This Halloween, Jane and Vivian are talking about Sleepaway Camp (1983), a cult classic slasher that turns 40 this year! ...and also potentially the most messy and problematic genderweird film we've talked about so far!

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"We're an entire generation of kids: mentally ill, heavily medicated, and thoroughly confused and traumatized by gender and sexuality."

This week, on the Season One finale of GenderWeird, we're talking about the revolutionary queer TV show Euphoria (2019-), created by controversial auteur Sam Levinson. Through Euphoria, we recall and discuss everything we've previously touched on in this podcast, and see how it all connects to the very strange gender revolution we in the 21st century are experiencing, as the thin pink line grows ever blurrier.

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Season Two will be coming soon!

"Why do age gap relationships make people so angry? Why do queer ones make them even angrier?"

This week we discuss the strengths, weaknesses, misconceptions, and moralism of gay and lesbian age gap relationships. Jane and Elaine relate the representation of such relationships in romantic drama films Carol (2015) and Call Me by Your Name (2017), to their own experiences as a couple. Both texts offer nuanced glimpses into the intimate lives of gay people and have a thing or two to say about Oedipus and Electra complexes. Despite their widespread acclaim upon release, these films have since been subjected to varying degrees of criticism, but is any of it really earned? Is prejudice towards people who do things differently earned? No. Not really, and we will tell you why.

also featuring special guest Elaine Fuentes!

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"Voyeurism is participation."

Time to get hot and bothered! This week, we're talking about two taboo subjects - polyamory and unsimulated sex scenes - as they are explored through the films Shortbus (2006) and Love (2015). Love is a harrowing nonlinear journey through a straight relationship that becomes doomed thanks to lies, jealousy, and the toxicity of control, while Shortbus follows several characters with different unfulfilled needs as they graphically open their bodies and hearts up to an eclectic community centered in an underground NYC salon called "Shortbus." What's so bad about monogamy? What are the pleasures and pitfalls of polyamory? Where do the lines between art, film, and pornography begin and end?

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"You met us at a very strange point in our lives..."

Yes, the trans women of GenderWeird are finally talking about The Matrix. How original. Today we're looking at The Matrix and Fight Club, two anti-establishment films from 1999, the peak of Y2K anxiety and capitalist consumer disillusionment. Both of these films are notorious for being appropriated by conservatives and gender fascists, despite both having radical genderweird creators. Time to look at these films with fresh eyes. What if I told you that Fight Club was more "woke" than we've ever given it credit for? What if I told you that just reducing The Matrix to a trans allegory does it a disservice?

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"The public is always ahead of us about what they're ready for."

This week, we look at two documentaries about gay and trans representation in Hollywood mainstream film, The Celluloid Closet (1995) and Disclosure (2020) respectively. While both films are insightful looks into the industry's troubled history of on-screen LGBTQ+ representation, they have significant drawbacks, especially when put into the context of their times and their suggestions for where to go from here. Is Hollywood really able to provide the solution to the cultural damage it has inflicted? How important is on-screen representation in the 2020s anyway?

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"How much of our bodies and souls do we give up to be loved?"

For Hedwig and Elvira, the heroines of John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In a Year with 13 Moons, to be with the men they love means reluctantly undergoing gender reassignment surgery. While we may now think this premise problematic and deeply uncomfortable to consider, the tragedies and farces that follow Hedwig and Elvira's "mutilations" are very real, and very relevant to the cruel persecution of trans people today. So, how do we physically, emotionally, and psychologically "mutilate" ourselves to feel complete in a society that teaches us we are incomplete if we are not loved in certain socially sanctioned ways?

also featuring our first guest, trans filmmaker Elaine Fuentes!

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"All definitions of gender have been erased. All the doors are now open."

Today, we talk about two lesser-known Japanese films: 1969's Funeral Parade of Roses, a “hybrid-documentary-cum-avant-garde-genderbent-retelling-of-Oedipus-Rex," and 1995's Shinjuku Boys, a slice-of-life documentary following three trans-masc sex workers in Shinjuku. What do trans people today have in common with the "gayboys" and "onnabe" of 20th century Japan? Where is the line between gender identity and gender performance? Does it even really matter?

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