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On a whim, we decided to see what it’d be like if we removed all the silence from our previous Bottoms watchalong episode.
Remember our GaySMR segment from Season 2? Well, welcome to CHAOSMR.
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For our second to last episode this season, we're watching 2023's instant chaotic lesbian classic, Emma Seligman's Bottoms starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri.
Didn't get to see Bottoms with a bunch of other queers? Already seen it and want to enjoy it again? Join us as Laurel watches it for the first time and Audrey watches it again.🍿
Psssst...want to skip to the discussion? Head to 1:32:38!
(Episode transcript in progress.)
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We loved Rose Glass's chaotic queer thriller, Love Lies Bleeding, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian, so join us as we clean up the bloody mess it left of our hearts.
*Note: if you're confused about how Laurel introduces the show in this episode, she's saying "Sapphic Murder Club" but with, like, a Curly from the Three Stooges accent.
If you're confused about anything else we've said, please consult our EPISODE TRAAAANSCRIPT.
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In light of Natasha Lyonne's recent acknowledgement of her undeniable should-be-gayness and in celebration of Women's History Month we're talking about some of our favorite should-be's.
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Show Notes
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Surrealist artist Amie Pascal brings a queer lens to portraying and challenging representations of the body, blurring lines between reality and imagination while juxtaposing abject body horror with beauty. Her work expresses a universal rawness from a queer woman’s disabled embodiment in her new series ‘A Body Apart.’
Some of the things we discussed
00:10:11 - How the pandemic and long COVID changed her art 00:18:21 - The use of vintage anatomical illustrations as reference material and the reclamation of marginalized bodies 00:20:56 - Inspiration from filmmakers and women surrealists 00:27:03 - The "real world" as a liminal and surreal space 00:33:07 - Music pairings for each paintingEpisode transcript
Paintings we discussed specifically
Not Much Left
Right in the Back
Dead Ringer I & Dead Ringer II (the other two paintings that feature L'Ange Anatomique)
On the Other Side
We Dare to Breathe (mentioned as "the heart and lungs")
Moments of Clarity Are So Rare (mentioned as "the head with all of the veins")
Infusion & Refusal (mentioned as "the grayscale images on the bright orange backgrounds")
Eviscerated
People and things we mentioned
A Body Apart playlist
Cambium Gallery
Amie's Instagram
Leonora Carrington (Britain & Mexico, account run by her grandson)
Remedios Varo (Mexico)
Léonor Fini (Argentina)
Contemporary filmmakers and artists
Céline Sciamma
Michelle Garza Cervera
Nadia Waheed
Naudline Cluvie Pierre
Daisy Parris
María Fragoso
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Today we're processing our thoughts about Aftersun, a quietly stunning debut film, written and directed by Charlotte Wells.
Some of the things we talk about include...
Memory and distance Reflection and recording Aging and growing up Atypical tension The dance scenes Wells' short films ...and more!Episode transcript
Charlotte Wells' short films
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For this episode we have time-jumped once again! We're disguising ourselves as screenwriters and going into the near future to work with AI on some ✨BRAND NEW SAPPHIC FILMS✨. The future of lesbian cinema is here! And it is...still dealing with its identity and societal prejudices. Whomp whomp.
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Other terrible AI-generated sapphic film ideas
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We originally started this podcast whilst in the throes of a dizzying cinematic crush on Portrait of a Lady on Fire, so those early episodes are a time capsule of what that was like for us and others in Portrait Nation. (#womans #bathtube!) Today we're traveling back in time to revisit our former selves and see how we feel about those 2020 feels now, centuries later, in 2024.
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We watched the new lesbian Christmas movie.
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Where to watch:
Hallmark Channel
Philo
Peacock
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Something we hear a lot (we never hear this) is that everyone's lives were too calm in 2023, so we thought we'd share some of the ways we (mostly accidentally) added a whole bunch of lesbian chaos to our lives this year in case you'd like to spice things up next year.
These strategies include:
Change work teams, then jobs, and move out of the city Talk to queer strangers Be a queer Snow White Set up camp in a new place in the dark Accumulate international bugs Put on a queer talent show Say yes to all queer art eventsEpisode transcript
Show notes
Lavender Phoenix
Torreya Cummings Barbary Coast Keelhaul project
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*According to Amie and the two of us! Send us your recommendations!
Welcome to a little episode that's kind of like lying on the floor in your BFF's bedroom and listening to records together. Our friend and Resident Lesbian™ Amie gave us six of her picks for the most sapphic music videos of the year. Then we used a random number generator to decide which three to watch along with you! Watch and listen along with us!
Episode transcript
Pegasus - Arlo Parks
The Sea - Romy
In My Arms - Big Joanie
Golden - LP
Silk Chiffon - MUNA feat. Phoebe Bridgers
Not Strong Enough - boygenius
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The theme for this season is LESBIAN CHAOSSS, and what better way to kick things off than a deep, dark dive into horror. We're joined by our beloved Dr. Horror Dyke (a.k.a. Heather Petrocelli) to talk about their brand new book Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator.
Highlights include:
😌 Queers currently have the crown for the largest empirical study in horror studies
❤️🔥 How the book came to be
💥 Horror is queer
🔥 FILM IS QUEER
🚀 Why writing an academic book was important
⛰️ Discussing some of the great (and not so great) research that came before it
💞 The importance of queer community
🍿 The live cinema experience
💅🏽 Horror and camp
Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CIFdcbLdXEdp-XWIPQs3p5gfBzmxDy5iHTE_t7dcNlE/edit?usp=drive_link
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator
(US hardcover pre-order) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Q/bo208655516.html
(UK ebook available now, hardcover pre-order) https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/queer-for-fear/
Note: the ebook is also available through Kobo, Amazon, and other ebook sellers.
