A midweek Pop Culture Fix upon you, friends!

+ Margot Robbie wants to romance Poison Ivy as much as you want her to in the next Birds of Prey. 

“Trust me, I chew their ear off about it all the time,” says Robbie, when asked if there has been any discussion of bringing Poison Ivy to the DCEU. “They must be sick of hearing it, but I’m like, ‘Poison Ivy, Poison Ivy. Come on, let’s do it.’ I’m very keen to see a Harley-Poison Ivy relationship on screen. It’d be so fun. So I’ll keep pestering them. Don’t worry.”

+ Aubrey Plaza’s gonna play the Antichrist mom in the new animated series Little Demon.

+ Freeform summer premiere dates are here! Motherland: Fort Salem is back on June 22nd. grown-ish is back on July 8th. Good Trouble is back on July 14th. And The Bold Type is back on May 26th.

+ E! taps Laverne Cox to start hosting red carpets in 2022.

+ 14 times Hollywood straightwashed queer characters.

+ The most virtuosic of St. Vincent, according to Annie Clark.

+ Related: St. Vincent and the limits of rock and roll mystique.

+ Let’s talk about queer coding and its history in film and TV.

+ Why is it so hard to be evil in video games?

+ Sarah Paulson answered every question Vulture had about Down With Love. 

+ Sleater-Kinney is back with a new album.

+ How Tig Notaro digitally replaced Chris D’Elia in Army of the Dead. 

+ Good riddance to the Golden Globes.

+ Angelica Ross promises “very strong female energy” for American Horror Story season ten.

+ Mare of Easttown has a “bad hair rule.”

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