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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