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Desire
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MAGDALENE
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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Cape God
Carries a strong pull into television through after-hours and South Asia.
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Lesbian Desire in Carmilla: The Demon and the Contagion
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
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Sarazanmai
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
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Yuri!!! on Ice
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and folklore.
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Television · Strong bridge
Orange Is the New Black
2010s
Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. It is based on Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum security federal prison. Produced by Tilted Productions in associ...
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Little Fish
2010s
Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, might have been transgender as well. At first she dismisses the revelation, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of their increasingly volatile lives We...
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MAGDALENE
2010s
Magdalene is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter FKA Twigs. Released on 8 November, 2019, by Young Turks, it is her first project since her EP M3LL155X (2015), and first full-length record since LP1 (2014). The album features a sole guest appearance from American rapper Future. FKA Twigs produced th...
Anime · Strong bridge
Doukyusei
2010s
Hikaru Kusakabe is a normal, carefree boy in a rock band who is always focused on the present. During the summer, his entire class is forced to participate in an upcoming chorus festival. By coincidence, he discovers his classmate Rihito Sajou—known for being an honor student with excellent grades—practicing his sin...
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Wings of Desire
Angels watch over divided Berlin. One wants to become human for love. Poetry as cinema.
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Essays 2020s
Lesbian Desire in Carmilla: The Demon and the Contagion
Lesbian Desire in Carmilla: The Demon and the Contagion is a 2025 essay or critical text by Federica Moneri, linked to a wider international field and English. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial con...
Television 2010s
Looking
Looking is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on HBO from January 19, 2014, to July 23, 2016. It was created by Michael Lannan, with Lannan, Andrew Haigh, David Marshall Grant, and Sarah Condon serving as executive producers. The show stars Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez, Murray Bartlett, Laur...
Music 2020s
Cape God
Cape God is the second studio album by Canadian singer Allie X. It was released on February 21, 2020 by Twin Music and distributed by AWAL. The release followed her extended play Super Sunset (2018). The album was primarily written by Allie X and James Alan Ghaleb, and produced by Oscar Görres. It received generally...
Anime 2010s
Yuri!!! on Ice
Reeling from his crushing defeat at the Grand Prix Finale, Yuuri Katsuki, once Japan's most promising figure skater, returns to his family home to assess his options for the future. At age 23, Yuuri's window for success in skating is closing rapidly, and his love of pork cutlets and aptitude for gaining weight are n...
Film 1980s
Law of Desire
Law of Desire is a 1987 film from Spain, associated with Pedro Almodóvar. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.