Sapphic Culture Club

Sapphic Culture Club

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Sapphic Culture Club episodes

  • Bottoms (2023) Discussion and Watchalong!
    For our second to last episode this season, we're watching 2023's instant chaotic lesbian classic, Emma Seligman's Bottoms starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri.
    Didn't get to see Bottoms with a bunch of other queers? Already seen it and want to enjoy it again? Join us as Laurel watches it for the first time and Audrey watches it again.🍿
    Psssst...want to skip to the discussion? Head to 1:32:38!
    (Episode transcript in progress.)
    1 hr 59 min
  • Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

    We loved Rose Glass's chaotic queer thriller, Love Lies Bleeding, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian, so join us as we clean up the bloody mess it left of our hearts.

    *Note: if you're confused about how Laurel introduces the show in this episode, she's saying "Sapphic Murder Club" but with, like, a Curly from the Three Stooges accent.

    If you're confused about anything else we've said, please consult our EPISODE TRAAAANSCRIPT.


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    41 min
  • "I should be gay."

    In light of Natasha Lyonne's recent acknowledgement of her undeniable should-be-gayness and in celebration of Women's History Month we're talking about some of our favorite should-be's.

    Episode Transcript

    Show Notes

    • Clip of Natasha Lyonne explaining that she should be gay
    • Brie Larson asking how to top lesbians: video and the article for more context
      • 30 min
    • A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal

      Surrealist artist Amie Pascal brings a queer lens to portraying and challenging representations of the body, blurring lines between reality and imagination while juxtaposing abject body horror with beauty. Her work expresses a universal rawness from a queer woman’s disabled embodiment in her new series ‘A Body Apart.’


      Some of the things we discussed

      • 00:10:11 - How the pandemic and long COVID changed her art
      • 00:18:21 - The use of vintage anatomical illustrations as reference material and the reclamation of marginalized bodies
      • 00:20:56 - Inspiration from filmmakers and women surrealists
      • 00:27:03 - The "real world" as a liminal and surreal space
      • 00:33:07 - Music pairings for each painting


        • Episode transcript


        Paintings we discussed specifically

        Not Much Left

        Right in the Back

        Dead Ringer I & Dead Ringer II (the other two paintings that feature L'Ange Anatomique)

        On the Other Side

        We Dare to Breathe (mentioned as "the heart and lungs")

        Moments of Clarity Are So Rare (mentioned as "the head with all of the veins")

        Infusion & Refusal (mentioned as "the grayscale images on the bright orange backgrounds")

        Eviscerated


        People and things we mentioned

        A Body Apart playlist

        Cambium Gallery

        Amie's Instagram

        Leonora Carrington (Britain & Mexico, account run by her grandson)

        Remedios Varo (Mexico)

        Léonor Fini (Argentina)


        Contemporary filmmakers and artists

        Céline Sciamma

        Michelle Garza Cervera

        Nadia Waheed

        Naudline Cluvie Pierre

        Daisy Parris

        María Fragoso


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        42 min
      • Aftersun (2022)

        Today we're processing our thoughts about Aftersun, a quietly stunning debut film, written and directed by Charlotte Wells.

        Some of the things we talk about include...

        • Memory and distance
        • Reflection and recording
        • Aging and growing up
        • Atypical tension
        • The dance scenes
        • Wells' short films
        • ...and more!

          • Episode transcript

          Charlotte Wells' short films

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          49 min
        • Portrait of a Lady on ChatGPT

          For this episode we have time-jumped once again! We're disguising ourselves as screenwriters and going into the near future to work with AI on some ✨BRAND NEW SAPPHIC FILMS✨. The future of lesbian cinema is here! And it is...still dealing with its identity and societal prejudices. Whomp whomp.


          Episode transcript

          Other terrible AI-generated sapphic film ideas

          26 min
        • Retourne-toi! Revisiting Podcast of a Lady on Fire

          We originally started this podcast whilst in the throes of a dizzying cinematic crush on Portrait of a Lady on Fire, so those early episodes are a time capsule of what that was like for us and others in Portrait Nation. (#womans #bathtube!) Today we're traveling back in time to revisit our former selves and see how we feel about those 2020 feels now, centuries later, in 2024.


          Episode transcript

          49 min
        • How to Add More Lesbian Chaos to Your Life: Lessons We Learned in 2023

          Something we hear a lot (we never hear this) is that everyone's lives were too calm in 2023, so we thought we'd share some of the ways we (mostly accidentally) added a whole bunch of lesbian chaos to our lives this year in case you'd like to spice things up next year.

          These strategies include:

          • Change work teams, then jobs, and move out of the city
          • Talk to queer strangers
          • Be a queer Snow White
          • Set up camp in a new place in the dark
          • Accumulate international bugs
          • Put on a queer talent show
          • Say yes to all queer art events

            • Episode transcript

            Show notes

            Lavender Phoenix

            Torreya Cummings Barbary Coast Keelhaul project


            34 min

          About Sapphic Culture Club

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          An exploration of lesbian themes in movies, TV, books, music, and more. (Formerly Podcast of a Lady on Fire.)