Welcome to season 3 of The Lavender Menace! Today we are forgoing our typical three part structure to complain about recent allegations, internet happenings, online battles... Sunny is in their reputation era again, thanks to overly online bisexuals accusing Sunny of being overly online while flooding them with violent online harassment. As Sunny's number one defender (and number one hater,) Renaissance talks about the overwhelming whiteness involved with people getting angry over lesbians speaking the obvious. We reference season 1 episode 4 throughout this episode, so if you haven't listened to that one yet, you should do that! We talk about how lesbophobia is the legitimate unique amalgamation of systemic oppression people seem to think biphobia is, and break down every single talking point we've been seeing floating around due to the accidental launching of this round of LGBTQ discourse. Renaissance discusses how the internet phenomenon of hating on reading theory and complex, necessary vocabulary usage is frustrating as hell, we rant about the ridiculousness of accusing Sunny being a TERF or transphobic in their talking points, and how nothing Sunny or Renaissance said was wrong. Much love to our listeners who've supported us through the insanity of the past several weeks of getting collectively dogpiled on. Thank you so much to our Patreon patrons as well, we appreciate you so much. If you want the Patreon exclusive video edition of this episode where you can see Sunny wear their Taylor Swift official merch folklore shirt (which is pictured in this episode's cover art, as well as Renaissance's painting of The Lavender Menace logo on a tote bag, and screen caps of the shit we've been going through...) and drink copious amounts of tea in between yelling, cackling, and ranting, go subscribe! Pledges start as low as $5 a month, with more exclusive content the higher up your pledges are :)

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We have arrived at the end of season 2, and it's time for us to talk about the media that made us the crazy bitches/mean lesbians/critical media consumers we are. But first, we respond to your lovely emails (thank you to everyone reaching out to us! Please continue to do this! Email us with your hot takes and at[email protected]) and give a listener our thoughts on what her art thesis project about queerness should entail. Then we discuss some of the media that we were obsessed with as children- Renaissance and Sunny's experiences diverge in many ways, from our social lives and the gendered experiences we had, to our relationships to social media and internet access. However, we both had very cringe fandom moments, of course. Finally, we recommend our childhood favorites to each other. Sunny recommends the young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universeby Benjamin Alire Saenz and Renaissance recommends the 2002 Chicago movie musical directed by Rob Marshall. Connect with us individually on Instagram (@renaissancemarie @sunnywithacamera, follow us so when we go live together you can be an active participant!) or our Youtube channels, Renaissance Marie and a sunny book nook, respectively. You can find both of us being unhinged on our joint Twitter account @thelavenderpod, subscribe to our Youtube channel The Lavender Menace, and become a patron at patreon.com/thelavendermenace for early access and exclusive content! Thank you to our lovely patrons. We'll be back every two weeks with new episodes for season 3. See you in our next episode to kick off our next season!

Hey everyone! Sorry for our unintended and unannounced one month break, but the podcast is back on!!! Here is episode 9 of season 2 that we recorded back in August when Renaissance and Sunny were both in St. Louis and saw the Hannah Wilke exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (more info here: https://pulitzerarts.org/art/hannah-wilke/) together, amidst doing many other things frolicking around Sunny's hometown. We discuss our thoughts on Wilke's multi-media art for the media analysis portion of the episode, and respond to your nice emails as our hot-take portion. We do fervently agree that Lover is a deeply underrated and under-appreciated Taylor Swift album, of course. For the recommendations part of this episode, Sunny recommends The Suicide Squad- the sequel- because it has surprisingly anti imperialist messaging, which lines up with DC's portrayal of Harley Quinn in the cartoon show as well. US military collaboration in superhero films and media a topic of discussion once again! Renaissance recommends Faye Webster's 2019 album Atlanta Millionaire' Club, her dream pop vibes giving Lorde but lighter. Thank you all so much for your lovely emails and messages and interactions on socials for the past over a month or so we haven't dropped a full episode, it's been tiding us over during our hyper-busy eras which have left you all, our dear The Lavender Menace listeners, in a content drought :( Although we did drop the unedited version of this video/episode early in September for our Patreon subscribers! BTW subscribe to us on Patreon.com/thelavendermenace for patron exclusive content, early access to episodes, merch, and other fun stuff. We deeply apologize for our absence and hope to hear from you soon in our email inbox ([email protected]) or on Twitter (@thelavenderpod)!! Missing seeing your proposed hot take submissions...! 🍑🍊🕊🌸🍄🍓🍒🍇♥️

Welcome to episode 8 of season 2 of The Lavender Menace, where your cohosts Sunny and Renaissance are finally in the same city, house, room! Our sunnaissance in St. Louis era has been documented extensively on @thelavenderpod on Twitter, our personal Twitters (@asunnybooknook & @rxnaissance), and Renaissance's Instagram @renaissancemarie, if you want to go check that out... anyways today we discuss Lorde's highly anticipated third album, Solar Power. As usual with music (re: our SOUR review episode), Renaissance is a hater and Sunny loves it. Then, we discuss a listener submitted hot take from Jules about the discourse going on with Twitter fighting about Hasan, a "socialist' internet streamer, buying a multimillion dollar house in Los Angelos, and consider the impossible future of this podcast blowing up and becoming rich. Basically, we are Hasan haters and Alexis @lexi4prez on Twitter stans. We watched Assassination Nation (2018) directed by Sam Levinson and have thoughts about the hypersexualization of teenage girlhood, American fascist violence, and the melodrama of cinema about high schoolers. Finally, for recommendations, Sunny recommends the translated book An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten, and Renaissance recommends the movie 9 to 5 (1980) directed by Bruce Gilbert. For the video version of this podcast episode as well as early access to content (and exclusive content! Like our gift exchange...!), subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace

