The Lavender Menace
Two nonbinary lesbian communists of color, Renaissance and Sunny, host a comedy variety show with three segments: discussing a listener-submitted hot take, analyzing a piece of media they've both consumed, and recommending books, movies, TV, or music. They describe themselves as having 'gaylor tendencies' and share their opinions on pop culture and media. The podcast includes listener engagement via email, social media, and a Patreon for bonus content.
Episodes
our complicated relationships with Beyoncé & Taylor Swift, eating disorder culture, & living in t€KKKno-KKKapitaliSSt am€riKKKa
A very belated part 2 of our 2025 wrap up episode (LOL) recorded the same day as our most recent episode prior to this one. TLDL: art under capitalism is destroying art, anorexia is the devil and so is technologyThanks for joining us for this episode! Send your hot takes to thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com and support us on Patreon for bonus content and early access: https://www.patreon.com/TheL
abolition feminism, abuse apologism, & best books of 2025
A very belated 2025 wrap up episode (we recorded for over four hours back in December LOL so this is part one....) in which we discuss:Lesbian Feminist Book Club: https://www.instagram.com/lesbianfeministbookclub/mindfulness meditation and letting ourselves be boredbeing anti-overconsumption and anti-internet and social mediaPHYSICAL MEDIA!!!!!Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capit
reading is CRUCIAL! discussing Caliban & the Witch by Silvia Federici & queer/feminist histories
Are white queers entitled about their history and culture? Can femmes be nonbinary? And other pressing questions that our listeners, patrons, and substack subscribers have submitted to us... (Email us your hot takes at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com!!!) Queer history is so so so important and most gay people do not know enough of it! The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader edited by Joan N
Sinners (2025) review + loving the arts & authenticity
This episode includes discussion of: “butch-femme” aesthetic photos, our problem with Pinterest, internet personas and the importance of being earnest (and also genuine!) Also: the importance of female singer-songwriters and how CINEMA IS BACK which might be a recession/fascism indicator... In discussing the the racial and historical background of Sinners (2025), we examine the portrayal of truth
Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal album review/ranking (CONTROVERSIAL!!!!) + the liberal arts aren't for everyone
This podcast episode brought to you today by lukewarm politics of hair takes re: Bush discourse (not the president) and Kanye/Bianca, a hot take from Sunny about the Doechii album, & Black lesbian film love from RenaissanceSend your HOTTEST TAKES to thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com ! & Support your favorite indie dykes & get early episode access/exclusive bonus content on our Patreon
Not everyone can be a feminist! (bell hooks shade) + documenting gay life in Michelle Tea's Against Memoir
Thank you to Clair for sending us a hot take about the madonna/whore complex lesbians are subjected to re: feminism. A reminder that you can send us a hot take about anything to thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com for us to discuss in a future episode!Contents of this episode include: bell hooks is a pick me, being a lesbian doesn't make you a better feminist, Michelle Tea is a genius, Sunny recomm
We hate AI, ‘futch,’ & Spotify Wrapped
Why generative AI is deeply evil + how cottagecore wlw sapphic aesthetics have done untold damage to the lesbian community + our 2024 music in review. Happy new year! Thanks for joining us for this episode! Send your hot takes to thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com and support us on Patreon for bonus content and early access: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace Instagram: https://www.instagra
Communism is the only answer!!! + Ranking & reviewing Sabrina Carpenter's Short 'n Sweet
We recorded this episode back in September when Renaissance was visiting St. Louis. Watch the full video recording + support future Sunnaissance adventures by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheLavenderMenaceHow do we deal with living under capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy? As workers, as women, as lesbians, this question haunts everything about the decisions we make for
Kamala lost & it's Democrats' fault. Stop blaming leftists for not voting for a genocidairess
Liberals are coping with Trump's win with racism and cringe, as expected. Almost as expected as Harris's loss...! Genuinely the Democrats have a humiliation kink and are addicted to bag fumbling.Shaming people for not voting for a genocidal maniac meanwhile you're first in line for hell grad school registration because you think the blood of Palestinians is cheap- fascism is here and it's inside e
brat review + song ranking (we love gay people & queer history soooo much)
lovely listeners of the lavender menace!!! thank you so much for being so patient and eager for our return. after yet another unintentional multi-month long hiatus, we have sooo much to share with y'all. (+ a reminder to keep emailing us your hot takes to our email inbox @ thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com)this episode's hot takes include lamenting gay people's ignorance of queer history, telling
