Queer Projection
This is a movie podcast about finding queer themes damn near everywhere. Hosts Alethia St. Joan and Danny Carroll share a 30+ year friendship that has been bound together by a shared love for movies. A trans woman and a gay man respectively, Alethia and Danny explore what these movies meant to them while they were young and closeted, and what revisiting these movies means for the actualized, arguably maladjusted adults they’ve become. It’s a heady, often crass and sometimes crude blend - part nostalgia trip, part queer theory, part film criticism. Check it out!
Episodes
8 episodes
Terms of Endearment
Get your tissues, gurl. This is for the kids who love to cry. And laugh, and cry, and laugh, and then cry again. I know we love it. This movie asks, among other questions, what does it mean to be a woman? And while right-wing pundits hammer tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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49:10
Schizopolis
I was too embarrassed to tell Steven Soderbergh how much I loved him while I was working for him, so instead we made this podcast about one of his most interesting and least recognized movies. What's queer about this one? Mainly how the nature ...
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Episode 6
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46:54
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Is this Richard Dreyfuss at his most Bushwick homosexual? Is leaving your family to climb aboard an alien spaceship a form of queer liberation? Do multi-jointed spider-humanoid aliens qualify as twinks because they're thin and hairless? Well, I...
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Episode 5
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1:17:32
Punch-Drunk Love
Is it only natural to be envious of Paul Thomas Anderson's career? Is Emily Watson an alien? Could a movie like this survive modern neurodivergence discourse without becoming a movie about two autistic adults falling in weird love? Let's revisi...
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Episode 4
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1:05:24
Gummo
This one is for the film buffs. This one is NOT for people who really love cats. We discuss weird teenage bodies, dire socioeconomic situations, and Chloe Sevigny kissing Bunny Boy. Is this a science fiction movie? Not really, but Werner Herzog...
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Episode 3
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51:05
The Truman Show
Do you have main character syndrome? As maladjusted queers, we certainly do. Know who REALLY had main character syndrome? Truman Burbank. Named for the giant soundstage that consumed the town of Burbank CA in The Truman Show. Come with us as we...
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Episode 2
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1:04:34
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
In this episode we revisit a world where cartoons inexplicably live among humans as second class citizens. Just as inexplicable are the licensing agreements required to get WB and Disney characters on screen at the same time as peripheral chara...
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Episode 1
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1:15:29
Queer Projection: Introduction (or Never Stop Beginning)
The usual introductory episode where we cover the basics - who we are, what this podcast is about, and why we think it's important for queer people to see their experiences reflected in ALL art, whether it was made explicitly for queer people o...
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Season 1
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