June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 THE LGBTQ+ STUDIES NEWSLETTER LGBTQ Studies at DePaul June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Table of Contents
Wrapping Up the Year: A Message from Barrie J. Borich, Director 3
Faculty and Alumni Spotlight: Queering the Classroom (and the Inter- 4–7 view): A Conversation with Mycall Riley and em Katzman by Aviv Goldman
Wrapping Up the Year: Recognizing the LGBTQ+ Studies Outstanding 8 Senior
Queer Film Gems You Can Stream at Home 9–14
Art by Toni Kardajis 15–20
Summer 2021 LGBTQ Studies Course Offerings 21
Fall 2021 LGBTQ Studies Course Offerings 22
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Thank you to Cassidy Delahunty for her assistance with InDesign.
Meet Toni Karadjias (she/they), the Queer artist and DePaul student whose work is featured throughout this issue. Hi! My name is Toni, and I’m a senior at DePaul studying Psychology, LGBTQ Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. As an artist, my main goals are to transcend heteronormative expectations of art and LGBTQ people through representation and by encompassing my own experiences through my work. I mainly focus on digital collage, color, and painting as a means to tell different narratives about my life, sexuality, and gender. 2 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Wrapping Up the Year The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter A Message from the LGBTQ Studies Program Director, Barrie J. Borich
Congratulations, everyone!
We have nearly made it to the end of this long, strange year. I am sad to think of all the unfor- gettable students I’ve worked with over the past 15 months or so who I may never meet anywhere but on Zoom or on discussion boards, but I am pleased by how well I did get to know so many of you through virtual means.
I am also proud of all we did accomplish this year, under such difficult circumstances. Our events with Jaquira Díaz and Danez Smith were invigorating and gorgeous, and our classes were rich, engaging, and filled with so many who have been eager to learn the history and intersections of Queer experience. Through the inspired labor of our mighty LGBTQ Studies Program Assis- tant Aviv Goldman, we launched this newsletter, and we are already thinking about how we can do all of this and more next year—at least some of the time together, in the same rooms. ic forms of living. At the same time, we are the Let me take this opportunity to thank you all for ones who once closed the bars and coffeehous- showing up and doing the work. We have all had es—in my day at least—with the Sister Sledge no choice but to “queer” the way we teach and song “We Are Family.” We have always survived learn in 2020–21, and although I started the year through our creativity, as well as through our with my usual very queer methods and syllabi relations with each other. We can’t get back to already in place, the pivots and re-inventions of the always-evolving work of Queer world-build- this Covid-19 time have changed my view of the ing without each other. Big love to all of you, and classroom forever. may all our rooms fill again soon. LGBTQ+ people have always invented the worlds —Barrie J. Borich (she/her), Director of LGBTQ we want to live in, so in many ways we were Studies and Associate Professor in the Depart- as equipped as anyone to build new pandem- ment of English, June 2021
3 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Faculty and Alumni Spotlight The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter Queering the Classroom (and the Interview): a Conversation with Mycall Riley and em Katzman by Aviv Goldman
Mycall Akeem Riley is the LGBTQIA+ Resource Center Coor- Aviv: What did you learn from teaching the intro LGQ dinator at DePaul and currently teaches the LGBTQ Studies class? introductory course (LGQ 150). em Katzman is an LGBTQ Studies alum and a Women and Gender Studies graduate Mycall: I’m always reminded of the very complex messi- student. As a WGS independent ness of queerness. Every time I’ve study project, em worked with My- taught the class, I’m reminded that call as a teaching assistant during folks are on this journey of coming Winter 2020. This winter, I had the to themselves as they are learning privilege of taking Introduction to about these things, and it’s never LGBTQ Studies with Mycall and linear. I don’t even know if queer- em. ness has a shape. I think it’s more amorphous and in moments can I initially set out to conduct two be really intense and overbearing. separate interviews—one with em And then there are other moments and one with Mycall. However, when teaching the class reminds when I approached Mycall and em me that queerness, and engaging about the newsletter, they suggested in queerness, can also be incred- a joint interview. Mycall said he felt ibly subtle, like the way that Lac- like there was something inherent- roix has flavors but is so subtle. It’s