't shake it, no matter how hard you tried." [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 16, 2020 - 5 comments

Book: To Be Taught, If Fortunate

A stand-alone science fiction novella from Becky Chambers, the author of the Wayfarers series. Like her other books, it's an intimate, character based story. No concrete antagonists, some tech, a simpld, quiet and thoughtful space opera.
posted by signal on Sep 8, 2019 - 5 comments

Book: Revenant Gun (Machineries of the Empire #3)

Shuos Jedao is awake.... and nothing is as he remembers. In his mind he’s a teenager, a cadet—a nobody. But he finds himself in the body of an old man, a general controlling the elite forces of the hexarchate, and the most feared—and reviled—man in the galaxy. Hexarch Nirai Kujen orders Jedao to reconquer the fractured hexarchate on his behalf even though Jedao has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general. Surely a knack for video games doesn't qualify you to take charge of an army? Soon Jedao learns the situation is even worse. The Kel soldiers under his command may be compelled to obey him, but they hate him thanks to a massacre he can't remember committing. Kujen's friendliness can't hide the fact that he's a tyrant. And what's worse, Jedao and Kujen are being hunted by an enemy who knows more about Jedao and his crimes than he does himself..
posted by dinty_moore on Jul 15, 2019 - 4 comments

Pose: Never knew love like this before  Season 2, Ep 4

"In “Never Knew Love Like This Before,” Pose held up a mirror to the continued violence perpetrated against transgender women of color in our society and asked us not to look away." [more inside]
posted by ChuraChura on Jul 11, 2019 - 4 comments

Book: Saga Volume 9

The multiple Eisner Award-winning series returns with a spacefaring adventure about fake news and genuine terror. Warning: Feelings. Collects SAGA #49-54 [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on Jul 11, 2019 - 4 comments

Book: Saga Volume 8

After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe. Collects issues 43 through 48.
posted by dinty_moore on Jan 15, 2018 - 3 comments

Veronica Mars: Meet John Smith  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 3

Things really get moving here. Veronica gets hired to track down a classmate's long-lost (or dead?) father, enlists Wallace to start taking records from the office, dates Troy, and tries to get to the bottom of the mystery around her own mother. Oh, and what kind of medication is Duncan really taking? [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Oct 4, 2017 - 2 comments

Podcast: How to Be a Girl: Episode XIX: Red State Mama

I thought I was pretty brave until I met my counterpart from a red state.
Avery's National Geographic Cover
Nat Geo Article
Avery's mom's speech
Music credits: "Telling Me So" and "Spring" (instrumental) by St. Paul de Vence
posted by ellieBOA on Feb 23, 2017 - 1 comment

Book: The Fifth Season

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. [more inside]
posted by dinty_moore on Aug 14, 2016 - 44 comments

Podcast: StartUp Podcast: The Runway (Season 3, Episode 5)

It’s not uncommon for shoppers to walk out of Mary Going’s store feeling on top of the world. Mary runs Saint Harridan, a company that makes custom suits for the gender non-conforming. With her store, Mary has created a space that caters to the needs of butch women and trans men—something that doesn’t happen very often. Her fans are enthusiastic and dedicated, her products are selling out… and she can barely pay her rent. [more inside]
posted by sparklemotion on May 26, 2016 - 7 comments

Podcast: How to Be a Girl: Episode X: School (Part II)

This is a continuation of Episode IX. It tells the rest of the story of what happened when her transgender daughter started second grade at a new school. Music credits: "Light Thought Variation 2," "Thatched Villagers," and "Relaxing Piano Music" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven)" by Dr. Phibes and The Ten Plagues of Egypt,  "Bagatelle (Ludwig van Beethoven)" by Circus Marcus.  THANK YOU to my generous supporters on Patreon.com: Nyssa, Nicholas Harrigan, Sebastian Riisgaard, Krystal, Andrea Sackett, Andy Moore, David, Dustin Andres, Myrna Bohan, Emily Savin, David Rosenthal, Jo-Hanna Read, Meghan O'Hara, Allison Mulcahy, Maraia Ener, Gil Rich, Hampus Jakobsson, Tammy, Sonali Bhagat, Debby Swayne, Clare Jones, Gene Gibson, Nathan Jones, and Brookie Judge.
posted by ellieBOA on Mar 25, 2016 - 0 comments

Podcast: How to Be a Girl: Episode IX: School (Part I)

This episode has been six months in the making, because that's how long it took for this story to play out. It's the story of my daughter entering second grade at a new school where we knew no one, almost no one knew her secret, and I had no idea how I was going to keep her safe. Music credits: "Blackbird" and "Light Thought Variation 2" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Chiaroscuro" by Zé Trigueiros, and "Piano Symphony No. 1" by Miss M.
posted by ellieBOA on Mar 10, 2016 - 1 comment

Podcast: How to Be a Girl: Episode VIII: Meeting Laverne

Earlier this year, my daughter got to meet the transgender TV star Laverne Cox. I wrote about it for my blog, and that heart-warming, feel-good post went crazy viral on the internet.  But there's more to the story.  Here it is. My daughter gave her first interview (to Amy Poehler's Smart Girls website): Check it out!Music credits: "Hearts Mend (Prelude)" by Rebecca Foon, "EDM Detection Mode" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "nu pop2" by Plusplus.
posted by ellieBOA on Aug 7, 2015 - 2 comments

Podcast: How to Be a Girl: Episode VII: THE FACTS (about transgender kids)

When my son first started saying that he was actually a she, I went looking for information. I wanted hard numbers.  I wanted data.  I wanted science to tell me to do. This is what I discovered.
posted by ellieBOA on Jul 5, 2015 - 0 comments

Podcast: How to Be a Girl: Episode I: Mama, I'm a Girl

When he was three years old, my son informed me that she was actually my daughter.  I'm now the mother of a happy, confident little transgender girl, but it took a while to get here.
posted by ellieBOA on Jun 24, 2015 - 3 comments

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