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The Lavender Menace — 75 episodes
our complicated relationships with Beyoncé & Taylor Swift, eating disorder culture, & living in t€KKKno-KKKapitaliSSt am€riKKKa
abolition feminism, abuse apologism, & best books of 2025
reading is CRUCIAL! discussing Caliban & the Witch by Silvia Federici & queer/feminist histories
Sinners (2025) review + loving the arts & authenticity
Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal album review/ranking (CONTROVERSIAL!!!!) + the liberal arts aren't for everyone
Not everyone can be a feminist! (bell hooks shade) + documenting gay life in Michelle Tea's Against Memoir
We hate AI, ‘futch,’ & Spotify Wrapped
Communism is the only answer!!! + Ranking & reviewing Sabrina Carpenter's Short 'n Sweet
Kamala lost & it's Democrats' fault. Stop blaming leftists for not voting for a genocidairess
brat review + song ranking (we love gay people & queer history soooo much)
can straight people say "queer?" stanning Chappell Roan, criticizing Cowboy Carter
Lesbian books (sorry, F/F romance novels) suck! But "Kissing Jessica Stein" (2001) is brilliant
Ethics of media piracy, gender essentialism & “male feminists,” Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
2023 movies, music, & books in review: our favorites & flops
Misogyny on the left, lesbian dating apps, Barbie (2023) thoughts & review
Lesbians for a Free Palestine
No more male artists!!! 🤬 Who can identify as femme? 🤔 Also contemporary cinema flopping... 🙊
Speak Now (Gaylor's Version) ranking & review, re-recordings/"Taylor's Version" & building narrative
postmodern gender identities, anti-Zionism/pinkwashing, 90s feminism & 90s girlypop film
Politics of media consumption & comparing two queer American literature class syllabuses
Why you're wrong about gaylor, problems with 'sapphic spaces,' & lesbian feminist legacies
top/bottom roles in lesbian sex?! beauty standards?? ranking SZA's music, CTRL deluxe & SOS!
comphet & lesbian masterdoc, Poker Face TV review, our flop era (not consuming as much media)
Seriously unserious, reviewing 'Sort Of' on HBOmax, & Sunnaissance Nation
bad mainstream lesbian representation & bad faith internet discourse
De-centering men, distinctly pansexual, Céline Sciamma + mothers' daughters
online lesbian drama & discourse: wrapping up our 2022's media input & output
forcing people out of the closet, lesbian loneliness, & Jill Gutowitz's essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now
fatphobia, speculating on people's sexualities, & reviewing yet another shitty teen movie
Taylor Swift's Midnights review & song ranking & lyric analysis
LAVENDER (haze) SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE: Taylor Swift NOT beating the alleGAYtions
Midnights announcement & gaylor thoughts, discussing our favorite lesbian period dramas The Handmaiden (2016) & Summerland (2020)
"Non-binary" as a 3rd gender (boo!), butch/femme (yay!), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) review
celebrity culture, "queer" vs. "lesbian," reviewing + ranking Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE
Carolina knows what? Sally Rooney-verse, & politics of p0rnography
Gaylor evidence, But I'm A Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999), high femme blondes
IRL era! Solidarity vs. privilege, Nordic model vs. communism, Heartstopper vs. First Kill (battle of the Netflix LGBTQ teen adaptations)
Queer identity & liberation, Derry Girls, & universal teenage girlhood experiences in media
defending Amber Heard against the insane Johnny Depp fans, shit talking CRUSH (2022), hating & complaining
Lesbians against Harry Styles, Russian Doll Season 2 review, & matriarchies
introductory communist theory recommendations, more online LGBTQ discourse, & Gaylor Easter eggs: 1 year anniversary & season 3 finale
movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Where The Crawdads Sing, & Taylor Swift) + a new favorite movie (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
gaylor swifties of color thoughts on race, gender, & Charli XCX's album CRASH 💥⚡️
Lesbophobia online? Can men direct movies about women? Why is Russian Doll so good?
Ranking our top 10 favorite Taylor Swift songs, rehashing Tik Tok drama, & battling Hetlors with The Archers podcast cohosts Madyson & Katie!!!
Hating on validity politics, corny lesbian short films, & podcast updates!
discussing misandry, white women, & Chinese lesbian representation in "Saving Face" (2004) dir. Alice Wu
Marxist feminists vs. internet discourse on sex, Fleabag, & lamenting abysmal media literacy/comprehension levels
our advice to LGBTQ high schoolers & very belated review of Adele's latest album, 30
Shawn Mendes is gay, look back on 2021's trials & tribulations, slays & cancellations
blondie's 32nd birthday! album rankings & what was Taylor Swift's best era?
fake gays, is Reputation overrated? & Passing (2021) dir. Rebecca Hall
Compulsory heterosexuality, Red (Taylor's Version) ranking + review, defending Taylor Swift against the haters
addressing the biphobia discourse, battling internet ignorance, & our Fearless (Taylor's Version) x reputation era
Season 2 finale: the media that shaped us & our childhood queerness, unique relationships to fandom
Back from the hiatus, your nice emails (August throwback), Hannah Wilke at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Did we like Solar Power ?! + thoughts on Hasan's $2.4 million house & 'Assassination Nation' (2018)
Gaylor blind items, the intimacy of female friendship & the queerness of girlhood, are you a Renaissance or a Sunny?
Abolish the olympics & the brilliance of Miranda July's 'Kajillionaire' (2020)
Fluidity of sexuality vs. lesbianism & thoughts on queer(bait-y) British comedy show This Way Up ft. guest! Palestinian lesbian stan twitter bae @abitallie
"White man's communism" & idolizing 'Great Men' of history vs. Taylor Swift being an actual great woman of history, culture, genius
The politics of superheroes (MCU shit!), our Zola thoughts, & anticommunist military propaganda
Our employed era, campy sapphic media, & Taylor Swift's millennial cringe
Straights in gay bars discourse, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo obsession era, Taylor Jenkins Reid owns us af
Women can and should be evil, Taylor Swift is STILL gay, Season Finale shenanigans
None of you know any lesbians IRL and it shows, Solar Power af, & music slays
Pride Month Discourse, Gay Wonder Woman, Lengthy Recommendations
Perpetual horniness vs. damnation, annoying white western gays, Catholicism is camp
SOUR lesbians, Jennifer’s Body & the continuing queerness of girlhood, stans vs. haters
Kaylor x Reputation?! discussing girlhood & memory with Ellie Eaton, author of The Divines!
Lesbians not biphobic (sometimes), For Harriet against school to prison pipeline, and Special Announcements!
BONUS EPISODE: how we consume & perceive different forms of media (books, TV, movies, live theatre)
Our Sagittarius mom Taylor Swift listens to girl in red!!! Also unintelligent men & badass women
Men Are Bad, Wonder Woman is Boring, Sunny has no Patience
Taylor Swift is gay, Shiva Baby rocks, & illiterate lesbians