ly queer about their collaboration like “Is that lemon flavored?” It’s that would come out in a group in- just the essence of it. I’m reminded terview. Thus, with Mycall and em’s how important community is ev- encouragement, we expanded what ery time I teach this class. I’m re- we thought an interview should minded even more while we’re in look like. During our interview, we the pandemic and while the world talked, moved, and took breaks to is on fire. I think because it’s not marvel at Mycall’s new glasses. As safe for us to come together, it’s ap- we collectively ventured through parent how deeply we do need one various incomplete thoughts, inter- “I think because it’s not safe for another in different ways. ruptions by pets and family mem- bers, and unrelated but equally us to come together, it’s apparent em: One of the things I learned [as important pop culture tangents, em how deeply we do need one Mycall’s teaching assistant] was the remarked that we were queering necessity of peer-to-peer conversa- the interview. This desire for collab- another in different ways.” tions. Sometimes the discussions oration, and this willingness to play would be frustrating because some outside the boundaries, illustrates —Mycall Akeem Riley class members had complicated what makes Mycall and em such valuable contributors to the viewpoints, but those were still the things that I learned the LGBTQ Studies Program. most from. I really appreciate being able to do this with My- call. He’s someone who values making spaces—I don’t think safe is the right word to use—supportive and generative.
4 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Faculty and Alumni Spotlight The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter
“ You need to intentionally include syllabus is white-centered, you need to acknowledge that that’s happening and challenge the works that you are using. works by people who are not just queer LGBTQ Studies as a discipline is deeply flawed within itself; and white and cis—not just the single it’s a very white space. There’s so much work that needs to be done, and if programs aren’t actively making spaces more identity of queer.” —em Katzman supportive then they’re going to continue to be oppressive, I learned the importance of knowing when to move away and LGBT Studies will continue to center whiteness in its and let things sit in a space. work whether they’re trying to or not.
M: One of the things that has always been really dope A: You’ve mentioned how syllabi need to decenter whiteness about em’s and my relationship is that we’ve learned from and the singular identity of queer; what are some markers each other quite a bit. We get to of good syllabi? co-create these spaces. In an In- tro to LGBT Studies class or any e: I think a marker of a good kind of LGBT anything, we have syllabus is the wording of ac- an opportunity to queer not just cessibility/accommodation the topic but also to queer how sections—whether they men- we talk about things—to queer tion trigger/content warnings, answers, to queer how we find extend accommodations be- problems, and to queer conflict. yond diagnosed and record- How do we do all these things in ed disabilities, and contain ways that feel inherently differ- generous late work policies. I ent? think any class that is talking through power, privilege, and A: That moves perfectly into an- oppression should have a state- other question I have, which is ment on content warnings. We what does queering curriculum are not talking about abstract and DePaul spaces look like for ideas; the topics we discuss y’all? have real effects on people and not every student is going e: To me queering curriculum to be ready to talk about and/ means actively looking at nonac- or engage in discussions that ademic sources like memoir and speak to their lives. Students’ videos. If you’re interested in ac- wellness is deeply connected tually queering curriculum, you “If you’re interested in actually to education, and having con- need to be engaging with other tent warnings is one way to works outside of what’s created queering curriculum, you need to be check-in. In terms of content, within the academy because the engaging with other works outside of I want to note that just because academy in itself is inherently a professor assigns readings by anti-queer and just generally what’s created within the academy people of color doesn’t mean oppressive to all marginalized because the academy in itself is in- that the discussions facilitated by the professor are going to people. And so you need to be herently anti-queer.” —em Katzman engaging in ways that are dif- be critical of white supremacy ferent. You need to intentionally and how it also manifests with- include works by people who are not just queer and white in the classroom. Hopefully professors will apply that work and cis—not just the single identity of queer. And if your throughout the class and in their own life.