can straight people say "queer?" stanning Chappell Roan, criticizing Cowboy Carter
table of contents: 1. Good Luck Babe! is so fucking goodddddd 2. is Chappell Roan queer? bi? lesbian?! 3. recommendations to get your Gen X mom (who doesn't read books) to care about feminist and lesbian shit 4. hot take: straight people shouldn't be using certain gay terms 5. pre-Sunnaissance Sunnaissance instagram DMs 6. "queer" as identity label vs. being gay and going outside 7. our review of
Lesbian books (sorry, F/F romance novels) suck! But "Kissing Jessica Stein" (2001) is brilliant
Reviewing inane comments under Sunny's video "The Problem With Lesbian Romance" https://youtu.be/AkGbysZRB_w?si=Y9jqARsgJTQp6ZWJ & talking about how Renaissance's interpretation of the 2001 lesbian rom-com Kissing Jessica Stein is the one true understanding of the film. Get bonus episodes & early access on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace Instagram: https://www.instag
Ethics of media piracy, gender essentialism & “male feminists,” Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Hello listeners! Here is a new episode where we talk about feminism at length… who’s surprised? But before we get into the feminism of it all, we discuss various facets and corners in the world of media piracy and consuming digital content in response to a listener email. We continue to wonder how observations and opinions that lead us to receive so much internet hate are now popular takes to have
2023 movies, music, & books in review: our favorites & flops
It's our year end wrap up episode! Discussing the movies, music, and books consumed in 2023. episode timestamps:Intro 0:00 11:00 movies! Number of films watched compared to previous years, Letterboxd stats/logs, watching each other’s recommendations or watching films together like The Children’s Hour, Duck Butter, Theater Camp, Born in Flames,and Bottoms. Renaissance watched Studio Ghibli for
Misogyny on the left, lesbian dating apps, Barbie (2023) thoughts & review
Post-hiatus episode recorded in the summer for our beloved listeners! In which we discuss a listener-submitted hot-take about misogyny within leftist discourse and the failure of people to effectively address patriarchy or take sexism seriously. Then we hard-shifted to a hot-take about making lesbian friends, trying to date women as a woman using dating apps flooded with straight women, and the le
Lesbians for a Free Palestine
Uncut livestream recording where we discuss the genocide against Palestinians we are witnessing right now and countering of Zionist propaganda. From student organizing to the non-existence of American democracy, this moment of mass, unprecedented radicalization regarding settler colonialism and capitalism has been incredible to witness. https://bdsmovement.net/
No more male artists!!! 🤬 Who can identify as femme? 🤔 Also contemporary cinema flopping... 🙊
It's time to revisit Olivia Rodrigo, and the potential beef regarding her and other female artists (that we kind of know nothing about.) What we do know is that we fuck with Vampire! And we do not fuck with Morgan Wallen, because truly, who the fuck is he??? Listener submitted hot-takes for this episode include: Am I the asshole, work friends edition, lesbophobic bisexual friends, the isolation of
Speak Now (Gaylor's Version) ranking & review, re-recordings/"Taylor's Version" & building narrative
Shorter episode for y'all!!! Featuring: boygenius concert etiquette hot-take and trying to beat the annoying teenager allegations, and discussing the relevancy and role of "Taylor's Version" album rereleases. Controversial listener submitted opinion: idgaf. Of course, gaylor content re: The (gay) Way I Loved You, Hayley Kiyoko and Taylor's relationship, leading us to consider whether perhaps Taylo
postmodern gender identities, anti-Zionism/pinkwashing, 90s feminism & 90s girlypop film
In this Sunnaissance IRL (California edition!) episode, we're discussing post-modern gender theory and queer/feminist studies in response to a listener-submitted hot take about the counterrevolutionary nature of contemporary usage of 'nonbinary' identity. We talk about Judith Butler and other feminists theorizing around gendered oppression and its relevance and role in social discourse over the de
Politics of media consumption & comparing two queer American literature class syllabuses
Happy pride month! The hot takes for this episode feature a very belated discussion on the Matty Healy x Taylor Swift controversy, our response to a listener's questioning of their own identity as a lesbian, and offering advice on reading difficult texts— basically how to read theory!!! We also discuss our perspectives as POC on the constant presence of white people's racism, with Renaissance's un
Why you're wrong about gaylor, problems with 'sapphic spaces,' & lesbian feminist legacies
Hello Beloved listeners (a little nod to the butchfemme zine you should totally check out the first 2 issues + adorable lesbian merch of belovedzine.com)! Here is a special liminal space episode for you (post-break Taylor break up but before this M*tty H**ly mess)! Our hot-takes this episode are all bound by GAYLOR! This episode was recorded pre-Matty Healy's... inclusion into Taylor Swift's rota
top/bottom roles in lesbian sex?! beauty standards?? ranking SZA's music, CTRL deluxe & SOS!
