January 2011
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Stuck on "Stick It!"
[K] So last week I wrote (not too enthusiastically) about this little film, in which women do crazy shit to their bodies, try to upstage each other and need a little extra-help to find their place in the world. Judging from my review you might have been under the impression that I have a general problem with this kind of movie - that, however, would be a false assumption.
Obviously they...
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The Xenaverse
[B] Last weekend the 16th Xena convention took place in Los Angeles. And as far as I am concerned there are at least 16 more years coming up with Xena conventions, Xena fanfic, Xena action figures, Xena bedding, Xena calenders and Xena what-so-evers.
Anyways … what I want to share with you today is some more footage dealing with the phenomenon of Xena, the warrior princess. We all know...
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Vintage Butch of the Week - Diane Arbus
[K] Since everyone really seemed to like last week’s non-fictional Vintage Butch of the Week, Mercdes de Acosta, and because I aim to please, you’ll get another vintage butch this week which didn’t spring from somebody’s imagination, but someone’s actual … nether regions.
“Two Friends at home, NYC” by Diane Arbus
“Friends at Central...
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“Don’t Be A Drag -
Just Be a Queen”
– Lady Gaga gave Perez Hilton permission today to post the opening lyrics of the upcoming single release Born This Way. And what can I say? This little monster isn’t any less excited now - can’t it be Feb 13 soon, please?
Speaking of drag … I would never miss an opportunity to post...
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I'll do my best Swan Dive ...
[K] At the risk of alienating most of our followers and every single AfterEllen-reader who may visit us here, I have to utter an unconvenient truth:
Black Swan is crap.
Sorry for that, but someone had to say it!
Anyway, if you’re still reading: that’s great! Thanks for being patient, let me try to explain, which observations lead to this rather unpopular conclusion:
When people...
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[B] and [K] watch 'Black Swan'
[B]: That must hurt.
[K]: God, no, don't do this!
[B]: Can I look?
[K]: How would I know, my head is between your shoulder and your seat ... the good news- no blood or black feathers around here.
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[B]: Not the fingers.
[K]: Seriously, stop it ... ouch. Am I grabbing your arm to tight?
[B]: No blood, no glory!
[K]: True ... wait, urgh, the bunny ... and the mother ... urgh
[B]: WTF?
[K]: Saddest masturbation ever.
[B]: Well, film is not yet over!
[K]: I am painfully aware of .... wait... no, please, stop that! My eyes!
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(More elaborate thoughts on the pseudo-deep trainwreck called 'Black Swan' later today.)
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Vintage Butch of the Week - Mercedes de Acosta
[K] It’s kind of a last minute thing, but still, I couldn’t let this week end without introducing you to a new Vintage Butch of the Week, could I?
To make up for the rather late posting, I chose an actual historic person instead of a fictional characater, and a true heroine of mine: Mercedes de Acosta (born 1893).
Leaving a trail of broken...
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Dragapella - The Kinsey Sicks
[B] The Kinsey Sicks are definitely worth your attention. They made my day … funny and beautiful. Enjoy!
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Super Mamika
[B] Super Mamika is a photo series by french photographer Sacha Goldberger. He turned his 91 year-old grandmother (Frederika Goldberger) into a superhero to give her a new challenge in her old age. I’d say mission accomplished!
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Plan B from Outer Space
Trailer for Madeleine Olnek’s Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, which will premiere at Sundance Film Festival (where I won’t be, which sucks).
[K] Who knew dysfunctional wymen-loving could be fun? It seems like the extraterrestials knew it could be, since Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same looks like it might actually be lots of fun - at least as long as we...
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Vintage Butch of the Week - "Women's Barracks"
[K] For this week’s vintage butch, we turn away from the big screen to small books - books so small and cheap, you could leave them on a train or a bus, when you were through with them, either because you didn’t care to take them home … or you didn’t dare.
I am, of course, talking about the infamous pulp novels of the 1950’s. At the time book publishers tried to...
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WatchHeather Peace’s nice little home
[B] News from Heather Peace … enjoy!
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“It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time...”
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Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (19)
[K] This can only mean two things:
less procrastinating
more posts on Jeanette Winterson
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Scream Club
[B] What a weekend: car karaoke, queerBeats festival & car karaoke. Ok I try to stop being cryptic. [K] & I went to the queerBeats festival this weekend and had the pleasure to enjoy several great bands and djs. This year’s programm included not only great music but also a sound lecture performed by Sonja Eismann and Christiane Erharter. Their lectures, based on Born in Flames,...
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Thank You! (And my hairdresser)
[K] This is awesome:
Or to be more precise: YOU, dear followers, are awesome!
Thanks for reading and (hopefully) enjoying our little place of random ramblings, queer queries and selected sources of sexiness.
There are no words to express our celebratory feelings, but … those of Cher:
Happy Weekend, y’all!
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“I believe that Lady Gaga is a genius, that Justin Bieber is a lesbian and that...”
– [K] This and other equally hilarious and bright versions of the often mis- and absued “I believe in …”-statement can be found in Judith Halberstam Credo: What the Wild Things know, which also states:
I think we should abolish English departments, change disciplines every few...
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Vintage Butch of the Week - "Aliens"
[K] In my effort to bring back glorious butches from the pop cultural past, let me introduce you today to Private J. Vasquez, played by Jenette Goldstein, in Aliens - the sequel to the horror-sci/fi-film that made us all fall in love with Ellen Ripley/Sigourney Weaver.
Snow White, this is Private J. Vasquez. -
Private J. Vasquez, this is Snow White.
I know generalizations are tricky, but let...
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Homosexual Agenda - Education & Family Affairs
[B+K] butch-in-progress proudly presents its new educational video concerning life planning and family affairs. As you know we revealed the hitherto secret homosexual agenda in September, announcing But I’m a Cheerleader as our video-cure for heterosexual tendencies in the susceptible young and naive.
This new video from John Waters’ Female Trouble can be seen as an alternative for...
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Lesbian cars according to pop culture
[B] All lesbians are driving pickup trucks. Especially every ‘real’ butch has to do so. That’s probably one of the big fairytales about lesbians and their most loved vehicles. Reason enough for me to start this huge research-project about lesbians and their cars in film and televison.
Well … here it is, the first car, who had guessed: a pickup truck. Do you remember this...
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Dance, Girl, Dance
[K] I honored Dorothy Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance before, but I’ll have to do it again - only this time the focus is not so much on Arzner’s achievements as one of Hollywoods first female directors, but simply as someone, who made girls dance in front of a camera. And that, at least in my book, is always a good idea.
Whether it’s a drunken dance party (maybe best...
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