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“I’m proud of all the things that we’re painting, or film doesn’t have any rigor to it? So let’s talk with students one-on-one about how they’re connecting doing. But my pride doesn’t change the sources to their project. It took more time, but if we’re going fact that there’s still a plethora of work to really challenge spaces to be queer, to be different, to be more liberated, our time has to be used differently. Are we to be done.” —Mycall Akeem Riley just teaching queer things or are we queering the classroom? A: Mycall, what does queering DePaul spaces and curricu- Those are two very different things. lum look like for you? A: What is the value of LGBT Studies, and how can its les- M: I’m proud of folks who have worked really hard to make sons be used in different spaces? DePaul queer spaces what they are, even if only through ill- paid programming assistants in the LGBTQIA+ Resource e: Queer Theory provides a framework to think critical- Center, or the other adjunct faculty and instructors in the ly about the world and yourself. It pushes you to be more LGBTQ Studies program. I’m proud of all the things that thoughtful around your positionality in the world, and how we’re doing. But my pride doesn’t change the fact that there’s that affects systems of oppression, and how we continue to still a plethora of work to be done. And those two things can fight. I don’t think you need to take a Queer Theory class to exist. People say this all the time, but I just want to reiterate: fight. I came out as nonbinary on Tumblr. You don’t need we can walk and chew gum at the same time. I can be proud, to be in an academic space to do that, but if you are in an and I can also believe that there’s a academic space, I think engaging bunch of work to be done. in queer texts and theory gives you more space to think past the One of the things that’s really baseline of what we know, or think important to me as an instructor past single oppressions. It helps is pushing more. Because of the you think more critically about privilege I have as someone who the world. teaches, I feel like I’m in a unique position where I’m really able to I think everyone should take LGQ flex in ways that other people ar- courses because classes that center en’t. And because I’m given some the lives, experiences, and schol- space, I’m realizing the limita- arship of marginalized communi- tions a lot of faculty either put on ties are necessary; they deepen the way we think and interact in the themselves or have put on them. I “If we’re going to really challenge really want faculty to push more. world. They are also more likely to spaces to be queer, to be different, actually engage students past sur- Even when I was thinking about to be more liberated, our time has face level conversations on race, the final project for the intro LGQ power, privilege, and oppression class, I saw that in the past it was to be used differently. Are we just than what occurs in the Sopho- always just a paper. And so that’s teaching queer things or are we more Seminar on Multicultural- what it was going to be. But then ism. I recommend taking LGQ Em and one of my best friends, queering the classroom? Those 150 with Mycall Riley, Queer Charlie, called me in on this and are two very different things.” Theory with Dr. Anne Mitchell, asked, “What if you let people do Transnational LGBTQ Politics whatever? What if you let people —Mycall Akeem Riley with Dr. Sonnet Gabbard, and do their final project in ways that Queer Memoirs with Prof. Barrie look different?” First I thought no, there’s not enough rig- Borich. I have personally taken those classes and learned so or there. But then I said, who decided that someone’s zine, much from them.
