culture consumed (February, 2020)

live theatre

• [ASP] Bright Half Life (lesbians)
  
• [ArtsEmerson] Detroit Red (Malcolm X in Boston)

tv

• The Good Place 4.13 (series finale)

music

• Kesha's High Road (Thom said: "Kesha’s new album has a song called “Kinky” that is very explicitly about ethical non-monogamy. It’s not exactly about what I’d call polyamory. But it’s definitely about non-monogamy. And it’s explicitly about being ethical. It’s also about other forms of kink, but honestly, it’s 90% about fucking other people.")
  
• Della Mae's Headlight (because Thom)
• and a few songs (also because Thom, because honestly, who else talks about music and makes me care?)
  • from Fun Home -- "Changing My Major" and "Ring of Keys"
  • Delta Rae - "Only In America"
  • Dawes - "A Little Bit Of Everything" (“I think that love is so much easier than you realize. / If you can give yourself to someone, then you should.”)

books

• Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes (Medford LGBTQ book club -- because the author was probably queer, though it's not a particularly queer book per se; it's a novel about a young Black boy growing up in small-town Kansas in the early 1910s)
  
• Victor LaValle's DESTROYER written by Victor LaValle & illustrated by Dietrich Smith (The Root: "Victor LaValle masterfully reimagines Shelley’s Frankenstein for the modern era in his graphic novel Destroyer, a timely and powerful read that re-energizes the Gothic genre.")
• 10 picturebooks (8 about gender/trans/queer stuff)
• The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn (for feminist sci-fi bookclub, though it mostly felt like historical fiction, honestly)
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald (which was published in 2013, and it shows)

movies

• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) with Thom
  
• a lot of ridiculous porn at my friends' annual party -- themes this year included walking & "All good sex partners come from the ocean" ( T&P )
• Tracers -- fannish movie night -- wow, this was not a good movie; and not just because of the compulsory heterosexuality (though yes, Nikki deserved so much better)

 fanvids

All hail Elizabeth Swann, Pirate King.

elipie said, "So #TGIFemslash needed a vid to I'm On A Boat for Club Femslash, and I discovered that the song was exactly the same length as my Pirates of the Caribbean/Elizabeth Swann vid, In The Bullpen... and it mashed up shockingly well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-nhujNZO5A"

This is the original ("The Bullpen" vid).

Though when I think fanvid for "The Bullpen" I always think of the Natasha vid which introduced me to that song.