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  • Special thanks to Jester for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.

    Hmm, a 2000s-era supernatural love triangle YA novel by a Utah-raised author with a lot of extremely unfortunate implications baked into the lore....this all sounds familiar, but we can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just Pike specifically name-dropping Stephanie Meyer all over the place. If only this protagonist had as much going on internally as Bella Swan.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of disordered eating and fatphobia, ableism, racism, anti-vax rhetoric/alternate medicine, eugenics, body horror, sexual harassment, and misogyny

    Alex's YA Recs: https://theafictionado.wordpress.com/tag/book-recs/

    0:30 Commission!
    2:00 Content Warnings
    5:00 Drink Recipe
    8:00 Stealth Mormonism
    11:00 Our Stunning Perfect Heroine
    18:00 Mmm, Gender Politics
    23:00 Missing Body Horror
    27:00 The Bad Boy One
    32:00 Fairy Biology and Cosmology
    41:00 Holy Eugenics Batman
    47:00 A Climax Allegedly Ensues
    56:00 The Shadow of Homeopathy

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  • Our summer celebration of Pride comes to a close (with many apologies for the delay) on a return to a familiar face: Jamie Babbit, best known for the landmark lesbian film BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER. Today we look at her 2007 follow-up, its deliberate attempts to introduce young viewers to the world of queer activism, and how well it achieves those goals. Also, the fact that you've probably never heard of it.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of misogyny, body-shaming, fatphobia, homophobia and gaybashing, transphobia, racism, infidelity, age-gap relationships, and war crimes.

    RAFIKI: https://www.kanopy.com/product/rafiki

    OF LOVE AND LAW: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/oflovelaw

    1:00 Wolfe Media
    10:00 “Clits in Action”
    17:00 Generational Activism Divide
    32:00 The Act Three Problem
    39:00 The Ghost in the Film
    44:00 Theory vs Accessibility
    49:00 Bonus Recs

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  • Listen, this is a queer podcast 365 days a year. Pride Month won't be stopped by a little thing like June being over. It's time for the 90s, and the film its director describes as "an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 on acid."
    On the board for this episode: the difference between "queer representation" and "queer cinema," the queer reclaiming of mainstream genre work, and the pros and cons of making intensely of-the-moment art.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide, racism, child sexual abuse, homophobia+biphobia, religiosity, gore/animal death and body horror

    Variety Interview: https://variety.com/2019/tv/features/gregg-araki-starz-now-apocalypse-1203155576/

    Black Is, Black Ain't: http://newsreel.org/video/BLACK-IS-BLACK-AINT

    Disclosure: https://www.netflix.com/title/81284247

    Poison: https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/poison

    1:00 Intro to Araki + New Queer Cinema
    12:00 24 Hours of “Nowhere”
    14:00 Ethics and Young Actors
    17:00 The Teen Soap Gang
    22:00 Alien Invasion
    26:00 At the Party
    32:00 Nihilism and Vulnerability
    37:00 Pop Culture Time Capsule
    40:00 Fuck Harmony Korine Corner
    45:00 Queer Cinema Recs

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  • It's time at last to spotlight the patron saint of this podcast, the pope of filth himself: John Waters. While he's better known for Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble is the most potent and maybe the best of his 1970s work, a razor-sharp satire of heteronormative culture that can only flourish because it comes from such a tight team of collaborating artists and weirdos.

    But it's also worth asking: what happens when an outsider artist becomes a public figure? What does that new element of privilege do to their art and how they relate to the marginalized community they come from?

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, incest, homophobia, transphobia, child abuse (physical/emotional/sexual), cults, and ableism

    I Am Divine (Documentary; also on Netflix): https://vimeo.com/ondemand/iamdivinefilm

    Female Trouble Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5xziMBpf0Q

    Shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HjIljJd-o0

    John Waters Interview (2015): https://www.indiewire.com/2015/08/john-waters-on-caitlyn-jenner-we-cant-make-fun-of-her-241129/

    John Waters Interview (2018): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/08/john-waters-homotopia-festival-liverpool-manson-murders

    1:00 John Waters and Filth
    9:00 Divine and Gender
    11:30 Content Warnings
    13:00 The Life and Times of Dawn Davenport
    26:00 Queer Satire
    31:00 Modern Waters and Serial Mom
    38:00 Should You Watch This

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  • Happy Pride Month, listeners! It's time for our annual four-episode journey through the history of queer film, and this year we'll be looking in particular at camp and outsider cinema.

    While Bride might be quite famous, it's also a perfect starting place for our discussion: director James Whale's camp masterpiece, which those who knew him spent years after his tragic death denying as a queer work (possibly, we suspect, because they feared it would be pigeonholed as "gay art" rather than cinema for everyone). Which leads to an even thornier question....how are queer artists pushed to define their audience?

