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There Is a Balm in Gilead
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Music for 18 Musicians
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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There Is a Balm in Gilead
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These Precious Days
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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Cruising Utopia
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When Marnie Was There
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Derry Girls
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Queer as Folk
1990s
Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up was shown in 2000. It was written by Russell T Davies and produced by Red Production Company for Channel 4.
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Three Men in a Boat
1880s
Three Men in a Boat is a 1889 book by Jerome K. Jerome, linked to United Kingdom and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Music for 18 Musicians
1970s
Music for 18 Musicians is a minimalist album by composer Steve Reich recorded between April–December 1976 and released on the ECM New Series in April 1978—his first of three releases for the label. The ensemble features eighteen musicians, including Reich himself playing the part of piano and marimba, playing Reich'...
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When Marnie Was There
2010s
During a Literature Club meeting, the four club members—along with their faculty adviser's niece—suddenly find themselves with supernatural powers. Now capable of fabricating black flames, resident chuunibyou Jurai Andou is the most ecstatic about their new abilities; unfortunately, his own is only for show and unab...
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Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: Blue is a 1993 film from France, Poland, and Switzerland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata sh...
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Cruising Utopia
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity is a book in the field of queer theory by José Esteban Muñoz, published in 2009.
Television 2010s
Derry Girls
Derry Girls is a period teen sitcom set in Derry, Northern Ireland, created and written by Lisa McGee, that premiered on 4 January 2018 on UK-based broadcaster Channel 4 and ran for three series. The channel's most successful comedy since Father Ted, the series was inspired by McGee's own experiences growing up in a...
Books 2010s
A Tale for the Time Being
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...
Anime 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
Film 1990s
Three Colours: Red
Three Colours: Red is a 1994 film from France, Poland, and Switzerland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.