The Lavender Menace

Sinners (2025) review + loving the arts & authenticity

Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal album review/ranking (CONTROVERSIAL!!!!) + the liberal arts aren't for everyone

Not everyone can be a feminist! (bell hooks shade) + documenting gay life in Michelle Tea's Against Memoir

We hate AI, ‘futch,’ & Spotify Wrapped

Communism is the only answer!!! + Ranking & reviewing Sabrina Carpenter's Short 'n Sweet

Kamala lost & it's Democrats' fault. Stop blaming leftists for not voting for a genocidairess

brat review + song ranking (we love gay people & queer history soooo much)

can straight people say "queer?" stanning Chappell Roan, criticizing Cowboy Carter

Lesbian books (sorry, F/F romance novels) suck! But "Kissing Jessica Stein" (2001) is brilliant

Ethics of media piracy, gender essentialism & “male feminists,” Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

2023 movies, music, & books in review: our favorites & flops

Misogyny on the left, lesbian dating apps, Barbie (2023) thoughts & review

Lesbians for a Free Palestine

No more male artists!!! 🤬 Who can identify as femme? 🤔 Also contemporary cinema flopping... 🙊

Speak Now (Gaylor's Version) ranking & review, re-recordings/"Taylor's Version" & building narrative

postmodern gender identities, anti-Zionism/pinkwashing, 90s feminism & 90s girlypop film

Politics of media consumption & comparing two queer American literature class syllabuses

Why you're wrong about gaylor, problems with 'sapphic spaces,' & lesbian feminist legacies

top/bottom roles in lesbian sex?! beauty standards?? ranking SZA's music, CTRL deluxe & SOS!

comphet & lesbian masterdoc, Poker Face TV review, our flop era (not consuming as much media)

Seriously unserious, reviewing 'Sort Of' on HBOmax, & Sunnaissance Nation

bad mainstream lesbian representation & bad faith internet discourse

De-centering men, distinctly pansexual, Céline Sciamma + mothers' daughters

online lesbian drama & discourse: wrapping up our 2022's media input & output

forcing people out of the closet, lesbian loneliness, & Jill Gutowitz's essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now

fatphobia, speculating on people's sexualities, & reviewing yet another shitty teen movie

Taylor Swift's Midnights review & song ranking & lyric analysis

LAVENDER (haze) SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE: Taylor Swift NOT beating the alleGAYtions

Midnights announcement & gaylor thoughts, discussing our favorite lesbian period dramas The Handmaiden (2016) & Summerland (2020)

"Non-binary" as a 3rd gender (boo!), butch/femme (yay!), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) review

celebrity culture, "queer" vs. "lesbian," reviewing + ranking Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE

Carolina knows what? Sally Rooney-verse, & politics of p0rnography

Gaylor evidence, But I'm A Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999), high femme blondes

IRL era! Solidarity vs. privilege, Nordic model vs. communism, Heartstopper vs. First Kill (battle of the Netflix LGBTQ teen adaptations)

Queer identity & liberation, Derry Girls, & universal teenage girlhood experiences in media

defending Amber Heard against the insane Johnny Depp fans, shit talking CRUSH (2022), hating & complaining

Lesbians against Harry Styles, Russian Doll Season 2 review, & matriarchies

introductory communist theory recommendations, more online LGBTQ discourse, & Gaylor Easter eggs: 1 year anniversary & season 3 finale

movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Where The Crawdads Sing, & Taylor Swift) + a new favorite movie (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

gaylor swifties of color thoughts on race, gender, & Charli XCX's album CRASH 💥⚡️

Lesbophobia online? Can men direct movies about women? Why is Russian Doll so good?

Ranking our top 10 favorite Taylor Swift songs, rehashing Tik Tok drama, & battling Hetlors with The Archers podcast cohosts Madyson & Katie!!!

Hating on validity politics, corny lesbian short films, & podcast updates!

discussing misandry, white women, & Chinese lesbian representation in "Saving Face" (2004) dir. Alice Wu

Marxist feminists vs. internet discourse on sex, Fleabag, & lamenting abysmal media literacy/comprehension levels

our advice to LGBTQ high schoolers & very belated review of Adele's latest album, 30

Shawn Mendes is gay, look back on 2021's trials & tribulations, slays & cancellations

blondie's 32nd birthday! album rankings & what was Taylor Swift's best era?

fake gays, is Reputation overrated? & Passing (2021) dir. Rebecca Hall

Compulsory heterosexuality, Red (Taylor's Version) ranking + review, defending Taylor Swift against the haters