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, homophobia, and suicide.

    The Hollywood Blacklist: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2016/06/21/blacklistarchive

    "Bela and Boris" Miniseries: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2017/11/21/belaandborisarchive

    1:00 Pride Intro
    2:30 The Code Era Returns
    10:00 A MORAL Sequel, Dear Viewer
    16:00 That’s Pretty Gay, Bro
    29:00 Craving for Legitimacy
    41:00 Listener Question

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  • The sequel's still better.

    We revisit the weird double image of Magic Mike, a "quiet lives of desperation" dance movie that was marketed almost solely based on its five or six minutes of male strip revues. Which both sells the subtler moments of the script short and disguises the unmasked contempt that the film overall has for women. It's...well, listen. There's a reason we're covering it here.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of toxic masculinity, misogyny, sexual assault, racism, whorephobia, classism, biphobia, and Matthew McConaughey

    1:00 Production Info
    12:00 Class in 2012
    15:00 About That Misogyny
    25:00 SHAME SPIRAL feat. Biphobia
    32:00 Toxic Masculinity Central
    37:00 The Alleged Happy Ending
    47:00 Should You Watch This

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  • We're back, and not a moment too soon; there's a twister in Kansas! As season two kicks off Clark gets boner powers and Pete finally gets a role in the plot, while Dr. Hamilton continues to mosey through his episodes being both inscrutable and delightful. Oh, and Lionel is blind now. It's handled as tactfully as you'd imagine.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, rape culture, misogyny, ableism, toxic masculinity, racism, and nationalism.

    2:00 Bite-Sized Summaries
    6:30 Monsters of the Week
    31:00 Heart of the Show
    34:00 And That’s Terrible
    42:00 The Jukebox

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  • Special thanks to Chelsea for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.

    Today we were set a daunting challenge: find something that hasn't yet been said about infamous cinematic trainwreck Showgirls. As the modern conversation swings from "reclaimed camp" to "was it in fact Good Actually all along" following the release of the documentary YOU DON'T NOMI, it felt like time to wade into those claims. What the hell was Showigirls trying to do, anyway?

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, ableism, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture, sexual assault, whorephobia, fatphobia, drug use, ageism, and auteur bullshit.

    Showgirls! The Musical!: https://soundcloud.com/showgirlsthemusical

    You Don't Nomi: http://www.youdontnomifilm.com/

    0:30 Commission Stuff
    3:00 Content Warnings
    5:00 In Summary
    18:30 Some Notes on Camp
    24:00 Eszterhas v Verhoven
    29:00 A Second Bite at Flashdance
    40:00 Versayce (The Characterization Problem)
    48:00 Showgirl History
    52:00 Failed Satire

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  • For our 100th mainline episode, we decided to look in on one of Dorothy's childhood favorites, a cult hit that inspires a mix of terror and deeply held affection in all who remember it. And since Dorothy is also a megafan of Baum's books, it also provided a chance to talk about how the Oz series has been adapted over the years. Thanks for 100 episodes, listeners, and here's to 100 more.

    Content Warning: Discussion of ableism, medical horror, body horror, the House of Mouse's Bullshit

    1:00 Showing Our Age
    5:00 Production Notes
    15:00 From Book to Film
    41:00 Many Adaptations
    46:00 100 Episodes

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  • Special thanks to Anile for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.

    This month we stretch our muscles by getting into some ~literary fiction~! More precisely, the work of Dennis Cooper, a big name in queer outsider art who influenced previous DBC alumni Billy Martin (aka Poppy Z Brite) and Chuck Palahniuk and whose published alongside inevitable future subject Brett Easton Ellis.
    FRISK, the story of a dude who has a lot of sex and even more fantasies about violently murdering his partners, is considered his most intimidating work so....let's plunge right into that deep end! Pack a bag, because we did a LOT of extra reading for this one. Also, all the content warnings. My God, all of them.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, pedophilia, coprophagia, water sports, snuff, necrophilia, graphic descriptions of gore/dismemberment, racism, queerphobia, transphobia, grooming, ageism, and misogyny.