Hello listeners! New episode for you! We respond to a hot take about top/bottom distinctions in the lesbian community from an “elder gay” and how it differs from historically rooted high femme/stone butch identities. Ultimately, these labels exist to describe and identify sexual preference and compatibility. Also, disclaimer– although Sunny talks about penetrative sex primarily, that's not necessa
comphet & lesbian masterdoc, Poker Face TV review, our flop era (not consuming as much media)
Heyyyyyy and welcome to episode 18 of season 4. A few of you listeners sent in some fun and interesting queer discourse related questions, so we get into the social consequences, ramifications, implications etc. of the lesbian masterdoc and its circulation across the internet, especially towards the beginning of the pandemic. Relatedly, we discuss the nature of "comphet" in how it's being used and
Seriously unserious, reviewing 'Sort Of' on HBOmax, & Sunnaissance Nation
Welcome to episode 17 of season 4, in which we answer 3 listener submitted hot takes. The first hot take we talk about #StopCopCity and the frustrations that come from liberal and conservative pro-cop rhetoric, the break neck speed of the attention economy, and the goldfish memory of people who go through the same social justice learning every 2 years. The second hot take is an article submitted b
bad mainstream lesbian representation & bad faith internet discourse
Helloooo lovely listeners of the pod! This is episode 16 of season 4 and even though the episode was recorded over a month ago, like our Marxist foremothers, we are topical as ever. Some shop talk at the top of the episode: 1) RIP to twitter account asunnybooknook (fly high… gone but never forgotten), 2) Renaissance substack essay 3) new butch-femme zine on the scene! First we start with a hottake
De-centering men, distinctly pansexual, Céline Sciamma + mothers' daughters
hello listeners! first i come to you with news of The Lavender Menace match making service currently live on the Patreon! SINGLES/NON-MONOG ONLY!!! also butches please fill out the form... the numbers are in your favor right now.episode 15 of season 4 was filmed in december 2022 and is a part of the collection of Sunnaissance IRL video content. we respond to a hot take that references The Will to
online lesbian drama & discourse: wrapping up our 2022's media input & output
Happy new year and welcome to episode 14 of season 4!!! It's the beginning of 2023, which means that it's time to reminisce on all the movies, books, shows, albums, and LGBT internet drama we discussed and reviewed in the previous year. But first, we answer a listener submitted hot-take from Clair, who tells us about their experiences with being accused of transphobia on the basis of being a lesbi
forcing people out of the closet, lesbian loneliness, & Jill Gutowitz's essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now
Catching up on some hot take submissions from the past couple months, we discuss the politics of "coming out," especially within the context of online queer fanbases bullying celebrities out of the closet re: Kit Connor (whom we mistakenly call the name of an American Girl Doll in this episode lol), Becky Albertalli, and the misusage of the term "queerbait" in the current media landscape. Sunny co
fatphobia, speculating on people's sexualities, & reviewing yet another shitty teen movie
Welcome to season 4, episode 12, in which we discuss a listener-submitted-hot-take regarding the difficulties of fatphobia and butch identity, leading us into a discussion on current standards of beauty and also butch/femme dynamics (DIRE!) in the lesbian dating scene. Also, link to gf's lesbian literature blog: https://bassabibliophile.weebly.com/ Sunny recommends the highly informative book "Fea
Taylor Swift's Midnights review & song ranking & lyric analysis
