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
19 episodes
Batman Returns
Put your catsuit on, cutie. And let's take a psychosexual gothic ride through the most subversive Batman installment to date. Who truly captures the freak flag in this movie? The deformed, bile-spewing Danny DeVito masterclass? The timid bachel...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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51:39
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Our hearts explode for Uma in this episode. Come wriggle your way outta that lonely grave and enjoy the end of this bloody ride. Have fun!
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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46:22
Titanic
Use the restroom before this one. We dive deep down to where many a podcast has gone before to try and find some unanswered questions about the biggest blockbuster of our youth. Why do lesbians love Jack so much? Why did I start crying about cl...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:46:20
Scream
SOMEONE’S TAKEN THEIR LOVE OF QUEER THEMES ONE STEP TOO FAR! Is this camp, is this parody, is this satire? We juggle these ideas as Danny grapples with his patent dislike of slasher films. Is Scream the exception? Let's find out! Happy Hallowee...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:14:26
BONUS: One Battle After Another
Holding off on our Halloween episode a couple days for a minor medical recovery - in the meantime, we bring you our first formula breaking BONUS EPISODE. Paul Thomas Anderson constructed our teenage personalities - so any time a PTA movie comes...
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Season 2
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29:43
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Here comes the bride! Lots of stuff in this one. Is revenge queer? How often does Quentin Tarantino win shouting matches with journalists? And why does a bloody, violent tour de force of vengeance resonate so strongly with the rainbow mafia? Is...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:19:05
Clueless
What is growth, what is change? Is it Di accidentally getting on the freeway? Tye using ‘sporadically’ in a sentence? Is it Cher finding love in the unlikeliest of places in this fairy tale vision of Beverly Hills circa 1995? We're stretching t...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:12:41
Mulholland Drive
Here we go, it's Season 2! Kicking things off with the nightmares and dreamscapes of David Lynch's Hollywood, including the wig that made Naomi Watts. Do you feel like maybe you're at the end of your rope and ready to cash in all your dreams an...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:12:39
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
What is the nature of consciousness? Will we ever have a child actor the likes of Haley Joel Osment again? Does "protect the dolls" extend to little robot boys? Take our hand and come with us to a magical land, just like Jude Law's robot gigolo...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:55:29
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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10:16