    The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm

    The JT Leroy Scam: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2006/04/jtleroy200604

    William S Burroughs' Nike Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6LjfxSBqwM

    Cooper's Formalism and "The Sluts": https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/is-this-for-real-is-that-a-stupid-question-a-review-of-dennis-coopers-the-sluts/

    Interview w/ Cooper's Biographer: https://minorliteratures.com/2020/07/16/the-dangerous-art-of-dennis-cooper-an-interview-with-diarmuid-hester-author-of-wrong-a-critical-biography-of-dennis-cooper-by-paul-jonathan/

    Article BY Cooper's Biographer: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/dennis-cooper-the-last-literary-outlaw-in-mainstream-us-fiction-1.4274856

    Personal Relationships in Cooper's Writing (Salon): https://www.salon.com/2000/05/04/cooper/

    Cooper's Mother (LA Times): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-ca-cooper29-story.html

    BOMB Magazine Interview: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/dennis-cooper/

    Not Like Other Gays (Honcho Magazine): https://slavamogutin.com/dennis-cooper/

    1:00 Content Warnings
    4:00 Drinks
    9:00 A Helpful Timeline
    14:00 OH Shit, it’s the Frankfurt School
    26:00 Sexual, Not Erotic
    30:00 The Sad But Not Ballad of Dennis Cooper
    42:00 “In Your Lane” vs “Blinkers On”
    57:00 Interview Diving

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  • Yes, the actual name of this anime is either "My Sexual Harassment" or "Boku no Sekuhara," but we wanted our title to briefly capture the extremely mangled naming convention from the height of this title's memetic fame. Because anime fandom is, has always been, and will always be an embarrassment. We're looking at you, "Boku no Hero" people.
    For this year's horny Valentine special, we dove into the infamous yaoi OVA and how its creation in the 90s and popular English-language distribution in the 00s ended up having a ripple effect on how Western fandom conceives of BL even up to today.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, dubious consent, graphic sexual descriptions, and queerphobia

    Minotaur's Sex Tips for Slash Writers: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Sex_Tips_for_Slash_Writers

    Gentlemen Behold, Corn (AMV Hell): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GTo1zyQXmQ&ab_channel=amvhell

    Twittering Birds Never Fly: https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/twittering-birds-never-fly-is-engrossing-gay-yakuza-melodrama/

    1:00 Content Warnings and Production History
    15:00 Bone Your Way to the Middle
    28:30 Behold, Corn
    32:30 Bad Porn Physics
    38:30 Trailer Porn
    45:00 Generational Market Shifts

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  • We made it to the end of season one! And then they left us with a cliffhanger! Rude! There continue to be Vibes we did not request. But on the bright side, John Glover came back to chew some more scenery, and that's always a fun time.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of police brutality, sexual assault, racism, incest

    1:30 Bite-Sized Summary
    4:00 Monsters of the Week
    30:00 Wisdom from Pa Kent
    34:45 Heart of the Show
    40:30 And That's Terrible
    54:00 The Jukebox

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  • Our holiday gift to you, our dearest listeners, is a second bite at the meme, the myth, the legend: that terrifying dead-eyed snowman puppet animated by the trapped soul of Michael Keaton. And also a microbudget slasher. We figured we'd watch one basically watchable movie and one deeply uncomfortable one, and that's sure what we got!
    Also feat. cameos by all of the Zappa children, for some reason.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, existentialism/morbidity, graphic depiction of car crash death, grief, parental neglect, body horror/gore

    "Jack Frost" Fangoria Interview (Pages 34-37): https://archive.org/details/Fangoria_221

    1:00 Battle of the Budgets
    7:00 Absent Dad Films
    14:00 Never Try, Kids
    21:00 Best Bully Ever
    26:00 The Sweet Release of Death
    31:00 When Camp Fails
    41:00 Framing and Audience Expectation

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  • Special thanks to Ceslatoil for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.

    An academic specializing in fan studies and a trans media critic walk into a Harry Potter fanfic. Chaos ensues.

    In which we unpack the different structural needs of fanfics versus standalone works, the problem of only thinking through the implications of your bad guy twist halfway, and why all the most interesting characters are dead.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, queerphobia, transphobia, JK Rowling (the redundancy is noted), misogyny, ableism, and domestic abuse

    Russell Howard Reads 50 Shades of Gray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb1i0SD5mJk

    Ursula K Le Guin Roasts JK Rowling: https://twitter.com/ldrinkh20/status/1307519066001879040?s=20

    Racism in Eleanor & Park: https://www.nupoliticalreview.com/2018/10/31/the-problem-with-eleanor-park/

    1:00 The Harry Potter Connection
    6:00 Drinks!
    8:00 Limited Scope of Fandoms Highlighted
    21:00 Our Off-Brand Cast
    30:00 Ladies and Queer Stuff
    38:00 “The Worst Chosen One”
    45:00 It’s About the Implications

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  • Special thanks to Roisin for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.

    In which two Star Trek fans -- one casual, one Deep -- reckon with a Star Trek movie made for people who hate Star Trek and pay homage to all the good fanwork this movie spawned before digging into the messy postmortem of the project itself.

    CONTENT WARNING for discussion of genocide, homophobia, and misogyny.

