The Queer Community Is Flourishing: HBO’s Full Bloom
HBO’s Full Bloom is a reality competition so filled with personal growth and uplifting spirits and a very ever-present essence of queerness.
Book Review: Tales from the Bottom of My Sole by David Kingston Yeh
This sequel to A Boy at the Edge of the World is just as gloriously delightful and brimming with the essence of life as the first in this series. I remain in awe of David Kingston Yeh’s writing.
Weekend Screens: Blackpink (plus Luca, Landscaping, Video Games) In Your Area!
Catching up on shows I wanted to start, and shows I’d been meaning to finally finish: Industry, Dare Me, Backyard Envy, We Are Who We Are, Fe@rless_, Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Body’, and the Blackpink Nextflix doc!
Currently watching: Violence! Magic! Adventure! Dogs!
Unflinching violence, millennials with magic, Carmen Sandiego, and dog groomers galore!
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.
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.
The Comfort Read I Didn’t Know I Needed: Better Than People by Roan Parrish
Better Than People is the charming, cozy, low-angst comfort read I didn’t know I needed. The anxiety rep is startlingly accurate, and Jack’s once-scorned-now-grumpy mood is relatable as heck.
Intergalactic Politics, Casual Queerness: The CW’s Pandora
Pandora has spaceships, intergalactic diplomacy, and so many action scenes with badass women in combat. They’re giving us queer rep and sex-positive vibes, and the guns go pew-pew!