Today's episode is on Jane Schoenbrun's breakout 2024 horror film - I Saw The TV Glow.
Join us for a discussion that is alternately haunting and deeply silly, featuring playground parachutes, TV-based queer awakenings and Alice's love of soup.
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[Image: A cropped poster for the movie I Saw The TV Glow, featuring our protagonist Owen sitting down, facing away from the camera staring into the pink static glow of an old TV set]
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Nadine Hwang
Today's episode is on the Spanish-Chinese pilot, diplomat, and concentration camp survivor Nadine Hwang. Join us to learn about Parisian lesbians, the skills of the ultimate modern women, and Nadine's war-time romance with her life-partner Nelly Mousset-Vos.
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[Image: Black-and-white photo of Nadine Hwang amongst refugees arriving in Malmö, Sweden, April 1945. Still from the documentary Nelly & Nadine]
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1:00:37
Megillus
Today we're talking about Megillus, a trans-masculine character in the 2nd-century text Dialogues of the Courtesans. Tune in for three separate queer characters, the complexities of discussing transness in the ancient world, and a whole host of mythological examples of ways to be queer.
If you want to listen to the episode on Roman women for some background, you can check it out here.
If you want to read the dialogue we're discussing, you can find it here.
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[Image: text in Greek from the Dialogues of the Courtesans, centering on the name 'Megillus'.
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Walatta Petros
Today's episode is on the 17th-century nun, saint, and religious leader Walatta Petros. Join us for Queer as Fact's first visit to Ethiopia, as we learn about 17th century religious conflicts; discuss Walatta Petros' lifelong relationship with Eheta Kristos; and wade into scholarly debate on exactly what the nuns in her community were getting up to.
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[Image: Illustration of Walatta Petros, an Ethiopian nun wearing an orange patterned shawl. She is holding a cross, and has a halo above her head. Source.]
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Neptune Frost
Today’s episode is on 2021’s Rwandan/American science fiction musical, Neptune Frost. Join us for a discussion of cyberpunk fashion choices, technomagical gender transitions and some of the worst pigeon acting you’ve ever seen.
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[Image: A poster for the film Neptune Frost, featuring the two words of the title in distinct yet equally fantastical fonts, as well as actors Cheryl Isheja (playing Neptune) and Bertrand "Kaya Free" Ninteretse (playing Matalusa)]
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