    Star Trek by Apple (the Dyson hand dryer shot): https://vraik.tumblr.com/post/632060689598562304/star-trek-2009-looked-like-this

    Choice AMVs
    Tik Tok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWaWrvJ7nA
    Hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeX-cXtmxAs
    So Close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCVMD5j0uY

    1:00 Trek History
    12:00 JJ Abrams, Avowed Trek Hater
    15:30 The AU Angle
    22:00 Our nuCast
    30:30 Enterprise by Apple
    35:00 Insert Emotions Here
    43:00 About Vulcan
    48:00 Compliment Sandwich

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  • In which an extra-large basket of episodes brings us dead little brothers, sex pollen, and the show somehow pulling out another shockingly decent plot about toxic masculinity.

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of euthanasia, sexual assault, suicide, sexualization of minors, incest, grooming, child abuse, and misogyny.

    2:00 Bite-Sized Summary
    5:00 Monsters of the Week
    29:00 Heart of the Show
    37:30 And That’s Terrible
    44:00 Wisdom From Pa Kent
    50:00 Knock-Off Brand
    51:00 The Jukebox
    55:00 Best/Worst

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  • For our final October outing into horny horror (and if this movie isn't horror, we don't know what is), we looked at beloved cult classic and infamous banned film The Devils, which has been unavailable in its complete, uncensored form more or less since its filming in 1971.
    Buckets of criticism, including multiple books, have been written on the film, so we tried to tackle a subject we hadn't seen discussed much: how the women of The Devils are treated, both the actors and the historical figures on whom the film is supposedly based. We read books for this one!

    CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, sexual harassment, misogyny, religious abuse, torture, ableism, medical abuse, body horror.

    Hell on Earth documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeg1yIvalSo

    1:00 To Set the Scene
    4:30 A Possession at Loudon
    12:00 Father Grandier, Shithead
    17:00 Content Warnings
    20:00 About Those Horny Nuns
    26:00 And the Women Who Played Them
    31:00 The Acceptable Masculinity
    37:00 Legacy and Witchcraft
    44:00 The Femur

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  • Back in 1943, a queer screenwriter penned a film about a woman struggling with her fear that she had unnatural urges waiting to reveal her as a monstrous beast. Forty years later, Paul "The Canyons" Schrader decided the best way to tackle reinterpreting that hidden gem would be to add incest and a lot of full frontal. It is, to say the least, A Lot.

    CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, child abuse/child sexual abuse, animal cruelty, incest, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and body horror/gore.

    "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie" (Filming on The Canyons): https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html

    1:30 The Theory of Remakes
    6:00 What is a Cat Person (40s Edition)
    13:00 What is a Cat Person (80s Remix)
    16:00 Siblings, You Say
    22:00 WERE Animals Harmed?
    27:00 Sexual Anxieties
    33:00 Back on the Remake Rails
    39:00 Schrader’s Work

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  • This week's episode was chosen by listener poll, and y'all did us a solid by choosing the post-quarantine horror film HOST. Everything about it is so deceptively simple that we predict a lot of imitators, but who knows if they'll be able to capture this hour-long film's charms.

    CONTENT WARNING for discussion of suicide, pandemic stuff, parental sexual abuse, ableism

    "Dawn of the Deaf" short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cziqkD7iO-g

    1:00 Background
    4:00 Dawn of the Deaf
    6:30 Zoom Horror
    12:00 Séance Etiquette
    16:00 And Then There Were…
    24:00 Platform Hierarchies

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  • We return to the works of Billy Martin AKA Poppy Z Brite for a Crow tie-in novel that wants to say a lot about systemic oppression in the queer community but kind of trips over its own feet and then breaks every bone in its body. Which is certainly interesting to watch, if nothing else.

    This episode was commissioned by Anile! You can find out more about how to commission an episode by visiting patreon.com/trashandtreasures.

    CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, queerphobia, transphobia, ableism, sexual assault, hate crimes, incest, infant death, natural disasters, dismemberment/gore, intimate partner abuse, grooming, pedophilia, alcoholism, and animal death.

    PROPAGANDA Magazine: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Propaganda+Magazine%22

    Brookes Photos: https://propagandamagazine-gothic.tumblr.com/post/626509824023232512/model-and-muse-by-fred-h-berger-of-all-the

    Lost Souls Episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-960635156/drunk-book-club-poppy-z-brites-lost-souls-1

    1:00 Poppy Z Brite AKA Billy Martin
    8:00 Today’s Drinks
    11:30 Content Warnings
    15:00 The Crow Franchise
    20:00 A Brief Summary
    26:00 90s “Deviance” Stories
    31:00 The Importance of the Survivor
    39:00 The Quietness of the Sheep
    46:00 The True Crow
    60:00 Depictions of Bigotry as Raw vs Lurid
    70:00 The Case of Propaganda Magazine

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