BSG #97: Georgia Croissant / The Pairing

September 3, 2024 The Squad

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Spider-Man Still Rules: Across the Spider-Verse

July 5, 2023 Kelli, Mary, and Emily

Mary: I’m SO pleased to be talking about the follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s been difficult waiting these past few years for Across the Spider-Verse because the first one was an absolute favorite of mine. I saw it in theaters 3 times, forcing different people to go with me each time.

Queer Girl Book Club: Briefly, A Delicious Life

February 3, 2023 Kelli & Emily

Kelli: Happy New Year! I’m allowed to say that through the end of January, right?

Emily: I say ‘til the end of February. Let people ease into 2023. Haven’t we earned that?

Kelli: We may be a little late, but better late than never, and we are finally ready to discuss Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens. I picked this book because we love queer ghost stories here, and I’m also a fan of queer historical fiction (girls kissing but it’s not ALLOWED? Sign me up). This one also sparked my interest in that it’s actually from the perspective of the ghost, which is something we don’t get all that often. Ghost stories are scary because ghosts are unknown, and with that element removed, a ghost story turns into something melancholic rather than horrifying.

How did you feel about the way this book approached ghosts?

Queer Girl Book Club: The Memory Librarian

July 9, 2022 Kelli & Emily

Kelli: Hello and welcome to an extremely belated edition of Queer Girl Book Club! This month (or last month? Or maybe the month before that, who is to say?) we read The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae. The collection is an expansion of the Afrofuturistic universe Monae initially explored in their 2018 studio album, Dirty Computer, and features five stories written alongside five different collaborators: Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Eve L. Ewing, Yohanca Delgado, and Sheree Renée Thomas.

So, the obvious place to start is with Janelle Monae, right? How familiar are you with their work, and were you a fan of Dirty Computer? Bonus Q: have you watched any of the “emotion picture” released alongside the album?

(Note: Janelle Monae uses they/them and she/her pronouns. For the purposes of this article, we’ll be using they/them)

Othersode #67: Sometimes You Only Have So Many Voices Inside You / I Kissed Shara Wheeler

June 6, 2022 The Squad

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Queer Girl Book Club: Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body

January 26, 2022 Kelli & Emily

Kelli: Hello friends! Welcome back to Queer Girl Book Club. For our first QGBC pick of 2022, Emily and I read Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks. This book is a wild ride and I’m super excited to get into it, but first, a content warning: we will be discussing the book’s extensive exploration of disordered eating, so if that’s something you are uncomfortable with, maybe skip this one. Also: spoilers to follow!

Queer Girl Book Club: You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

October 6, 2021 Kelli & Emily

Kelli: Hello and welcome back to Queer Girl Book Club! I’m your host, Kelli. Just kidding, this is a blog post.

This month we’re talking about You Exist Too Much, the debut novel by Zaina Arafat. The story follows a Palestinian-American young woman as she navigates her twenties. Our narrator is never named, which I only noticed about halfway through the book. I thought to myself, ‘what’s her name again?’ and then flipped through for a while before I realized she didn’t have one. I was surprised, I guess because I felt like I knew her so well already. So I guess a good way to start this discussion is to ask: how did you feel about the narrator?

(Spoilers to follow)

Album Review: Lucy Dacus' Home Video Delivers

July 4, 2021 Kelli

On June 25th, Lucy Dacus released Home Video, her third studio album. I’ve been a fan of Dacus since I heard her first single back in 2016, “I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore,” a song which explores the niche yet relatable experience of being the “funny one” and how that impacts one’s sense of identity. I was so taken by that song in particular that I began following her career in earnest, and she has yet to disappoint. I was obsessed with her sophomore album, Historian—I think I’ve listened to the song “Night Shift” over 100 times at this point—and I’m also a big fan of Boygenius, the sad!queer supergroup Dacus formed with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers.

Needless to say, I was fully primed to love her new album, and I’m pleased to report that it still managed to exceed my expectations. With Home Video, Dacus shifts the lens from the present to focus on her suburban Christian upbringing in Richmond, Virginia, and how those memories and romantic entanglements inform the person she’s become. It’s a crush of nostalgia, confusion, naivete and burgeoning queerness, and it’s proof that Dacus has hit her stride.

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