Hi gay! 🏳️‍🌈 For this extra long Pride special, we're covering the gory gay thriller ‘Love Lies Bleeding’, directed by Rose Glass. 🏋️‍♀️💉💪🍳💘💥🔫🚬

We discuss love and addiction, giantess kinks and bodybuilding as a form of drag. We also praise this film’s refreshing disregard for queer respectability politics with its messy central couple. Get pumped!

This episode is 𖦹extra𖦹 special because we are joined by our first ever guest, Reem @pacificreem :) Based in Paris, their work focuses on the long history of what might be called moral-panic entertainment, from exploitation films to video games. They are also one half of Gross Encounters - a workshop, festival and film screening club that engages with the politics of monstrosity and alienhood by honouring low-brow, low-budget and low-resolution horror and sci-fi productions, their fandoms and their scholars. Check it out here: @_gross_encounters_ or www.grossencounters.com.

The Coven: Louisa, Mila, Tyia and Zeba

Special Guest: Reem

Theme and ‘Witch of the Week’ Music by: Sebastian Pizzaro

*CONTENT WARNING*

Violence, death, murder, addiction (specifically, steroid misuse), mentions of symbolic sexual violence and domestic abuse