Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a beautiful star-crossed lesbian love story, and it’s important to call it as such.
“I am of the generation of Lgbtq youth that is comfortable calling myself queer as well as bisexual. For a lot of us, the broadness of the term delivers shorthand communication of who we are, especially if we have multiple terms under multiple parts of the queer umbrella. At the same time, that does not mean we need to force everything into that term and ignore the labels that people use for themselves. That is why it is important to call Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire a lesbian movie.”
Read more at The Mary Sue.
If you can’t remember the last time you saw a romantic comedy with a female disabled lead, it’s because there’s never been one.
“When was the...
“I am of the generation of Lgbtq youth that is comfortable calling myself queer as well as bisexual. For a lot of us, the broadness of the term delivers shorthand communication of who we are, especially if we have multiple terms under multiple parts of the queer umbrella. At the same time, that does not mean we need to force everything into that term and ignore the labels that people use for themselves. That is why it is important to call Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire a lesbian movie.”
Read more at The Mary Sue.
If you can’t remember the last time you saw a romantic comedy with a female disabled lead, it’s because there’s never been one.
“When was the...
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- by Ivan Huang
- Den of Geek
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