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Welcome to episode 10 of season 3! Thank you to the listeners who emailed us their hot take submissions, as it allowed us to shit talk that awful Tik Tok song (“hey mom… I like boys too… I’m not a full on raging lezbo—“ ew), discuss the efficacy of men directing lesbian movies (re: Mulholland Drive, Disobedience, The Handmaiden vs. Below Her Mouth, Blue is the Warmest Color, etc.), and puzzle over the NYPost article about ‘lesbian fashion’, supposedly becoming cool. Renaissance brings up The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Sunny alludes to the YA novel Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (which we discuss in episode 6 of season 3). Next, we sing the praises of the 2019 Natasha Lyonne TV show, Russian Doll, and Sunny references a video essay (that Renaissance didn’t watch…) by lady the knight brave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIFPNbiUJS4 delineating the many themes of trauma, feminism, and humor of this Netflix original series. We greatly anticipate the second season!!! Finally, Renaissance recommends another Netflix exclusive piece of media, Hannah Gadsby’s stand up comedy show Nanette, and Sunny recommends the movie Tully (2017) and the recently released contemporary romance novel Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake. Thanks for joining us for this episode, and you can find us on twitter, instagram, Tik Tok, and letterboxd if you want to connect! Send your hot takes to [email protected].

Katie and Madyson of The Archers podcast join us to discuss the lovely emails we get from our listeners and talk about the Gaylor internet! Then, we go through our top ten Taylor Swift songs of all time (not set in stone, of course) and all of our queer, personal, literary interpretations of them. Songs off of evermore, folklore, reputation, Lover, 1989, Red (Taylor's Version), Speak Now, and debut all make features, Kaylor and Karlie Kloss, Swiftgron and Dianna Agron, and Joe Alwyn all make cameos in our discussions, of course. Undeniable sapphism, lesbianism, and queerness in Taylor's work is sooooo evident...! Emily Dickinson and Sue Gilbert are namedropped. In discussing the development of our relationship to Taylor Swift and her music over the course of our lives, Katie talks about being a massive Kanye fan in high school, Madyson mentions accidental gaylor interpretations, and Renaissance gushes over Katie being happily married to her fellow gaylor swiftie wife. We talk more in depth about reputation on The Archers, where Sunny and Renaissance make guest appearances, so check that out if you haven't already!

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BONUS EPISODE ON HBO EUPHORIA'S SEASON 2 FINALE UP ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/join/TheLavenderMenace Welcome to episode 8 of season 3! Here is a comma separated, hopefully exhaustive list of things we discuss: "tankies," the misuse of the word "nuance," debunking the idea of “state capitalism,” (books referenced- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Blood In My Eye by George Jackson, Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah, The Unfree Origins Of American Capitalism by Seth Rockman, Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Stalin), the silliness of a sapphic Tik Tok about the oppression of bottoms, "you're so valid" etc, opposing the gender trinary, material reality of gendered oppression, the new Netflix lesbian short film Heart Shot is kind of corny, Void dir. Emma Seligman, D.E.B.S., Leading Lady Parts, Shiva Baby, Recicatif (in reference to discussing Passing on season 3 episode 3), adaptations, Arrival and Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life and Others, Asali Solomon's new novel The Days of Afrekete. Bonus episode on The Watermelon Woman available for Patrons soon! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, Letterboxd, and YouTube for extra The Lavender Menace slay, and you can email us your hot takes to discuss at [email protected]!

The opening question for Season 3 Episode 7: do you say "Sunny and Renaissance" or "Renaissance and Sunny"??? Following our typical three part structure, we discuss a listener submitted hot take, a movie we watched together, and recommend each other media. Our lovely patron Elle (we appreciate our patrons so much!! https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace) submitted a hot take about misandry, which led Sunny to bring up Men’s Rights Activists groups working on twisting civil rights law. You can find more info about what Sunny is talking about in this article: https://jezebel.com/men-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-on-campuses-are-suing-1848347194. Then, we discuss white women and misandry, and recommend the books They Were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rogers and Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall. We go on to discuss the movie The Birth of a Nation, transmisogyny, and getting discriminated against for an identity you don't even hold. Renaissance complains more about male feminists and the desire for oppressed groups to have all the answers. For our shared media portion of the episode, we discuss Saving Face (2004) Alice Wu, which we mentioned in our previous episode. We compare our Letterboxd star ratings, and Sunny compares the movie to Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, and Wu's other movie The Half of It . Finally, Renaissance recommends HBO’s Big Little Lies, and Sunny recommends the books The Perks of Loving A Wallflower by Erica Ridley and Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Thank you for being a listener! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, Letterboxd, and Patreon at The Lavender Menace Podcast.

