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We Did the Reading
by We Did the Reading
The Homo Pomo Podcast where we’re smart about dumb and dumb about smart. 📚🌈
Episodes
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17. Tangerine: Participation Rather Than Observation
iPhones. This movie has everything: trans women, Christmas carols, donuts, meth, and prisons and your father’s making! What does it mean for a white cis guy to make a film about black trans women and Is it possible to tell others’ stories ethically through collaboration? What’s so appealing about...
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16. SCUM Manifesto: The Perfect Gay Storm
We’re talking about our favorite anti-male pump up jam, SCUM Manifesto. This controversial and iconic essay was written by Valerie Solanas, founder and singular member of SCUM (the Society for Cutting Up Men) and failed assassin of pop art darling Andy Warhol. Werk! We dig into this manifesto,...
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15. Crisis Zone: The Perverted COVID Narrative We Deserve
In 2020 while the world was literally falling apart, comic icon Simon Hanselmann stepped up as the hero we needed. Publishing daily to instagram, Hanselmann showed in real time how the cast of his cult classic series Megg and Mogg were coping in the quarantine. In our opinion, it’s the best piece...
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14. The General Cultural Phenomenon of Sex and the City
Surprise, bitch! I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me! It’s our first episode back in New York so obviously we drank a bottle of rosé and talked about Sex and the City. And as we recorded this episode, we couldn’t help but wonder if all lesbians are Mirandas by default or if there’s a more...
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13. Mommie Dearest: Coping through Camp
We’re discussing the iconic camp film, Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford. It’s our first ever episode in the same room! We discuss camp entertainment as therapy, the behinds the scenes gossip of both the making of Mommie Dearest and the life of Joan Crawford herself. Why are...
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12. Montero (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X: Hell is Gay Now
We’re discussing the music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” by Lil Nas X, examining the referential nature of queer art, the influence of memes on pop music, and whether or not one can successfully masturbate using a peach. Does Clementine look like Khloé Kardashian if she read queer...
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11. Please Come Off-Book: Interviewing Kevin Kantor
We interview Kevin Kantor about their new poetry collection, Please Come Off-Book. Using their personal experience as an actor, Kevin explores gender, family, and art-making (all the good stuff) through the lens of the American theatre tradition. We talk to Kevin about the complicated aftermath…
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10. The Possible Canonic Bisexuality of Taylor Swift feat. Aurelia Grierson
Our very first guest, long time friend and fellow gay goblin Aurelia Grierson joins us to preach the gospel that Taylor Swift is bisexual. We look at all the bisexual clues presented in T-Swift’s canon, especially on sister records Folklore & Evermore. Is Taylor Swift bisexual? Does it even…
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9. Party Monster: A Movie Based On a Book Based on a Murder
Murder! Drugs! Murder while on drugs! Life size humanoid rats as a narrative device to avoid a libel lawsuit! Macaulay Culkin! This movie has everything - and everybody - you’ve ever wanted to see committed to film. We talk about how this already homo/pomo text was adapted into an even more...
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8. Framing Britney Spears: The Emergency Episode
Hear ye, hear ye! All girls, gays, and theys have been summoned to this emergency episode. The #FREEBRITNEY movement has finally garnered the attention of the heterosexuals due to The New York Times’ recent documentary about Britney’s conservatorship, bitch. We literally had to talk about it. We...
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7. Disco Bloodbath by James St. James: The Fabulous and the Grotesque
We’re talking about the “fabulous but true tale of murder in clubland,” Disco Bloodbath. Later re-printed as Party Monster, this non-linear, Ketamine-infused true crime novel paints an abstract picture of the Club Kids and details the horrific murder of Andre “Angel” Melendez by scene leader,...
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6. Interview with the Vampire: The Future Liberals Want
We’re sinking our teeth into the 1994 film adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. If an abundance of beautiful, long haired men making googly eyes at one another wasn’t enough to qualify this as a queer text, consider the vampire as a metaphor for queer sexualities and also that...
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5. The Tragedy of Britney Spears
We’re comparing and contrasting two articles profiling our queen: Rolling Stone’s 1999 cover story Britney Spears, Teen Queen: Inside the Heart and Mind (and Bedroom) of Britney and The Tragedy of Britney Spears from the same publication 9 years later. It's Britney, bitch. Additional Reading:...
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4. Happiest Season: The Yuletide Caucasian Lesbian Get Out
Everybody’s talking about Happiest Season and so are we! Clea DuVall of But I’m a Cheerleader and we-knew-before-she-did fame writes and directs this traumatic lesbian coming out story decorated in festive rom-com wrapping paper. Also Kristen Stewart is there. Bottoms rejoice! We discuss queering…
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3. The Golden Girls: Watching an 80s Coming Out Story in 2020
We’re comparing two episodes of iconic sitcom and cultural reset, The Golden Girls. We eat a cheesecake and discuss the two Very Special Episodes which track Blanche’s brother’s coming out arch: (S4E10) "Scared Straight" and (S6E14) "Sisters of the Bride." We talk about engaging with media with...
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2. Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel: A Constellation of Stars Which Look Like a Man
We’re diving into graphic memoir Are You My Mother, fittingly written by Pia’s literal (figurative) biological mother Alison Bechdel. We talk about mom trauma, the “two genders” of color, and God. You know, the usual stuff. Does this episode pass the Bechdel test? And will your reading group pass...
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1. Crush by Richard Siken: Why Is Male Violence so Horny?
In our very first episode, we’re talking about contemporary classic Crush by Richard Siken. This award winning homo pomo poetry collection was the perfect place to dive in to the queer canon. We talk about male violence, reinventing the Bible in our own image, and David Lynch. What even is a…
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