Queer for Fear cover art print: https://buyolympia.com/Item/amie-pascal-queer-for-fear-print
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Noire-History-Black/dp/B07NDQLVS7
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For our final episode, we're talking to the folks who created Portrait of a Survey on Fire: Amie, Baby, and Heather.
We ask them what they thought about the survey's final list of lesbian films, and how it differs from their personal ones. We also collaborate on an alternate top 10 list(!) with some of our faves that didn't make it.
Thanks for joining and watching these films along with us! See y'all again after the break.🌴
Portrait of a Survey on Fire: https://instagram.com/portraitofasurveyonfire/
Episode transcript: coming soon!
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Retourne-toi, y'all. It's time to take a look back at the film that started this podcast, the No. 1 film on Portrait of a Survey on Fire's top 10 list of lesbian/queer films, Portrait de la jeune fille en feu. Joining us to talk about the movie and bring us with her to the moody coast of Brittany, France is comedian, writer, and actor Kelley Quinn.
Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18gITRV4tbfkwuZ-AL3o4k8hz04a9saxrds26FwFvUXY/edit?usp=share_link
Kelley's Portrait location spotting post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CdG9ESUqepS/
Kelley's website: http://heykq.com/
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Carol season's early this year! So, forget your gloves somewhere and join us for a Carol watch-and-drinkalong! We went with "drink every time they exchange meaningful looks" so...we may have had several opportunities to take a sip.
Stay tuned after the watchalong for a refreshing replay of Part 1 of our Carol discussion from last year followed by...the return of Sapphic Culture Vault!
Watchalong 00:11:37
Listener poll results: 02:07:31
"Carol Season: Part 1" episode replay: 02:16:42
Sapphic Culture Vault: 02:57:13
Episode transcript: our transcriber (Laurel) is backed up! We'll get these posted as soon as possible.
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Watched Prime Video's A League of Their Own? Think you know a lot about the show? Then play along at home with our Portrait of a Survey on Fire pals Amie, Baby, Heather, and Jamie as we ask them trivia questions from all eight of ALOTO's sporty sapphic episodes!
Follow Portrait of a Survey on Fire and Queer for Fear on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/portraitofasurveyonfire/ and https://www.instagram.com/queerforfear/
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WHAT A TREAT! In this episode we get to talk about so many sapphic things with one of our favorite authors: MALINDA LO! Join us as we cover Malinda's award winning Last Night at the Telegraph Club, her thoughts on the new Prime Video series A League of Their Own (spoiler: she loved it), and Malinda's newest book A Scatter of Light. So prepare yourselves for...ahhh we can't help it...MALINDALOTO!!!
We get into...
Butches and femmes Social norms Shirleys! Lesbian bars and bar raids Non-traditional happy endings World-building with food Always buying any book you want even if you don't know why you want itEpisode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mVOSO22c7riUXFFrs8uFU8_fh1q-U6ptOOqoj6N5OIo/edit?usp=sharing
Where to pre-order A Scatter of Light: https://www.malindalo.com/scatter
Follow Malinda Lo: https://www.instagram.com/malindalo | https://twitter.com/malindalo
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2-4-6-8! Who do we appreciate?! Honestly, a lot of people. But this week we're specifically appreciating Jamie Babbit and everyone else involved in 1999's extraordinarily campy But I'm a Cheerleader, a movie that literally changed the life of our guest this week: Dor Dotson.
Let's talk about:
THE COLORS The soundtrack! How well it holds up even after over 20 years! Great dialogue Gender roles and stereotypes And more!Episode Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tBivItzXRs7ICt5sdY8SNslF6wMNMrFhonZxrzff-so/edit?usp=sharing
Stuff we mentioned in the show:
Natasha Lyonne and Clea DuVall 20th anniversary interview: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6986-but-i-m-a-cheerleader-turns-twenty-natasha-lyonne-and-clea-duvall-reminisce-on-their-cult-classic Elliot Page on BIAC: https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/elliot-page-says-but-im-a-cheerleader-helped-him-deal-with-loneliness-of-lbgtq-identity-in-his-youth/603-6deda143-fcd1-45ba-8164-82b7e9fc6750--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sapphiccultureclub/message -
Do you believe in love at first meetcute? Are you ready to run through a gauntlet of gay panic and heteronormativity to finally find true love? Want to see how Cersei was employed before she cast her sights on the Iron Throne? Want to talk about all of this and more while we watch a mid-aughts lesbian rom-com along with our friend Grace who will be watching it for the first time??? Well, you're in luck! Now you can imagine us and you watching Imagine Me & You as we discuss...
Lena Headey and Piper Perabo (come on, we all know why we're here) Wow, Coop is horrible Is this movie actually about Heck and not lesbians? Mid-00s fashion! Is Dance Dance Revolution actually Dyke Dyke Revolution? Lena Headey and Piper PeraboEpisode Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pqenVbQQff6aLYYTD_cmXpgu1Z4RfVaCec-SuaaWY8w/edit?usp=sharing
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Pull on your most delicate gloves and get ready for a sapphic triple-cross! We're gonna talk about Park Chan-wook's 2016 adaptation of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith and...
Wow, ok, scissoring (and the sex scenes in general) The comedy! How the score sounds...familiar Differences between the film and the book Plot twists! The romance! ...and moreEpisode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VgCrtdOsrifzYFc6aPwCRK8BskI912tsFdVOrMgVS-M/edit?usp=sharing
Big thank you to @badportraitfanart for transcription help for these past few episodes! You're the best. Please follow them on Instagram! https://instagram.com/badportraitfanart/
Jia Tolentino's article "'The Handmaiden' and the Freedom Women Find Only with One Another" - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-handmaiden-and-the-freedom-women-find-only-with-one-another
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