We're queer, we're still here, we're just ready to be done with this year. Our break lasted a little longer than we planned, but nothing is going according to plan in 2020. Join us as we catch up on the good stuff, the bad stuff, the really bad

Pay It No Mind

Jun 28th, 2020 59m 41s

Marsha P. Johnson, Stormé DeLarverie. Sylvia Rivera. Just a few of the queer trailblazers that should be in every students' history books. This week as we weave through the lives of these incredible people and their long-lasting legacies, it's

Catching Up All The Light

Jun 21st, 2020 1h 4m

It didn't feel right to not pause this week and seek out some media that intentionally featured black queer stories, and we couldn't help but land on a movie that broke so much ground: Moonlight. At this juncture in our history, it feels so imp

Never Have I Ever

Jun 7th, 2020 1h 3m

The Four-Faced Liar was supposed to be our focus this week, but it takes a back burner as we discuss the things we’re all experiencing this week. It may be Pride month, but it's time to take Pride in a different movement: that of our black brot

90s Instrumental Lesbian Music

May 31st, 2020 1h 2m

We're back this week discussing Loving Annabelle in all its chain-smoking, prayer bead-wearing, hair-chopsticked glory. There's just one slight problem. Okay, one felony-sized problem. Join us as we break down boarding school, beach houses, bou

Taco Sausage

May 17th, 2020 58m 33s

We're back mid-Quarantine to discuss the first movie in a long time that made us feel whole: The Half of It. Letters, love triangles, long underwear - we ate it all up like taco sausage. We had to suspend our disbelief just a bit but it was tot

Harold, They're Lesbians

May 10th, 2020 1h 1m

We have a love/hate relationship with Carol. A high budget movie about lesbians with gorgeous actresses? Sign us up! A depressing story about the realities of the queer struggle? Ouch. Let’s navigate the struggles of Carol and Therese’s relatio

Just Hold My Hand

May 3rd, 2020 49m 21s

Do you Feel Good this week? Quarantine is still wreaking its havoc on everyone, but we take a break to find an oasis of feelings in Mae Martin's new Netflix show: Feel Good. Dating is hard, and finding true love can be even more difficult when

Back to Our Roots

Apr 19th, 2020 57m 5s

This week we're going back to our roots with the women who started it all - Jill, Helena, Sally, & Suranne. We dissect some of the information we learned and fawn over some of the stories we heard at ALBW Live, and we take every opportunity to

Mother Knows Best

Apr 12th, 2020 59m 5s

Throw caution to the wind and see what it's like to Kiss Jessica Stein this week as we explore a movie that's both heartwarming and problematic by turns. The most important lesson we learn here is that mom always knows what's going on, whether

COVID Coping

Apr 5th, 2020 58m 13s

We interrupt the podcast to bring you this breaking news. Much like everyone else on the planet, our lives have been materially interrupted and immeasurably impacted by the virus-which-shall-not-be-named. So whatever we had planned, we scrapped

Trackpants And Trust Falls

Mar 22nd, 2020 1h

If ever there were a time to curl up with a good old fashioned romantic comedy, surely now is the time. Saving Face is not only the nostalgic, feel-good flick we need these days, it's also a smart and cute AF film that brings up complicated iss

Getting Over The First Hump

Mar 15th, 2020 58m 4s

What happens when you mix a notoriously mind-bending show with a lesbian VR plot twist, add in one part Gugu Mbatha-Raw and one part Mackenzie Davis, then a splash of 80's music and a dash of shoulder pads? IT'S A RECIPE FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH. Th

Come Rub My Leg

Mar 1st, 2020 1h 6m

The Favourite brings us Rachel Weisz in the hottest shooting outfit we've ever seen, and we're into it. This movie is showy, ridiculous, and out there, but it also brings us heavy themes of manipulation and using love to get ahead. What kind of

Icebergs And Cassette Tapes

Feb 23rd, 2020 1h 4m

The '90s were tough for everyone, only made tougher if your secret high school same-sex love affair was discovered and ended up with you getting sent to conversion camp. We've never really shied away from discussing our gay pain, and The Misedu

Towanda.

Feb 16th, 2020 1h 3m

This week we're serving up Fried Green Tomatoes, and as you may have guessed, we count this film among our all-time faves. We know we're not the only ones out there with a longstanding soft spot in our hearts for Idgie and Ruth; we're not the o

One Last Plate of Mac and Cheese

Feb 2nd, 2020 1h 13m

How hot is Kate Mara? It turns out that she's extra hot when she's dancing to Mercy and involved in a complicated, modern-day Romeo and Juliet romance with Ellen Page. This week we're diving into My Days of Mercy, a gorgeous and complicated lov

Duty, Honor, & Spit

Jan 26th, 2020 1h

We're dishing 'Disobedience' this week and discussing why this film packs a gut punch almost as hard as Sally Wainwright. We'll chat about the chemistry between the two Rachels, the weirdness of having former friends feel like strangers. And t

You're a Wanker Number Nine

Jan 19th, 2020 1h 11m

This week we're veering back into our list of favorite lesbian/queer films and television series with a discussion of the 2006 romcom (aka romantic comedy) "Imagine Me and You." This movie was the first hopeful film either of us saw way back wh

The Sexpisode

Jan 12th, 2020 56m 58s

We're starting the new year with the topic that's on everyone's minds - SEX! Whether you're TeamAnn or TeamMariana, we can all agree that Gentleman Jack has caused a lot of thirst. So this week we jump back in and explore what representations o

Are You Still Talking?

Dec 22nd, 2019 51m 29s

We’re wrapping up the year and closing out the decade with a look back at where we were then, how far we’ve come now, and what’s on the horizon. We recap our favorite non-GJ tv shows, films, and pop culture moments from the last ten years, and

From Gen J to Gen Q: Part 2

Dec 15th, 2019 58m 37s

In part deux of our exploration of representation, we get to explore the first episode of The L Word: Generation Q as well as Work In Progress and their contrast to Gentleman Jack. We're gonna wrap up what this kind of representation means to u

From Gen(tleman) J to Gen Q: Part 1

Dec 8th, 2019 53m 15s

In advance of The L Word: Generation Q premiere tonight, we're breaking down what it is exactly about Gentleman Jack that makes it stand out to us in terms of queer representation - and what in turn we hope to see from new shows now that the ba

Where's a Rubberband When You Need One?

Dec 1st, 2019 1h 6m

This week we take our time machine back to 2004 - to a time when same-sex couples could only pick up a marriage license in two states, when it took 8 hours to torrent a one-hour episode of television, and when Mary and Leanne were trying to nav

Ask Us Anything

Nov 24th, 2019 1h 9m

This week the podcast goes AMA (ask me anything) style as we answer questions posed by our listeners. We tackle all the hard hitting issues such as: What kinds of cars would the Ann(e)s be driving these days? Does everyone else imagine Rachel W