Episode 6 of our 3rd season- in which we discuss hot takes about reading theory, fanfiction, the split attraction model, sex work, and tumblr queers. Sunny reads some excerpts from Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici to make some points about Marxist feminism. Renaissance has finally effectively forced Sunny into watching Phoebe Waller Bridge's TV series Fleabag, because there's been a recent internet phenomenon of people talking about being in their "Fleabag era." Clearly, media literacy is something many people lack. In return, Sunny forced Renaissance to read Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, a young adult historical lesbian romance novel. Renaissance recommends the new Disney animated movie Encanto (we love to hate on Lin-Manuel Miranda- as we should) in the vein of generational family stories, and Sunny recommends the We Set The Dark On Fire duology by Tehlor Kay Mejia in the vein of sapphic YA novels. Become a patron and get early access and exclusive content from us: https://patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace! Send us your hot takes to discuss on future episodes at [email protected]! Or message/tweet/shout us out on social media, @TheLavenderPod on Twitter and @TheLavenderMenacePod on Instagram and Tik Tok. Much lesbian love and socialist solidarity!

Disclaimer: this episode was recorded back in November of 2021, but we said what we said! We respond to a listener's negative experiences with male entitlement (trigger warning for sexual harassment) as well as their hot take on the Madonna/Whore dynamic in relationship to lesbianism. This listener's message was a delight to go through, and Renaissance really saw themself in their email. To sum up our advice- you will learn and grow and change, and current high school sapphic listeners should apply to historically women's college if they're considering going to college. For the media analysis portion of the pod, Renaissance reveals being a long time Adele stan, but Sunny is a bit more of a reluctant listener. As usual with our album reviews, we rank the songs on 30 from least enjoyed to most enjoyed, and while everything we said in this episode still stands, keep in mind that these were our fresh reactions and our thoughts on the album have settled and ruminated over time. And as usual, we make comparative analyses to Taylor Swift. (We are diehard swiftie gaylors and that's the truth!) For the final third part of the podcast where we recommend each other media, Sunny pitches The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw, a short story collection about various Black women's experiences in loose relationship to their churches. Renaissance recommends Adele's debut album 19 for its parallels to her current work. You can support The Lavender Menace podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace. Follow us on socials for updates and extra content, @thelavendermenacepod on Tik Tok and Instagram, @thelavenderpod on Twitter and Letterboxd. Sunny can be found discussing books on YouTube and Twitter at a sunny book nook, and Renaissance can be reached at @renaissancemarie on Instagram and Tik Tok, and @rxnaissance on Twitter.

Welcome to episode 4 of season 3 of The Lavender Menace podcast! Today we will be recapping our past year of podcasting- the journey we've been on from starting season 1 in April to being in the midst of season 3 now, in January of 2022. But first, we respond to some of our listener submitted hot takes. (You can email your hot takes to us for us to respond on the pod at [email protected] btw.) We demolish the Camilla Cabello x Shawn Mendes PR relationship, delineate clockability of gayness vs. the fake term "queer passing," and patriarchy and transmisogyny within the context of "the queer community." We discuss homosociality, the contrast between performative queerness and innate queerness, and sapphic vs. gay social realities. In our overview of the year, we reminisce upon the biphobia cancellation(s) and our favorite episodes and media consumed in 2021, as well as our intentions and purpose behind creating this podcast in the first place. Our podcast creator Spotify Wrapped stats are mind blowing- we have over 15k followers on Spotify! This, in contrast to our humble beginnings, shocks us and we are grateful for everyone involved in our little community, whether you listen to us casually or follow us on all social media platforms. Speaking of, you can find us on Tik Tok and Instagram @thelavendermenacepod, and follow us on Twitter and Letterboxd @thelavenderpod! Support us directly and get exclusive/early access content (this episode was released 3 days earlier!!) on Patreon.com/thelavendermenace. Thanks so much for an incredible 2021, can't wait for an even more amazing 2022 of the pod.