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A: That goes into another question I have, which is how vigilant in the ways that we combat these things. would y’all like to see the LGBTQ studies program evolve or change? A: I have to ask, who are your queer icons? e: I think one thing would be faculty-to-faculty collabo- M: I’m going to be cliché. Like every Black queer person, I’ll ration. For example, something where two professors are say James Baldwin. And Audre Lorde. Her work is so vital team-teaching a class or collaborating to create new classes, to me. My good friend Elijah McKinnon, who is a queer art- or re-creating the classes that are currently being taught. I ist. They’re definitely someone I look up to. This is going to think collaborative spaces are very important. I also think sound really cheesy but honestly a lot of the people I look up more student input, and more opportunities for students to to are my students, who are definitely my icons. The young- work as TAs, would be very helpful. I think we should find er folks teach me so many things. They make me think, “Oh ways to work together across programs and departments that’s right; you can do that.” that are supposed to be centered around marginalized people—for e: Audre Lorde is definitely one of example, having more conversa- mine. I love her work, especially tions about what’s on course syl- “The Uses of Anger,” and “Uses labi. of the Erotic.” I reread them all the time. I also really like to lis- M: We have an LGBTQ Studies ten to music. Janelle Monae is Advisory Board. I think it would someone who didn’t come out be really interesting to have some until a while after I was already sort of an LGBT Studies Student listening to her, thinking, “This is Advisory Board. What if we had very queer.” And when she came an advisory board that was made out, I was like, “Oh, okay, perfect. of students and faculty togeth- “I think everyone should take LGQ This is someone who I’ve already er? I want the LGBT Studies looked up to.” Program to be connected to courses because classes that center the broader Queer community the lives, experiences, and scholar- It’s so embarrassing, but I’d also in Chicago. I think that’s a big say Mycall, as well as Charee challenge of mine as I contin- ship of marginalized communities Mosby-Holloway, who was the ue teaching and spending time are necessary; they deepen the way Assistant Director for Social Jus- with LGBTQ Studies. I want us tice Initiatives at DePaul’s Center to be more connected to the city. we think and interact in the world.” for Identity, Inclusion, and So- And what if we had a brown bag, —em Katzman cial Change before it was shut Queer in the Academy lunch down, and Jireh L. Drake who where every quarter, the LGBT Studies program highlighted was very active in DePaul’s queer spaces. I remember I was a student and a faculty member to be in conversation over at this SoJA [Social Justice Advocates] speak-out when Jireh what it means for them to be engaged in queerness within first talked about abolition. That moment shifted what kind the academy? of work I was doing, and why.
I think a lot of queer spaces need to do interrogation around M: I want to add Charee Mosby-Holloway for sure. They the ways they center whiteness, white supremacy, ableism, are hands down a huge part of seeing myself and under- and class. Historically, academic spaces were for very mon- standing how I could bring queerness into my work. Even eyed, rich, cis, men. Our institutions have to remember that though being gay is part of my job, Charee really helped me they weren’t always keen on opening themselves up to a both lean into that and lean out of that in a way that I didn’t variety of marginalized communities. We have to be really know was possible.
7 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Wrapping Up the Year The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter Congratulations to Sam Marks, the recipient of the LGBTQ+ Studies Outstanding Senior Award!
Sam is a senior in DePaul’s Human Services Psychology concentration and an artist, cat- dad, and husband. They seek to incorporate disability justice, prison industrial complex abolition, and their experiences as a disabled trans person into their work as a human ser- vices practitioner. Their goal is to be able to provide children with free, justice-oriented art therapy.
8 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Queer Film Gems You Can Stream at Home The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter by Aviv Goldman
I love queer movies, but they always seem so few and far between. Tired of being suggested Blue is the Warmest Color and Love, Simon for the hundredth time, I set out to compile a list of diverse and under-acknowledged queer films. Through my search, I discovered beautiful, complex, and positive queer stories ranging from dra- mas to comedies and from indie to mainstream. My hope is that everyone can find something in this list that they’d like to sit down and watch!
Thank you to Professor Dan Pal, adjunct faculty in CDM, for helping to develop this list.