Welcome to 11 of season 4, in which we discuss all of our gaylor thoughts on TS10!!! This is a special edition extra long episode for y'all, our live reaction the night of release is available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace. Thanks for joining us for this episode, and you can find us on Twitter, Substack, Instagram, Tik Tok, and Letterboxd if you want to connect! Send your h
LAVENDER (haze) SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE: Taylor Swift NOT beating the alleGAYtions
For episode 10 of season 4 of The LAVENDER Menace, we are bringing to you all our gaylor thoughts and reactions to Lavender Haze Gate. Taylor's Instagram Reel explanation, the gay history of the word "lavender," and the constant battle against hetlors. The video recording of this episode is up on our Patreon for $5 tiers and above: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace
Midnights announcement & gaylor thoughts, discussing our favorite lesbian period dramas The Handmaiden (2016) & Summerland (2020)
TS10 was announced at the VMAs, and this episode was recorded soon after the night of the event. (Sorry it took so long to get out, but it was a beast to edit, since the raw footage was over 3 hours long. Our patrons got early + exclusive video access though, if you want to check out our patreon!! https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace) Like every other swiftie and every other bitch who thinks
"Non-binary" as a 3rd gender (boo!), butch/femme (yay!), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) review
Welcome to episode 8 of season 4! We're discussing hot takes about the political nature of non-binary and non-binary lesbian identity, the disrespect y'all have towards butches, and the historical precedent of butch/femme relationships. Then, we review the new A24 movie featuring our long time favorite Rachel Sennott, Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), discussing the directorial, acting, and production
celebrity culture, "queer" vs. "lesbian," reviewing + ranking Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE
Who else is thrilled that our co-host Renaissance has had Beyoncé album named after them??? Welcome to episode 7 of season 4, in which we discuss the Taylor Swift private jet CO2 emission discourse, JoJo Siwa saying she doesn't like the word 'lesbian' in an interview, and the dominance of female singer-songwriters in the contemporary music landscape. We discuss the cultural implications of Beyoncé
Carolina knows what? Sally Rooney-verse, & politics of p0rnography
Hello The Lavender Menace listeners! Finally, here is the long awaited episode where we discuss the Sally Rooney literary universe, after Renaissance finished reading Beautiful World, Where Are You while in St. Louis. This was a major agenda point in this year’s Sunnissance in St. Louis era, of which many of you– especially our Patrons!!!– have been very supportive of (emotionally and financially)
Gaylor evidence, But I'm A Cheerleader (dir. Jamie Babbit, 1999), high femme blondes
Welcome to episode 5 of season 4! Sunnaissance is still in St. Louis, so catch all our unabridged video content on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace and follow us on social media (@thelavendermenacepodcast basically everywhere) to keep up with our comings and goings. Anyways! On this episode, we bring forth a listener email submitted hot take that argues that a lot of the backlash
IRL era! Solidarity vs. privilege, Nordic model vs. communism, Heartstopper vs. First Kill (battle of the Netflix LGBTQ teen adaptations)
Join our Patreon to access exclusive videos & bonus content, especially since we are in the same city right now (for a limited time only, sadly...): https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenaceIt's finally time for episode 4 of season 4, in which both Renaissance and Sunny are in St. Louis!!! How exciting! In other exciting news, we have heard you all yelling at us to watch and talk about Heartst
Queer identity & liberation, Derry Girls, & universal teenage girlhood experiences in media
