The Lavender Menace

By Renaissance & Sunny

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Episodes: 64

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Two overly online nonbinary lesbian communists of color (with gaylor tendencies) spew their opinions on pop culture and media via a three part comedy variety show: first, a discussion of a listener submitted hot take. Second, analyzing a piece of media we've both consumed together. And third, recommending books/movies/TV/music/etc. to each other. Renaissance is the film stan twitter user, and Sunny is the booktuber. We think we are hilarious and have the correct opinions, and we hope you can agree! Email us at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com for your hot take submissions or business stuff. Follow us on Twitter @TheLavenderPod for live updates of our unhinged ramblings and @thelavendermenacepod on Instagram and Tik Tok for more of our short form content in between episodes. We also have a Letterboxd @thelavenderpod, if you're into that sort of thing. (Of course you are- we're all gay nerds here!!) You can support us at patreon.com/thelavendermenace for bonus episodes, early access, exclusive content, and merch, but we truly appreciate all of our listeners and love engaging with y'all on any level. Much lesbian love and solidarity!

Episode Date
Lesbian books (sorry, F/F romance novels) suck! But "Kissing Jessica Stein" (2001) is brilliant
May 05, 2024
Ethics of media piracy, gender essentialism & “male feminists,” Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Mar 20, 2024
2023 movies, music, & books in review: our favorites & flops
Feb 12, 2024
Misogyny on the left, lesbian dating apps, Barbie (2023) thoughts & review
Dec 27, 2023
Lesbians for a Free Palestine
Nov 12, 2023
No more male artists!!! 🤬 Who can identify as femme? 🤔 Also contemporary cinema flopping... 🙊
Aug 22, 2023
Speak Now (Gaylor's Version) ranking & review, re-recordings/"Taylor's Version" & building narrative
Jul 27, 2023
postmodern gender identities, anti-Zionism/pinkwashing, 90s feminism & 90s girlypop film
Jul 15, 2023
Politics of media consumption & comparing two queer American literature class syllabuses
Jun 27, 2023
Why you're wrong about gaylor, problems with 'sapphic spaces,' & lesbian feminist legacies
May 24, 2023
top/bottom roles in lesbian sex?! beauty standards?? ranking SZA's music, CTRL deluxe & SOS!
Apr 28, 2023
comphet & lesbian masterdoc, Poker Face TV review, our flop era (not consuming as much media)
Apr 07, 2023
Seriously unserious, reviewing 'Sort Of' on HBOmax, & Sunnaissance Nation
Feb 27, 2023
bad mainstream lesbian representation & bad faith internet discourse
Feb 07, 2023
De-centering men, distinctly pansexual, Céline Sciamma + mothers' daughters
Jan 24, 2023
online lesbian drama & discourse: wrapping up our 2022's media input & output
Jan 09, 2023
forcing people out of the closet, lesbian loneliness, & Jill Gutowitz's essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now
Dec 28, 2022
fatphobia, speculating on people's sexualities, & reviewing yet another shitty teen movie
Nov 28, 2022
Taylor Swift's Midnights review & song ranking & lyric analysis
Oct 31, 2022
LAVENDER (haze) SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE: Taylor Swift NOT beating the alleGAYtions
Oct 13, 2022
Midnights announcement & gaylor thoughts, discussing our favorite lesbian period dramas The Handmaiden (2016) & Summerland (2020)
Sep 13, 2022
"Non-binary" as a 3rd gender (boo!), butch/femme (yay!), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) review
Aug 29, 2022
celebrity culture, "queer" vs. "lesbian," reviewing + ranking Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE
Aug 21, 2022
Carolina knows what? Sally Rooney-verse, & politics of p0rnography
Jul 30, 2022
Gaylor evidence, But I'm A Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999), high femme blondes
Jul 10, 2022
IRL era! Solidarity vs. privilege, Nordic model vs. communism, Heartstopper vs. First Kill (battle of the Netflix LGBTQ teen adaptations)
Jun 24, 2022
Queer identity & liberation, Derry Girls, & universal teenage girlhood experiences in media