THE HANDMAIDEN DISCLOSURE: TRANS TANGERINE (2015) (2016) LIVES ON SCREEN (2020)
It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown 1930s Korea, in the period of and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Japanese occupation, a new girl An unprecedented, eye-opening Upon hearing that her pimp boy- (Sookee) is hired as a handmaid- look at transgender depictions in friend hasn’t been faithful during en to a Japanese heiress (Hideko). film and television, revealing how the 28 days she was locked up, the But the maid has a secret. She is a Hollywood simultaneously reflects working girl and her best friend, pickpocket recruited by a swindler and manufactures our deepest anx- Alexandra, embark on a mission to posing as a Japanese Count to help ieties about gender. Leading trans get to the bottom of the scandalous him seduce the Lady to elope with thinkers and creatives, including rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey him, rob her of her fortune, and Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, leads them through various subcul- lock her up in a madhouse. The Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie tures of Los Angeles, including an plan seems to proceed according to Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share Armenian family dealing with their plan until Sookee and Hideko dis- their reactions and resistance to own repercussions of infidelity. cover some unexpected emotions. some of Hollywood’s most beloved —magpicturesinternational.com —tv.apple.com moments. —disclosurethemovie. com Genre: Comedy Genre: Crime/Drama Genre: Documentary Where to watch: Prime Video or Where to watch: Prime Video rent from YouTube for $2.99 Where to watch: Netflix
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DUCK BUTTER (2018) I CARRY YOU WITH ME PRINCESS CYD (2017) (2021)
Two women, who are dissatisfied A 16-year-old girl visits her aunt with the dishonesty they see in Tells the true story of an undocu- in Chicago for the summer. While dating and relationships, decide to mented gay couple from Mexico there, she falls for another girl, and make a pact to spend 24 hours to- who risk their lives for love, liberty, she and her aunt challenge each gether hoping to find a new way to and the American Dream. —Variety other’s sex and spirit. —IMDB create intimacy. —IMDB Genre: Drama Genre: Romance/Drama Genre: Drama/Comedy/Romance Where to watch: Coming to the- Where to watch: Hulu, Prime Video Where to watch: Netflix aters May 21, 2021 THE FEELS (2017) A FANTASTIC WOMAN FUNNY BOY (2020) (2017)
The Feels is an improvised – that’s Explores Arjie’s sexual awakening right, improvised – dramedy about Exquisitely compassionate portrait from a young boy to a teenager who a bachelorette party for a lesbian of a trans woman whose mourning falls in love with a male classmate, couple. One of the brides-to-be ad- for a lost lover is obstructed at every just as political tensions escalate be- mits that she’s never had an orgasm, turn by individual and institutional tween the Sinhalese and Tamils in derailing the planned festivities. prejudice. —Variety the years leading up to the 1983 up- —Buzzfeed risings. —IMDB Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy Genre: Drama Where to watch: Rent from Prime Where to watch: Netflix Video, YouTube, or Apple TV for Where to watch: Netflix $3.99
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THE WAY HE LOOKS BIT (2019) BREAKING FAST (2020) (2014)
While visiting L.A., a young trans A romantic comedy that follows A Brazilian coming-of-age film teen is befriended and then bitten Mo, a practicing Muslim still reel- about Leonardo, a blind high by a gang of feminist vampires. ing from heartbreak. When an schooler frustrated with his lack With its quick wit and nuanced All-American guy named Kal offers of independence, and Gabriel, a female relationships, Bit is equal to join him in his nightly Iftars—the new student. —Buzzfeed parts Buffy the Vampire Slayer and traditional meal eaten by Muslims Thelma and Louise. —Buzzfeed during Ramadan—meal after meal, Genre: Romance/Drama the two start to discover they have Genre: Horror/Comedy more in common than meets the Where to watch: Prime Video or eye. —breakingfastfilm.com. Where to watch: Tubi or rent from rent from YouTube for $2.99 YouTube or Prime Video for $3.99 Genre: Romance/Drama
BOY MEETS GIRL (2014) BUT I’M A Where to watch: Prime Video, Hulu CHEERLEADER (1999) THE HALF OF IT (2020)