Today in episode 3 of season 4, we respond to a listener submitted hot take and talk about class being the primary contradiction and why we are not radical feminists, the usage of the label or word “sapphic,” and the myth of queer solidarity. Then we revisit the lesbophobia vs. biphobia discourse through another hot take submission, and how it involves outing or not outing yourself to coworkers. W
defending Amber Heard against the insane Johnny Depp fans, shit talking CRUSH (2022), hating & complaining
Get access to 2 bonus mini-episodes a month on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace For episode 2 of season 4, we discuss the much publicized Heard/Depp case that many of you have asked us to talk about! But before that conversation, we get to a listener submitted hot take about how Better Than Revenge by Taylor Swift is about Evelyn Hugo and Celia St. James, characters in The Se
Lesbians against Harry Styles, Russian Doll Season 2 review, & matriarchies
Welcome to the season 4 premiere of The Lavender Menace Podcast! It's been a month since our last season, but if you want 2 bonus mini-episodes every month, early access to episodes, and exclusive video content, check out our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace! In this episode, we respond to listener submitted hot takes regarding Harry Styles headlining at Coachella, online LGBTQ/qu
introductory communist theory recommendations, more online LGBTQ discourse, & Gaylor Easter eggs: 1 year anniversary & season 3 finale
Happy 1 year anniversary of The Lavender Menace Podcast! We are dedicating our anniversary, season 3 finale, and 2022 Easter episode to answering three listener submitted hot takes, going over all of Taylor Swift’s Easter eggs pointing to her being gay, and reflecting on the media recommendations we’ve given each other in the past year. In discussing being a communist on the day to day, we recomme
movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Where The Crawdads Sing, & Taylor Swift) + a new favorite movie (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Welcome to episode 12 of our 3rd season, in which we we discuss Taylor Swift related movie adaptation controversies (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo + Where The Crawdads Sing) & how much we love the new Asian led, A24 sci-fi/action film Everything Everywhere All At Once! Which is Chris Fleming-pilled re: Sick Jan. Responding to email submitted hot takes from our listeners, we complain about
gaylor swifties of color thoughts on race, gender, & Charli XCX's album CRASH 💥⚡️
episode 11 of season 3: an 80 minute episode from us???? crazy! in responding to a listener submitted hot take from Adin, we discuss our experiences with and how we engage with race/gender/perception and community as gaylor swifties of color, when a lot of the gaylor community seems to be white. Sunny mentions @sillygoofygirlseekinggf on Tik Tok, and Renaissance addresses their apprehension toward
Lesbophobia online? Can men direct movies about women? Why is Russian Doll so good?
Get 2 bonus episodes a month, early access, exclusive merch & more by supporting us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenaceWelcome to episode 10 of season 3! Thank you to the listeners who emailed us their hot take submissions, as it allowed us to shit talk that awful Tik Tok song (“hey mom… I like boys too… I’m not a full on raging lezbo—“ ew), discuss the efficacy of men direct
Ranking our top 10 favorite Taylor Swift songs, rehashing Tik Tok drama, & battling Hetlors with The Archers podcast cohosts Madyson & Katie!!!
Katie and Madyson of The Archers podcast join us to discuss the lovely emails we get from our listeners and talk about the Gaylor internet! Then, we go through our top ten Taylor Swift songs of all time (not set in stone, of course) and all of our queer, personal, literary interpretations of them. Songs off of evermore, folklore, reputation, Lover, 1989, Red (Taylor's Version), Speak Now, and debu
Hating on validity politics, corny lesbian short films, & podcast updates!
BONUS EPISODE ON HBO EUPHORIA'S SEASON 2 FINALE UP ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/join/TheLavenderMenace Welcome to episode 8 of season 3! Here is a comma separated, hopefully exhaustive list of things we discuss: "tankies," the misuse of the word "nuance," debunking the idea of “state capitalism,” (books referenced- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Blood In My Eye by George
discussing misandry, white women, & Chinese lesbian representation in "Saving Face" (2004) dir. Alice Wu
The opening question for Season 3 Episode 7: do you say "Sunny and Renaissance" or "Renaissance and Sunny"??? Following our typical three part structure, we discuss a listener submitted hot take, a movie we watched together, and recommend each other media. Our lovely patron Elle (we appreciate our patrons so much!! https://www.patreon.com/TheLavenderMenace) submitted a hot take about misandry, whi
Marxist feminists vs. internet discourse on sex, Fleabag, & lamenting abysmal media literacy/comprehension levels
Episode 6 of our 3rd season- in which we discuss hot takes about reading theory, fanfiction, the split attraction model, sex work, and tumblr queers. Sunny reads some excerpts from Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici to make some points about Marxist feminism. Renaissance has finally effectively forced Sunny into watching Phoebe Waller Bridge's TV series Fleabag, because there's been a recent
our advice to LGBTQ high schoolers & very belated review of Adele's latest album, 30
Disclaimer: this episode was recorded back in November of 2021, but we said what we said! We respond to a listener's negative experiences with male entitlement (trigger warning for sexual harassment) as well as their hot take on the Madonna/Whore dynamic in relationship to lesbianism. This listener's message was a delight to go through, and Renaissance really saw themself in their email. To sum up
Shawn Mendes is gay, look back on 2021's trials & tribulations, slays & cancellations
Welcome to episode 4 of season 3 of The Lavender Menace podcast! Today we will be recapping our past year of podcasting- the journey we've been on from starting season 1 in April to being in the midst of season 3 now, in January of 2022. But first, we respond to some of our listener submitted hot takes. (You can email your hot takes to us for us to respond on the pod at thelavendermenacepodcast@gm
blondie's 32nd birthday! album rankings & what was Taylor Swift's best era?
It's Taylor Swift's birthday, and as leaders in the gaylor swiftie community, it is our public duty to bring to you a SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE!!! who cheered who clapped who screamed? Thanks so much to Tayo (@starshineclay on twitter) for bullying us into recording this last minute. We ranked every Taylor Swift album, gave our percentage of songs we love versus the rest of the songs on each album, an
fake gays, is Reputation overrated? & Passing (2021) dir. Rebecca Hall
Some scintillating takes for listeners on season 3's episode 3 of The Lavender Menace! Including but not limited to: are "fake bisexuals" real/bad/an issue? (Short answer is no. The issue is always heterosexism.) Is Taylor Swift a good person? Are Letterboxd reviewers the worst? Renaissance and Sunny fervently defend Taylor Swift's album 'Reputation' in response to our 17 year old gaylor listener'
Compulsory heterosexuality, Red (Taylor's Version) ranking + review, defending Taylor Swift against the haters
Happy Red (Taylor's Version) release everyone! We are so excited to share our thoughts on the All Too Well (1o minute version) short film and our ranking of the album in episode 2 season 3 of The Lavender Menace podcast. But before Sunny and Renaissance get into all that, we discuss three (3!) of y'all's hot takes that answer the following questions: is compulsory heterosexuality a lesbian exclusi
addressing the biphobia discourse, battling internet ignorance, & our Fearless (Taylor's Version) x reputation era
Welcome to season 3 of The Lavender Menace! Today we are forgoing our typical three part structure to complain about recent allegations, internet happenings, online battles... Sunny is in their reputation era again, thanks to overly online bisexuals accusing Sunny of being overly online while flooding them with violent online harassment. As Sunny's number one defender (and number one hater,) Renai
Season 2 finale: the media that shaped us & our childhood queerness, unique relationships to fandom
We have arrived at the end of season 2, and it's time for us to talk about the media that made us the crazy bitches/mean lesbians/critical media consumers we are. But first, we respond to your lovely emails (thank you to everyone reaching out to us! Please continue to do this! Email us with your hot takes and atthelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com) and give a listener our thoughts on what her art th
Back from the hiatus, your nice emails (August throwback), Hannah Wilke at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Hey everyone! Sorry for our unintended and unannounced one month break, but the podcast is back on!!! Here is episode 9 of season 2 that we recorded back in August when Renaissance and Sunny were both in St. Louis and saw the Hannah Wilke exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (more info here: https://pulitzerarts.org/art/hannah-wilke/) together, amidst doing many other things frolicking aroun
Did we like Solar Power ?! + thoughts on Hasan's $2.4 million house & 'Assassination Nation' (2018)
Welcome to episode 8 of season 2 of The Lavender Menace, where your cohosts Sunny and Renaissance are finally in the same city, house, room! Our sunnaissance in St. Louis era has been documented extensively on @thelavenderpod on Twitter, our personal Twitters (@asunnybooknook & @rxnaissance), and Renaissance's Instagram @renaissancemarie, if you want to go check that out... anyways today we discus
Gaylor blind items, the intimacy of female friendship & the queerness of girlhood, are you a Renaissance or a Sunny?
Hello swifties/gaylors/our fellow mentally ill sapphics obsessed with a 5'10 blonde Sagittarius, Today we are blind reacting (kinda) to a listener submitted gaylor blind item blog post (link here: https://girlsandgaylors.tumblr.com/post/187281985680/gaylor-blind-items-2014-now) from @ariesgodmother on instagram for our hot take portion of the podcast, then discussing the novella Many A Little Make
Abolish the olympics & the brilliance of Miranda July's 'Kajillionaire' (2020)
On this week's installment of Sunny and Renaissance's regularly scheduled three part podcast of a submitted hot take, joint media consumption, and personalized recommendations for each other, your favorite lesbian communists exhibit their bimboism in regards to professional sports but ultimately comes to the conclusion that like capitalism, they must be abolished! Thank you to @scissorclown on Twi
Fluidity of sexuality vs. lesbianism & thoughts on queer(bait-y) British comedy show This Way Up ft. guest! Palestinian lesbian stan twitter bae @abitallie
Welcome to episode 5 of season 2 of The Lavender Menace podcast, where we, smart lesbian communists of color, discuss hot takes about communism lesbianism and everything fun sexy and cool, consume and discuss queer media, and recommend books movies and TV shows to each other. Today we are joined by the lovely Nour, whom you might recognize from lesbian film milf stan twitter @abitallie! Our lovely
"White man's communism" & idolizing 'Great Men' of history vs. Taylor Swift being an actual great woman of history, culture, genius
Welcome to episode 4 of The Lavender Menace Podcast season 2, where we bring ourselves back to our podcast roots- generally being frustrated at leftist internet discourse started by people who don't read and have no true understanding of what Marxism even is, and then ranting about Taylor Swift's genius for an hour. The Tik Tok Sunny complains about for the hot take is inaccessible because the cre
The politics of superheroes (MCU shit!), our Zola thoughts, & anticommunist military propaganda
Spoiler warnings for this episode: Black Widow (2021) & Zola (2021)Your favorite lesbian comedy entertainment criticism Aries/Cancer duo back with some scathing opinions on the MCU aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe as outsiders who occasionally partake, our thoughts on the latest hottest A24 movie everyone is talking about, and ramblings about the logical and political fallacies of superhero stori
Our employed era, campy sapphic media, & Taylor Swift's millennial cringe
Discussing a wonderful listener's emailed hot take about I Care A Lot (2021), in which Renaissance defends their love for morally reprehensible women in fictional media and Sunny recommend Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Ellie Cosimano as an alternative piece of media to I Care A Lot (2021) that is intentionally camp and funny thriller about a morally gray woman that is actually written by a woman
Straights in gay bars discourse, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo obsession era, Taylor Jenkins Reid owns us af
Welcome to season 2 of The Lavender Menace!We kicked off the second season of the podcast on Instagram live (@renaissancemarie @sunnywithacamera)! Starting off with hot takes as usual, a listener named Robin submitted a wonderful email about their straight sister going to gay bars but also being homophobic...? And we talk about how irritating it is to have people encroach on spaces not for them. A
Women can and should be evil, Taylor Swift is STILL gay, Season Finale shenanigans
This episode we discuss TWO (2) listener hot takes that appeared in our inbox! One regarding women’s anger, and another regarding the recent uproar about Billie Eilish (queer baiting?!) Then we go on to discuss recent happenings in the Swiftie world and reflect on season one of the podcast, doubling down on our Gaylorism. Finally, we go through all the media we’ve recommended to each other over th
None of you know any lesbians IRL and it shows, Solar Power af, & music slays
This episode (shorter than 45 minutes?! GASP!) Renaissance and Sunny discuss how lesbophobic you bitches (internet queers) are and our journeys to lesbianism. Yay! Then we gush about how much we love Lorde's single Solar Power despite the unnecessary heterosexuality of it. As usual, our three part show ends with us recommending media to each other, and instead of the usual Sunny's book recommendat
Pride Month Discourse, Gay Wonder Woman, Lengthy Recommendations
Every June the internet repeats annoying discourse and we hate it! Renaissance loves Professor Marsten And The Wonder Woman (2017) and Sunny hates love. Most of the time.Media mentioned this episode, vaguely in order of appearance: Professor Marsten and The Wonder Woman (2017), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), The Handmaiden (2016), Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Ben
Perpetual horniness vs. damnation, annoying white western gays, Catholicism is camp
We love to complain about annoying white gays, the homophobia and transphobia inherent to colonialism, the many evils of western Christianity, among other things! This episode we discuss a wonderful and thoughtful and nuanced hot take submitted to our email (thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com) from listener Abhay from India, and that leads us into our discussion of our failed attempt at a shared v
SOUR lesbians, Jennifer’s Body & the continuing queerness of girlhood, stans vs. haters
Sunny and Renaissance have differing opinions but similar song ranking lists of Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album SOUR. Spoiler alert: Renaissance is a hater and self proclaimed bimbo!!! We read Fortune Favors The Dead by Stephen Spotswood and loved the quirky NYC 40’s vibes and queer little twists and turns. We also watched sapphic film cult classic Jennifer’s Body, which once again led us to discussi
Kaylor x Reputation?! discussing girlhood & memory with Ellie Eaton, author of The Divines!
A very special episode for you all featuring our first ever guest on the pod! Hope you enjoy our conversations in relation to running themes of queerness, womanhood, self development, and private and public perception. Also, Reputation is about Karlie Kloss.Follow us on our new Twitter account @thelavenderpod! Email us at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com
Lesbians not biphobic (sometimes), For Harriet against school to prison pipeline, and Special Announcements!
another late episode due to technical difficulties (Anchor....) but this week we discuss sapphic discourse and the objectification of wlw relationships by bisexual women who date men. we praise the brilliance of Kim, the host of the For Harriet youtube channel which somehow led us to talking about how public school are literal prisons; listen to figure out how we make that leap. finally we give ou
Our Sagittarius mom Taylor Swift listens to girl in red!!! Also unintelligent men & badass women
On April 30th 2021, Taylor Swift did not release her 10th studio album. However, she DID repost girl in red’s new album, titled ‘if i could make it go quiet’! We discuss this, as well as the sapphic Icelandic crime show Stella Blómkivist that we watched together, which Renaissance nervously anticipates Sunny’s reaction to. Then Sunny pitches two mystery/crime novels to Renaissance, and Renaissance
Men Are Bad, Wonder Woman is Boring, Sunny has no Patience
In which we discuss, argue, and banter over the shitty hot take that misandry is bad (it's not!), a very bad DC movie (with interjectory commentary about another DC movie that fucking rocks), and pitching media to each other (unsuccessfully, on Renaissance's part.)
Taylor Swift is gay, Shiva Baby rocks, & illiterate lesbians
Welcome to The Lavender Menace podcast! Our first episode includes discussions of Gaylor theorizing, Shiva Baby, and Fleabag, as well as some attempted pitches of YA contemporary sapphic books. Featuring the chaotic ramblings of an Aries/Cancer lesbian communist swiftie duo- who happen to have superior taste in media and sharp/sensational/niche-to-the-point-of-alientating-others pop culture analys
BONUS EPISODE: how we consume & perceive different forms of media (books, TV, movies, live theatre)
Extra content from episode 3 that we cut out to limit the ever-lengthening minutes of each podcast episode we record. Renaissance is a television defender, Sunny believes in book supremacy, and we love to argue!
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