Results for: Feel good
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Movie Review: “Life Partners” is About a Lesbian, Not a Man
I know you probably read the longline (Two codependent best friends — one straight girl, one lesbian — and the man who comes between them.) and wanted to shoot yourself, but this movie isn’t about a man at all AND it’s pretty good.
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The Speakeasy Reacts to “Dear White People”
“Dear White People is not a how-to guide on ways to avoid performing acts of microaggressions, or why it’s bad to appropriate black people’s culture. Instead, it’s an examination of the importance of support systems, the difficulty of being an outsider, and how one uses identity as a tool of protection.”
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Movie Review: In “Breastmilk,” Women’s Bodies Are Still Not Their Own
So much of our cultural rhetoric around breastfeeding is tied to a sense of what women should be doing rather than what they would like to or are even able to do. Breastfeeding isn’t purely a medical issue, but neither is it a wholly moral one. And all the parameters that go into a woman’s decision to breastfeed pale next to the fear that she is somehow failing her child.
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I Tried Not to Have Feelings at Sundance London; These Three Movies Made Me Fail
The film festival was not as gay as hoped, and it turns out I’m still not cynical enough to not cry when ladyqueers say “I do.”
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Movie Review: “Submerge,” The Lesbian Porn Film Turned Bondage Drama
A university student feels pressure to be perfect but finds refuge in the Australian fetish scene.
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Movie Review: Biopic “Reaching For The Moon” Lets Us See Elizabeth Bishop in Love
“Reaching For The Moon” is a biopic about the turbulent relationship between American lesbian poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Yep, it’s just as good as it sounds.
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Rhymes With Witches: The Virgin/Whore Dichotomy in “Saved!”
This dichotomy has been analyzed in numerous papers and books, but none do it with as much flair and fun as the teen cult classic, “Saved!”.
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Rhymes with Witches: Dazed and Confused’s Darla Marks Is No Ordinary Queen Bee
“Geared with fruity roll-on lip gloss and knee high socks, Darla works at the helm of the barbaric ritual with such ferocity it’s hard to believe she’s just a teenage girl.”
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“My Prairie Home” Proves You Can Go Home Again: A Review of Rae Spoon & Chelsea McMullan’s Documentary
“My Prairie Home is more than pretty skies and poetic wheat fields. It’s also about growing up different in a difficult environment and what it means to survive.”
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Flowers In The Attic Movie Recap: What the F*ck
I need a sanitizing hand wipe for my soul, you guys.
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“Lizzie Borden Took An Axe” Movie Recap: More Like Take A Nap, Amirite
Get ready to settle in with Christina Ricci, Clea Duvall, Quinn Fabray’s dad, and Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual’s dad from Once and Again and watch some bloody crimes get committed!
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Blue Is The Warmest Color: The Male Gaze Reigns Supreme
If you’re looking for a primer in all the ways that modern media is still failing queers, this film is a good start.
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WATCH NOW: “Concussion” Knows Sex Is Never Enough
The first thing you should know about “Concussion” is that Robin Weigert has sex.
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Murderous Crazy Lesbians in Pools: Breaking The Girls
Breaking the Girls is not the kind of movie where you are going to see RuPaul in short-shorts. Not unless RuPaul’s corpse is in short-shorts when they find him floating facedown in a SoCal jacuzzi.
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Wolfe Video Movie Night: Kiss Me
In honor of upcoming Valentine’s Day and the lady you’d like to smooch, here’s a movie about forbidden romance and really beautiful kissing that will get the two of you in the mood for equally beautiful kissing. You can stream it right now, in fact!
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Chely Wright’s Documentary “Wish Me Away” Will Give You So Many Feelings
Country star Chely Wright told the truth. And it was breathtaking.
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VIDEO: Julie & Brandy In Your Box Office Episode #205: Cloud Atlas In The Sky
Julie Goldman and Brandy Howard woke up really really early to witness three hours of Cloud Atlas action. Now you can witness that action third-hand. But will you want to fist it? Tune in to find out!
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Woven From Me: “Gender, Bespoke” Explores How Identity Creates Style
“For queer women, clothing is about much more than what you’re wearing. Clothing allows us to create an identity for ourselves—and to control how other people view us and consider us.”
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Movie Review: ‘Jack & Diane’ is Weird, Gay and Kinda Good
Being young and in love makes you an idiot monster, and that’s what “Jack & Diane” is about.
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Brave’s Unconventional Heroine: What Doesn’t Queer You Makes You Stronger
“This is the kind of movie that needs to be made more often. It’s like Tangled on feminist steroids.”