Hello swifties/gaylors/our fellow mentally ill sapphics obsessed with a 5'10 blonde Sagittarius, Today we are blind reacting (kinda) to a listener submitted gaylor blind item blog post (link here: https://girlsandgaylors.tumblr.com/post/187281985680/gaylor-blind-items-2014-now) from @ariesgodmother on instagram for our hot take portion of the podcast, then discussing the novella Many A Little Makes by Sarah Shen-lien Bynam in The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/novellas/many-a-little-makes submitted by @whataoife on Twitter, and finally recommendations, as always. Renaissance recommends the classic 1991 movie Thelma and Louise, and Sunny recommends the upcoming Sally Rooney release Beautiful World Where Are You. Follow us on Twitter @thelavenderpod for live updates and more gaylor shitposting! Message us on socials or email us at [email protected] with your hot take for the chance to be featured in our next episode. Support the pod by becoming a patron at patreon.com/thelavendermenace!

On this week's installment of Sunny and Renaissance's regularly scheduled three part podcast of a submitted hot take, joint media consumption, and personalized recommendations for each other, your favorite lesbian communists exhibit their bimboism in regards to professional sports but ultimately comes to the conclusion that like capitalism, they must be abolished! Thank you to @scissorclown on Twitter for this scathing hot take. Then we rant and scream and cry and yell and stomp over the absolute wildness that is the 2020 indie drama Kajillionaire directed by Miranda July, whom we definitely think is a genius. This unconventional heist movie about family, money, survival, love, intimacy, emotional neglect, queerness and mentally ill lesbians with mommy issues....! Yeah we are a bit blown away. Finally, Sunny recommends the novel Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung-Frazier in how it has the same weirdly hyper specific scenario x brilliant queer energy of Kajillionaire, and Renaissance recommends the campy 2004 movie D.E.B.S. directed by Angela Robinson (the director of Renaissance's favorite movie, Professor Marsten and the Wonder Woman).

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Welcome to episode 5 of season 2 of The Lavender Menace podcast, where we, smart lesbian communists of color, discuss hot takes about communism lesbianism and everything fun sexy and cool, consume and discuss queer media, and recommend books movies and TV shows to each other. Today we are joined by the lovely Nour, whom you might recognize from lesbian film milf stan twitter @abitallie! Our lovely listener Ruhi submitted some meme hot takes for us to discuss from the instagram account @themcel.pill, in which we discuss the fluidity and individuality of queer identity versus the solidity and reality of lesbianism. For the second part of the episode we discuss the Hulu original series This Way Up and the disappointing lesbophobia in season 2. Sunny still can't watch TV but they for sure tried! For media recommendations, Renaissance recommends Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and has thoughts on the racial and economic implications of the popularity of revolutionary figures in media, and on a lighter note also recommends the lesbian classic Desert Hearts (1985) which they attempted to make Sunny watch months ago. Nour recommends the movie Nell (1994) as a lighthearted 2.7 Letterboxd stars watch, and Sunny recommends the short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw published in 2020.

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Welcome to episode 4 of The Lavender Menace Podcast season 2, where we bring ourselves back to our podcast roots- generally being frustrated at leftist internet discourse started by people who don't read and have no true understanding of what Marxism even is, and then ranting about Taylor Swift's genius for an hour. The Tik Tok Sunny complains about for the hot take is inaccessible because the creator went on private, but otherwise it would have been linked here. Also, love yourself and go read The State and Revolution by Lenin! https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ Sunny reads an excerpt of it in the hot take section of this episode. Renaissance and Sunny also mention Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis, and Walter Rodney as revolutionaries who shouldn't just be put on a pedestal, but also have their work and writing and ideas be engaged with seriously. For the second part of the podcast, as always, we discuss a shared piece of media that we both consumed, and this past week it was an Apple Music interview of Taylor Swift that you can find on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/CQacWbsLbS4 While most interviews of Taylor Swift frustrate both Renaissance and Sunny in how the interviewer often is disrespectful of Taylor as an artist and is treated less seriously simply because she makes very popular music for primarily an audience of young women, this particular interview by Zane Lowe really tickled our fancy. Clearly, since we talked about it for hours off the pod and could talk about it for hours on the pod. As always, our media recommendations for this week will be linked on our pinned twitter thread (follow us on twitter @thelavenderpod!) Sunny recommends the short story The Summer People by Kelly Link, and Renaissance recommends the show Fossy/Verdon.

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Spoiler warnings for this episode: Black Widow (2021) & Zola (2021)

Your favorite lesbian comedy entertainment criticism Aries/Cancer duo back with some scathing opinions on the MCU aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe as outsiders who occasionally partake, our thoughts on the latest hottest A24 movie everyone is talking about, and ramblings about the logical and political fallacies of superhero stories. Re: we don't like girlbosses whose stories function as capitalist, pro-military, pro-imperialist, generally liberal propaganda with weak, shallow themes of morality and 'feminism.'

Our recommendations this week:This Way Up from Renaissance and Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots from Sunny!

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Discussing a wonderful listener's emailed hot take about I Care A Lot (2021), in which Renaissance defends their love for morally reprehensible women in fictional media and Sunny recommend Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Ellie Cosimano as an alternative piece of media to I Care A Lot (2021) that is intentionally camp and funny thriller about a morally gray woman that is actually written by a woman and not a corny man with even cornier politics. Then we discuss Taylor Swift's latest song, which is a feature. on Big Red Machine's single 'Renegade.' We are both obsessed with it, of course. Finally, Renaissance recommends a throwback classic movie- The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Sunny recommends the sci-fi fantasy novella Yellow Jessamine by Caitlin Starling.

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