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Queer as Folk
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Stone Butch Blues
Carries a strong pull into anime through power and folklore.
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Little Fish
Carries a strong pull into anime through memory and folklore.
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Cape God
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Black Queer
Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Queer Art of Failure
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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Gender Trouble
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Stone Butch Blues
1990s
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America. While fictional, the work also takes inspiration from Feinberg's own life, and she describes it as her "call to action."
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Cape God
2020s
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...
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Whisper of the Heart
1990s
Tsubaki hails from an all-female clan of ninjas hidden deep in the forest. While a strict code guides the many kunoichi in training, the most important rule the young women must adhere to is: never interact with men, for they are far too dangerous to be trusted. As the leader of Team Dog, Tsubaki has many duties she...
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The Watermelon Woman
1990s
The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye. The first feature film directed by a Black lesbian, it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young Black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a Black actress from...
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Essays 1990s
Gender Trouble
Gender as performance, not essence. The founding text of queer theory.
Television 2020s
The Queen's Gambit
An orphaned chess prodigy battles addiction and Cold War opponents. Chess as character study.
Books 2010s
Little Fish
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...
Anime 2010s
Scum's Wish
To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with. Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for as long as she can remember, so she is elated to discove...
Film 1990s
My Own Private Idaho
My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V. The story follows two friends, Mike Waters and Scott Favor, played by River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, respectively, as...
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Essays 2010s
The Queer Art of Failure
"The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to con...