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The Lavender Menace — 75 episodes

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our complicated relationships with Beyoncé & Taylor Swift, eating disorder culture, & living in t€KKKno-KKKapitaliSSt am€riKKKa

2

abolition feminism, abuse apologism, & best books of 2025

3

reading is CRUCIAL! discussing Caliban & the Witch by Silvia Federici & queer/feminist histories

4

Sinners (2025) review + loving the arts & authenticity

5

Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal album review/ranking (CONTROVERSIAL!!!!) + the liberal arts aren't for everyone

6

Not everyone can be a feminist! (bell hooks shade) + documenting gay life in Michelle Tea's Against Memoir

7

We hate AI, ‘futch,’ & Spotify Wrapped

8

Communism is the only answer!!! + Ranking & reviewing Sabrina Carpenter's Short 'n Sweet

9

Kamala lost & it's Democrats' fault. Stop blaming leftists for not voting for a genocidairess

10

brat review + song ranking (we love gay people & queer history soooo much)

11

can straight people say "queer?" stanning Chappell Roan, criticizing Cowboy Carter

12

Lesbian books (sorry, F/F romance novels) suck! But "Kissing Jessica Stein" (2001) is brilliant

13

Ethics of media piracy, gender essentialism & “male feminists,” Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

14

2023 movies, music, & books in review: our favorites & flops

15

Misogyny on the left, lesbian dating apps, Barbie (2023) thoughts & review

16

Lesbians for a Free Palestine

17

No more male artists!!! 🤬 Who can identify as femme? 🤔 Also contemporary cinema flopping... 🙊

18

Speak Now (Gaylor's Version) ranking & review, re-recordings/"Taylor's Version" & building narrative

19

postmodern gender identities, anti-Zionism/pinkwashing, 90s feminism & 90s girlypop film

20

Politics of media consumption & comparing two queer American literature class syllabuses

21

Why you're wrong about gaylor, problems with 'sapphic spaces,' & lesbian feminist legacies

22

top/bottom roles in lesbian sex?! beauty standards?? ranking SZA's music, CTRL deluxe & SOS!

23

comphet & lesbian masterdoc, Poker Face TV review, our flop era (not consuming as much media)

24

Seriously unserious, reviewing 'Sort Of' on HBOmax, & Sunnaissance Nation

25

bad mainstream lesbian representation & bad faith internet discourse

26

De-centering men, distinctly pansexual, Céline Sciamma + mothers' daughters

27

online lesbian drama & discourse: wrapping up our 2022's media input & output

28

forcing people out of the closet, lesbian loneliness, & Jill Gutowitz's essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now

29

fatphobia, speculating on people's sexualities, & reviewing yet another shitty teen movie

30

Taylor Swift's Midnights review & song ranking & lyric analysis

31

LAVENDER (haze) SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE: Taylor Swift NOT beating the alleGAYtions

32

Midnights announcement & gaylor thoughts, discussing our favorite lesbian period dramas The Handmaiden (2016) & Summerland (2020)

33

"Non-binary" as a 3rd gender (boo!), butch/femme (yay!), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) review

34

celebrity culture, "queer" vs. "lesbian," reviewing + ranking Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE

35

Carolina knows what? Sally Rooney-verse, & politics of p0rnography

36

Gaylor evidence, But I'm A Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999), high femme blondes

37

IRL era! Solidarity vs. privilege, Nordic model vs. communism, Heartstopper vs. First Kill (battle of the Netflix LGBTQ teen adaptations)

38

Queer identity & liberation, Derry Girls, & universal teenage girlhood experiences in media

39

defending Amber Heard against the insane Johnny Depp fans, shit talking CRUSH (2022), hating & complaining

40

Lesbians against Harry Styles, Russian Doll Season 2 review, & matriarchies

41

introductory communist theory recommendations, more online LGBTQ discourse, & Gaylor Easter eggs: 1 year anniversary & season 3 finale

42

movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Where The Crawdads Sing, & Taylor Swift) + a new favorite movie (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

43

gaylor swifties of color thoughts on race, gender, & Charli XCX's album CRASH 💥⚡️

44

Lesbophobia online? Can men direct movies about women? Why is Russian Doll so good?

45

Ranking our top 10 favorite Taylor Swift songs, rehashing Tik Tok drama, & battling Hetlors with The Archers podcast cohosts Madyson & Katie!!!

46

Hating on validity politics, corny lesbian short films, & podcast updates!

47

discussing misandry, white women, & Chinese lesbian representation in "Saving Face" (2004) dir. Alice Wu

48

Marxist feminists vs. internet discourse on sex, Fleabag, & lamenting abysmal media literacy/comprehension levels

49

our advice to LGBTQ high schoolers & very belated review of Adele's latest album, 30

50

Shawn Mendes is gay, look back on 2021's trials & tribulations, slays & cancellations

51

blondie's 32nd birthday! album rankings & what was Taylor Swift's best era?

52

fake gays, is Reputation overrated? & Passing (2021) dir. Rebecca Hall

53

Compulsory heterosexuality, Red (Taylor's Version) ranking + review, defending Taylor Swift against the haters

54

addressing the biphobia discourse, battling internet ignorance, & our Fearless (Taylor's Version) x reputation era

55

Season 2 finale: the media that shaped us & our childhood queerness, unique relationships to fandom

56

Back from the hiatus, your nice emails (August throwback), Hannah Wilke at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation

57

Did we like Solar Power ?! + thoughts on Hasan's $2.4 million house & 'Assassination Nation' (2018)

58

Gaylor blind items, the intimacy of female friendship & the queerness of girlhood, are you a Renaissance or a Sunny?

59

Abolish the olympics & the brilliance of Miranda July's 'Kajillionaire' (2020)

60

Fluidity of sexuality vs. lesbianism & thoughts on queer(bait-y) British comedy show This Way Up ft. guest! Palestinian lesbian stan twitter bae @abitallie

61

"White man's communism" & idolizing 'Great Men' of history vs. Taylor Swift being an actual great woman of history, culture, genius

62

The politics of superheroes (MCU shit!), our Zola thoughts, & anticommunist military propaganda

63

Our employed era, campy sapphic media, & Taylor Swift's millennial cringe

64

Straights in gay bars discourse, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo obsession era, Taylor Jenkins Reid owns us af

65

Women can and should be evil, Taylor Swift is STILL gay, Season Finale shenanigans

66

None of you know any lesbians IRL and it shows, Solar Power af, & music slays

67

Pride Month Discourse, Gay Wonder Woman, Lengthy Recommendations

68

Perpetual horniness vs. damnation, annoying white western gays, Catholicism is camp

69

SOUR lesbians, Jennifer’s Body & the continuing queerness of girlhood, stans vs. haters

70

Kaylor x Reputation?! discussing girlhood & memory with Ellie Eaton, author of The Divines!

71

Lesbians not biphobic (sometimes), For Harriet against school to prison pipeline, and Special Announcements!

72

BONUS EPISODE: how we consume & perceive different forms of media (books, TV, movies, live theatre)

73

Our Sagittarius mom Taylor Swift listens to girl in red!!! Also unintelligent men & badass women

74

Men Are Bad, Wonder Woman is Boring, Sunny has no Patience

75

Taylor Swift is gay, Shiva Baby rocks, & illiterate lesbians