Trans Rights Readathon Recommendations 2024
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by Roseanna
15h ago
You may remember from last year, the team collated some of their favourite books by trans and nb authors or centring trans and nb characters for the Trans Rights Readathon, an event primarily organised by creators on Tiktok to raise awareness of trans authors and stories, and encourage people to donate to some great causes in the face of the horrific issues being faced by trans folks across the world right now, all through the medium of reading some amazing books. This year, the readathon is back, with creators on various media committing to promote trans works, and to be reading them between ..read more
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TV Review: X-Men '97
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by Ann Michelle Harris
2d ago
A nostalgic return to the addictive X-Men adventures of the '90s Back in the '90s—before iPhones and streaming apps—a long week of work or school would be rewarded with a lazy Saturday morning of sugary breakfast cereal and X-Men cartoons. The original X-Men: The Animated Series stood out from the other Saturday morning entertainment because of its diverse characters, edgy storylines, heavy social justice commentary, and soap-opera-level romantic entanglements. Although X-Men comics had been around for decades, the weekly episodes brought the adventures of billionaire mentor Charles Xavier an ..read more
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Review: Love Lies Bleeding
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by haley
3d ago
A24's new sapphic psychological thriller is a wildly entertaining look at revenge, body horror, and attraction For months prior to the release of director Rose Glass'sLove Lies Bleeding, the lesbian internet has been absolutely ablaze with speculation and anticipation. With a Kristen Stewart-helmed gay love story set in 1980's New Mexico, how could it not? Discussions of its cinematic forbears bubbled to the surface: It was obviously going to take stylistic cues from the neo-noir Wachoski-directed Bound (1996) and the stark and beautiful setting from Desert Hearts (1985). Beyond that, we were ..read more
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Film Microreview: Robot Dreams
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by Arturo Serrano
4d ago
It shouldn't be possible for such measured, minimal forms to contain all this wealth of feelings Of the five candidates for the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2024, Robot Dreams is the most visually modest. Without the energetic wildness of Nimona, the boundary-pushing experimentation of Across the Spider-Verse, or the meticulous virtuosity of award winner The Boy and the Heron, Robot Dreams tells an intimate story of loneliness, bliss, grief, and reconstruction that stays faithful to a specific moment in New York history while expressing an emotional journey so universal that it doesn't even ..read more
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Review: March's End by Daniel Polansky
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by Paul Weimer
1w ago
Taking some of the basic the tropes of epic and portal fantasies and intensifying them via the lens of a family drama.  You may think you have heard this story before. Young scions of a ruling family in a fantasy kingdom have to come to terms with being the next generation and having to fill their parents' and ancestors' shoes, especially as a power capable of undoing the world comes calling. Plenty of extruded fantasy product has this sort of dynamic, in epic fantasy novels, trilogies, and series that are not yet complete.  If you are a seasoned reader of epic fantasy, you know all ..read more
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Review: Deadlier Than by Corey Brotherson, art by Jennie Gyllblad, Olivia Samson, Ted Brandt and Kit Buss
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by Roseanna
1w ago
 A collection of graphic shorts that deliver a big punch in a small space. I don't think I've ever read a graphic novel of short stories before, or at least not this short. WicDiv had that one issue that was bit more episodic... but it was also a lot chonkier than the rest of the series, and had a heavy reliance on text-only pages, so I'm really not sure it counts. Deadlier Than... however is a collection of three short stories told in comic form, connected by a theme of female strength, and tied together by short text interludes from the perspective of an injured spider. And that ..read more
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Review: Damsel
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by haley
1w ago
Netflix's new CGI dragon and Millie Bobbie Brown vehicle is a perfectly fine fairy tale romp aimed at the YA audience.   Like many a fairy tale, Damsel begins with a young woman, Elodie, who is given away in marriage to the noble family of Aurea, her dowry a last-ditch effort to save her people from starvation. Little does she know that her new family has a sinister secret — they have to sacrifice three brides to appease the evil dragon who lives in the nearby cave, and Elodie is the first to be tossed callously into the yawning chasm.  The vast majority of the movie is spent ..read more
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Review: Strange Journey by Maud Cairnes
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by Clara Cohen
1w ago
Vintage body-swap, with vintage sensibilities  Body swapping is a well-used trope, familiar in modern media, but dating back farther than you might think. F. Anstey had a father and son switch bodies, in his 1882 novel Vice Versa; and in 1931 Thorne Smith did it again with a husband and wife in Turnabout. In these cases—and in most of the more modern Freaky Friday versions1—what makes the story work is that the swappers know each other. Indeed, body swapping is a useful narrative tool by which two acquaintences can further develop a high-stakes relationship by learning what each other’s ..read more
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Review: Drive-Away Dolls
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by Alex Wallace
1w ago
Be lesbian do crime. If there is one word that describes the filmography of the Coen brothers, it is ‘quirky.’ They are almost instantly quotable. There is always some character with an outlandish accent. There is an endlessly weird plot that nevertheless says something intelligent and profound about America (and it’s always America) by the end. Now, Ethan Coen sets off with his debut as a solo director, the lesbian crime film Drive-Away Dolls, written by Coen and Tricia Cooke, released in February of 2024. This film is set at a very particular junction in American history: the late 1990s ..read more
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Review: Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
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by Roseanna
1w ago
A delightfully atmospheric exploration of a world and a hotel through the eyes of the workers, linking together their daily experiences to allow us to see a great whole. In almost every forum I've seen it referred to, the blurb for Floating Hotel refers to The Grand Budapest Hotel. It's what drew me to reading it. And it is entirely accurate, from a purely vibes-based perspective. I don't know quite how, I don't know quite why, but while reading, I had the spiritual equivalent of that music that everyone used for a bit doing Wes Anderson skit tiktoks going round my soul on a neverending loop ..read more
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