Sapphic Culture Club

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CHAOTIC BONUS: a supercut of every reaction from our Bottoms watchalong Apr 19, 2024

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On a whim, we decided to see what it’d be like if we removed all the silence from our previous Bottoms watchalong episode.

Remember our GaySMR segment from Season 2? Well, welcome to CHAOSMR.

Bottoms (2023) Discussion and Watchalong! Apr 05, 2024

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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.)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Mar 22, 2024

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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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"I should be gay." Mar 08, 2024

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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

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Clip of Natasha Lyonne explaining that she should be gay
Brie Larson asking how to top lesbians: video and the article for more context

A Body Apart with artist Amie Pascal Feb 23, 2024

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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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Aftersun (2022) Feb 09, 2024

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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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Portrait of a Lady on ChatGPT Jan 29, 2024

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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.

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Other terrible AI-generated sapphic film ideas

Retourne-toi! Revisiting Podcast of a Lady on Fire Jan 25, 2024

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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.

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Friends & Family Christmas (Watchalong and Review) Dec 29, 2023

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We watched the new lesbian Christmas movie.

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Where to watch:

Hallmark Channel

Philo

Peacock

How to Add More Lesbian Chaos to Your Life: Lessons We Learned in 2023 Dec 15, 2023

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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: