At last, I’ve caught up on season 7 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I thoroughly enjoyed the dips into Equestria’s ancient past and the character development of non-Mane Six ponies. I still thoroughly ship Rarijack and enjoyed the bread crumbs sprinkled upon us this season. Because that’s all we got of any LGBTQ… Continue reading My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Where’s The LGBTQ Rep?
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Carmilla: A Glimmer of Hope in a Sea of “Bury Your Gays”
Last month, the YouTube series Carmilla ended and neither member of the main lesbian couple died (permanently). In fact, Carmilla lived and I have some theological feelings about that. Carmilla is loosely based on the 1872 novella of the same name. It follows Laura Hollis, a student at potently supernatural school called Silas University, as… Continue reading Carmilla: A Glimmer of Hope in a Sea of “Bury Your Gays”
Transcendence and Subtlety in Queer Ships
Queer erasure and censorship in media isn’t a new problem. Although things have certainly changed in recent years, overt representation of queer women in cartoons (and anime to a lesser extent) is still pretty sparse. Where it does occur, it’s sometimes embedded in some type of spiritual or transcendent narrative in which the transcendence of… Continue reading Transcendence and Subtlety in Queer Ships