Book Review | Malice: Sleeping Beauty Retold
Malice is a brilliant fairytale retelling of Sleeping Beauty all from the perspective of the “villain”, Alyce – dubbed Malyce by her bully.
Alyce is half Vila, a dark fae kind of creature feared by the light fae for their destructive powers. She was found as a baby, abandoned to the care of a…
Book Review | Reign of the Fallen: Queer Necromancers
Necromancers are one of the five types of powered people you can find in the secluded and remote lands of Karthia. Blue-eyed sorcerers of the dead, they bring back the deceased in a risky game that is more and more putting the kingdom in danger.
Necromancers are winding up dead, and the protagonist, Odessa,…
Book Review | Ice Massacre: Queer Mermaids
The first book in the Mermaids of Eriana Kwai trilogy, Ice Massacre introduces readers to the island of Eriana Kwai and it’s mermaid threat, a fight for survival and control over the sea.
A couple of decades ago, merpeople moved from the Atlantic into the Pacific ocean and started attacking the waters around Eriana…
Book Review | The Dark Wife: Retelling of a Greek Myth
A queer retelling of the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, The Dark Wife reimagines Hades as a quiet, reclusive dark goddess who has been wronged by her brother, Zeus, in a multitude of ways.
In this reinterpretation, Persephone enters the Underworld to escape Zeus and his sexual harassment and after losing a loved one.…
Review | The World To Come: A disappointment with many precedents
From the dreary scenery and muted colours to the amateurish cheap shots, watching The World to Come was a painful, predictable wait for the inevitable. Following a streak of sapphic period movies, The World to Come appears as a clumsy attempt to copy a pretentious, intrinsically empty style. Historical is a genre, period is a…
Review | Gunpowder Milkshake: Crying Over Spilled Milk
Sometimes it’s hard for queer audiences and reviewers to explain just how angry a show or movie gets them. Netflix’s latest action movie is a good example of this. Gunpowder Milkshake, written and directed by Navot Papushado, wants to be a lot of different things. I watched it with my girlfriend, a film graduate, and…
Queerbait: The Case of Supergirl
Supergirl has been accused of queerbait by a large part of its lgbt+ audience. But how can a show do queerbait when one of the regulars is gay and in a sapphic couple? TV channels, especially popular ones like The CW, are faced with the choice of whether to include lgbt+ representation and the backlash…
Review | Elisa & Marcela: lesbians are weird
Don’t you just love it when straight women come to our rescue and interpret our stories with their deep sympathy and compassion for our struggles? Sarcasm, yes. I think I gave away that this isn’t going to be a positive review. I found this movie an impressive paradox of slimy weirdness and utter boringness. First…
Review | Fate: The Winx Saga
My mum would never let me live down my childhood obsession with Winx Club. In retrospect, it made perfect sense for a baby gay to get obsessed with that cartoon. That’s why I was kinda looking forward to a live action when it was first announced. This show had much potential for sparkly queer representation.…
Review | The Wilds: A Gay Binge
The survival-science hybrid we all needed. 100% female lead, with no male main in sight. Female friendship, connection, trauma, and lots of chemistry.
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