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As Bold as Brass
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I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Axis: Bold as Love
Carries a strong pull into television through power and after-hours.
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Illness as Metaphor
Carries a strong pull into books through Susan Sontag and identity.
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As Tears Go By
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Queer as Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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Books · Strong bridge
Bold as Love
2001 novel by Gwyneth Jones
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Music · Strong bridge
Axis: Bold as Love
1960s
Hendrix's second album. Little Wing and the marriage of blues, psychedelia, and studio craft.
Film · Strong bridge
As Tears Go By
1980s
Gang loyalty, bruised romance, and city-night momentum collide in an early Wong Kar-wai feature.
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Essays · Strong bridge
Illness as Metaphor
1970s
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...
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Television 2010s
The Bold Type
The Bold Type is a 2017 television series from United States, shaped by Victor Nelli, Jr., Jamie Travis, Anna Mastro, and Tara Nicole Weyr. It helps the serial catalog read as a real field of seasons, institutions, and recurring pres...
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Illness as Metaphor
1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag
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I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is the eighth studio album by the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on April 22, 1997, by Matador Records. It was produced by Roger Moutenot and recorded at House of David in Nashville, Tennessee. The album expands the guitar-based pop of its predecessor Electr-O-Pura...
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Film 2010s
Happy as Lazzaro
A saintly peasant boy transcends time. Italian fable about innocence and exploitation.

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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My Life as a Dead Girl
2015 telefilm directed by Penelope Buitenhuis