Jun 08, 2022
defending Amber Heard against the insane Johnny Depp fans, shit talking CRUSH (2022), hating & complaining
May 30, 2022
Lesbians against Harry Styles, Russian Doll Season 2 review, & matriarchies
May 16, 2022
introductory communist theory recommendations, more online LGBTQ discourse, & Gaylor Easter eggs: 1 year anniversary & season 3 finale
Apr 17, 2022
movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Where The Crawdads Sing, & Taylor Swift) + a new favorite movie (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Apr 11, 2022
gaylor swifties of color thoughts on race, gender, & Charli XCX's album CRASH 💥⚡️
Apr 04, 2022
Lesbophobia online? Can men direct movies about women? Why is Russian Doll so good?
Mar 27, 2022
Ranking our top 10 favorite Taylor Swift songs, rehashing Tik Tok drama, & battling Hetlors with The Archers podcast cohosts Madyson & Katie!!!
Mar 17, 2022
Hating on validity politics, corny lesbian short films, & podcast updates!
Mar 04, 2022
discussing misandry, white women, & Chinese lesbian representation in "Saving Face" (2004) dir. Alice Wu
Feb 14, 2022
Marxist feminists vs. internet discourse on sex, Fleabag, & lamenting abysmal media literacy/comprehension levels
Jan 27, 2022
our advice to LGBTQ high schoolers & very belated review of Adele's latest album, 30
Jan 17, 2022
Shawn Mendes is gay, look back on 2021's trials & tribulations, slays & cancellations
Jan 10, 2022
blondie's 32nd birthday! album rankings & what was Taylor Swift's best era?
Dec 14, 2021
fake gays, is Reputation overrated? & Passing (2021) dir. Rebecca Hall
Dec 08, 2021
Compulsory heterosexuality, Red (Taylor's Version) ranking + review, defending Taylor Swift against the haters
Nov 18, 2021
addressing the biphobia discourse, battling internet ignorance, & our Fearless (Taylor's Version) x reputation era
Nov 09, 2021
Season 2 finale: the media that shaped us & our childhood queerness, unique relationships to fandom
Oct 21, 2021
Back from the hiatus, your nice emails (August throwback), Hannah Wilke at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Oct 03, 2021
Did we like Solar Power ?! + thoughts on Hasan's $2.4 million house & 'Assassination Nation' (2018)
Aug 23, 2021
Gaylor blind items, the intimacy of female friendship & the queerness of girlhood, are you a Renaissance or a Sunny?
Aug 15, 2021
Abolish the olympics & the brilliance of Miranda July's 'Kajillionaire' (2020)
Aug 02, 2021
Fluidity of sexuality vs. lesbianism & thoughts on queer(bait-y) British comedy show This Way Up ft. guest! Palestinian lesbian stan twitter bae @abitallie
Jul 25, 2021
"White man's communism" & idolizing 'Great Men' of history vs. Taylor Swift being an actual great woman of history, culture, genius
Jul 18, 2021
The politics of superheroes (MCU shit!), our Zola thoughts, & anticommunist military propaganda
Jul 11, 2021
Our employed era, campy sapphic media, & Taylor Swift's millennial cringe
Jul 04, 2021
Straights in gay bars discourse, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo obsession era, Taylor Jenkins Reid owns us af
Jun 26, 2021
Women can and should be evil, Taylor Swift is STILL gay, Season Finale shenanigans
Jun 19, 2021
None of you know any lesbians IRL and it shows, Solar Power af, & music slays
Jun 13, 2021
Pride Month Discourse, Gay Wonder Woman, Lengthy Recommendations
Jun 05, 2021
Perpetual horniness vs. damnation, annoying white western gays, Catholicism is camp
May 29, 2021
SOUR lesbians, Jennifer’s Body & the continuing queerness of girlhood, stans vs. haters
May 22, 2021
Kaylor x Reputation?! discussing girlhood & memory with Ellie Eaton, author of The Divines!
May 15, 2021
Lesbians not biphobic (sometimes), For Harriet against school to prison pipeline, and Special Announcements!
May 10, 2021
BONUS EPISODE: how we consume & perceive different forms of media (books, TV, movies, live theatre)
May 06, 2021
Our Sagittarius mom Taylor Swift listens to girl in red!!! Also unintelligent men & badass women
May 02, 2021
Men Are Bad, Wonder Woman is Boring, Sunny has no Patience
Apr 24, 2021
Taylor Swift is gay, Shiva Baby rocks, & illiterate lesbians
Apr 17, 2021