It's Taylor Swift's birthday, and as leaders in the gaylor swiftie community, it is our public duty to bring to you a SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE!!! who cheered who clapped who screamed? Thanks so much to Tayo (@starshineclay on twitter) for bullying us into recording this last minute. We ranked every Taylor Swift album, gave our percentage of songs we love versus the rest of the songs on each album, and harshly judged every single era Miss Swift has undergone. Get more (exclusive!) banter about Taylor's music by joining us on Patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace. Hit us up with your hot takes to be featured on future episodes! Email them to us [email protected], tweet them to us @thelavenderpod, DM us on Instagram @thelavendermenacepod, subscribe to our YouTube, and stalk our TikTok @thelavendermenacepod! We appreciate you so much for being here.

Some scintillating takes for listeners on season 3's episode 3 of The Lavender Menace! Including but not limited to: are "fake bisexuals" real/bad/an issue? (Short answer is no. The issue is always heterosexism.) Is Taylor Swift a good person? Are Letterboxd reviewers the worst? Renaissance and Sunny fervently defend Taylor Swift's album 'Reputation' in response to our 17 year old gaylor listener's hot take submission, discuss the political implications of her potential "coming out" (which we argue, has already occurred), and how she operates as an artist in the world we live in. After the regularly scheduled hot take portion of the pod, Renaissance discusses how the recently released Rebecca Hall adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing, available on Netflix, portrays inter-community Black issues in a nuanced and intelligent way that many audience members are seeming to miss. Sunny looks at Passing from a comparative analysis perspective as someone who read and loved the classic Harlem Renaissance book the film is based on. In cross-referencing fictionalized experiences to real life people's history, as recorded in the seminal nonfiction book Black Metropolis by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton Jr.'s chapter 7, titled "Crossing The Color Line" (available to read for free on Archive.org), Sunny and Renaissance discuss the historical and pop cultural relevancy of the questions Passing brings up about racial identity, visibility and Blackness, and the legitimate unique racial experiences regarding cross-cultural and boundary crossing that people experience. Renaissance also compares the experience of watching the film to reading the Toni Morrison short story, Recitatif, in their similar authorial manipulation of racial perception for the narratives' consumer. And transitioning into the regularly scheduled third part of the podcast, Sunny recommends the semi recently released and critically acclaimed Brit Bennet novel The Vanishing Half, which follows two sisters over the course of their lives and the varying racial experiences they have as white passing Black women in 20th century American society. Renaissance recommends the movie Aimée and Jaguar (1999) dir. Max Färberböck for the lesbian period piece goodness of it all, as well as its portrayal of the dynamics and contradictions of racial/ethnic perception in the context of another 20th century caste society- Nazi Germany.

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Happy Red (Taylor's Version) release everyone! We are so excited to share our thoughts on the All Too Well (1o minute version) short film and our ranking of the album in episode 2 season 3 of The Lavender Menace podcast. But before Sunny and Renaissance get into all that, we discuss three (3!) of y'all's hot takes that answer the following questions: is compulsory heterosexuality a lesbian exclusive experience? (Short answer, yes.) How are millennial cis bisexual white women the most delusional people alive? (Other "leftist" podcast hosts have such shitty takes, unlike us...) Why do y'all bully minors over the most ridiculous things? (You need to deprogram yourself from imperialist propaganda.) After our hot takes, we discuss all our Taylor Swift thoughts now that we've listened to Red TV and watched her directorial debut of the short film featuring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien. We defend her against white feminist allegations, queercode her work as always, and contextualize the re-release of this seminal album within her career. Finally, we give each other quick recommendations, Renaissance's Scenes of a Marriage and Sunny's Spencer, one of which will be the basis for our next episode! Hint hint.

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