Currently watching: Violence! Magic! Adventure! Dogs!
Unflinching violence, millennials with magic, Carmen Sandiego, and dog groomers galore!
Netflix’s Biohackers: Badass Experiments, Sloppy Revenge
This German Nextflix show has a young woman fumbling her way through a revenge plot that takes place in a thrilling, demanding, fast-paced world of biohackers.
You Should Follow: The Papa Artist
A queer, trans-friendly artist who uses the prettiest colours to share art that is gender-affirming art, body positive, consent-focused, and calls for social justice activism.
Alta Mar: Glamour and Groping on the High Seas
This show is more glamourous and picturesque than it has any right to be. There’s murder, family drama, unrequited love, luxury cabins… and then there are the sexual assaults.
You Should Read: The Hitman’s Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love
Jackson and Leland’s story is basically a really funny, m/m version of Killing Eve. I will 2000% be listening to this again soon, just to laugh as openly and loudly as I did allll throughout this book.
Teddy Paints: Cheerful, wholesome, diverse Trans pride!
Theo’s art radiates Trans Pride. His cheerful, colourful work is expressly and joyously queer –a true celebration of the lgbtqia+ community.
Weekend Reads: Wonderful Romance Featuring Trans Characters
The impact that Penetration Test’s story (more specifically, its trans and HIV-positive characters) had on me is what inspired my reading life this weekend.
You Should Watch: The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia
I’m really excited that a generation of kids, Latinx and not, will enjoy this laugh-out-loud, bright and smart, swoon-worthy, upbeat and inspiring Netflix show for exactly what it is.
The Comfort Read I Didn’t Know I Needed: Better Than People by Roan Parrish
Charming, cozy, low-angst comfort with startlingly accurate anxiety rep, and a very relatably once-scorned-now-grumpy Romance hero.
An American Pickle: Modern Loneliness Meets Sentimental Entrepreneurship
An American Pickle shines with an unexpected sentimentality, and just-light-enough social commentary on the culture of ethical consumerism and viral media coverage.