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Our Flag Means Death Is Sweet Relief for a Weary Fandom
“So I’m very much enjoying this,” I said in a group text to a pair of dear friends as I began to watch Our Flag Means Death for the first time, “and there is some very queer queerness happening. But I just have to know. Do we get something on screen? I cannot get my…
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Marvel Studios Denounces ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill as Disney Employees Plan Walkout
Disney’s inability to quickly address the company’s involvement in funding legislators involved with Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill has seen plenty of internal and external dissatisfaction with the House of Mouse. But now, things are slowly starting to change — if not nearly enough.
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YouTubers Can Finally Monetise Content Featuring Gender-Affirming Products
If you read enough stories about the nuts and bolts of ad revenue, you’ll notice this weird incongruity that crops up again and again. On one hand, online ads are a crucial (albeit annoying AF) piece of internet architecture; the hundreds of billions of dollars in digital ad spend getting poured into the internet each…
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Candyman’s Queer Couple Was Haunted by the White Gaze
In director Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, a new generation of Chicagoans finds themselves in a gentrified Cabrini-Green that bears little resemblance to the neighbourhood in Bernard Rose’s 1992 film of the same name — which is still being terrorised by the titular hook-handed, vengeful spirit. Most everyone knows (on some level) that to speak the ghoul’s…