A romantic dramedy about a trans teen who dreams of be- A naive teenager is sent to rehab When smart but cash-strapped teen ing a fashion designer and finds camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a Ellie Chu agrees to write a love let- herself falling for her best friend lesbian. —IMDB ter for a jock, she doesn’t expect to since childhood. —amazon.com become his friend—or fall for his Genre: Satire/Comedy crush. —IMDB Genre: Romance/Drama Where to watch: YouTube, Vudu Genre: Romance/Comedy Where to watch: Prime Video, Tubi Where to watch: Netflix 11 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Queer Film Gems You Can Stream at Home The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter
BRIEF STORY FROM THE sembly, and they find themselves ALEX STRANGELOVE GREEN PLANET (2019) drawn to each other. Soon their (2018) interest grows to affection and the girls find ways to love each other despite the ever-watching gaze of the neighborhood. —Rotten Tomatoes
Genre: Romance/Drama After her grandmother dies, Ta- A high school senior plans on los- nia, a trans woman, must travel Where to watch: Hulu, Prime ing his virginity to his girlfriend. through rural Argentina to de- Video Things get complicated when he liver an alien to safety. Over the meets a handsome and charming course of her extraterrestrial pil- A SECRET LOVE (2020) gay kid who unwittingly sends him grimage, she realizes that she's on a roller-coaster journey of sexual much stronger than she previ- identity. —Rotten Tomatoes ously thought. —Buzzfeed Genre: Romance/Comedy Genre: Drama Where to watch: Netflix Where to watch: Prime Video APPROPRIATE A Secret Love tells the story of Ter- BEHAVIOR (2014) RAFIKI (2019) ry Donahue, a former All-American Girl’s Professional League Baseball player and her partner of 70 years, Pat Henschel. The documentary is sparked by Terry and Pat having to make a decision about where they are going to spend their retirement years. This life change forces the couple to face the fact that they have Kena and Ziki live very different A secretly bisexual Brooklynite hidden their love from their fami- lives in Nairobi. Kena works in from a traditional Persian family lies for most of their relationship. struggles with her identity and the her father's shop and awaits the —The Film Magazine start of nursing school, while Ziki disintegration of her relationship with her girlfriend. —Rotten Toma- passes the days hanging out with Genre: Documentary toes her friends and making up dance routines. Their paths cross when Where to watch: Netflix Genre: Comedy their fathers run against each other for seats in the County As- Where to watch: Prime Video 12 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Queer Film Gems You Can Stream at Home The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter
THE INCREDIBLY TRUE larious mother-daughter comedy Recruited by the U.S. government ADVENTURE OF TWO was written and directed by Al- for their unique ability to lie, cheat GIRLS IN LOVE (1995) ice Wu (the writer and director and fight, Amy, Max, Janet, and of The Half of It). —Buzzfeed Dominique join an underground academy of secret agents known only as D.E.B.S. These crime fight- Genre: Romance/Comedy ing hotties set out to save the world and keep their lipstick perfectly ap- Where to watch: Prime Video plied while doing so. When D.E.B.S. star player, Amy, falls for Lucy, cha- EK LADKI KO DEKHA os erupts and the D.E.B.S. loyalty is TOH AISA LAGA (HOW put to the test. —IMDB The story of Randy, a work- I FELT WHEN I SAW ing-class teenage lesbian, who THAT GIRL) (2019) Genre: Comedy/Romance meets Evie, a popular and wealthy classmate. What starts Where to watch: Tubi or rent from as a friendship quickly blossoms Prime Video for 2.99 into attraction, leading them ESTEROS (2016) both into a world of taboo love. —amazon.com
Genre: Romance/Comedy The film tells the story of Sweety Where to watch: YouTube Chaudhary, a closeted lesbian, and her attempts to come out to SAVING FACE (2005) her conservative and traditional [Punjabi] family. —IMDB Two male childhood friends—one now an uptight scientist and the Genre: Romance/Comedy other openly gay with a bohemian lifestyle—reconnect as adults and Where to watch: Netflix explore their long-repressed feel- ings for each other. —Rotten Tomatoes/The Hollywood D.E.B.S (2004) Reporter
The film revolves around Wil Genre: Romance/Drama (a successful surgeon who hides her sexuality from her family), Where to watch: Prime Video, Gao (Wil's mother who becomes Tubi, Vudu pregnant out of wedlock), and Vivian (Wil's girlfriend). This hi- 13 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2 Queer Film Gems You Can Stream at Home The LGBTQ+ Studies Newsletter
WATERMELON WOMAN THE OLD GUARD (2020) MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY (1996) (2021)
A group of un-killable mercenaries A young black lesbian filmmaker who’ve been operating in secret for Set in the sun-drenched vineyards probes into the life of The Wa- centuries—a squad of functionally of southern France, two newlywed termelon Woman, a 1930s black immortal, mostly queer, stone cold musicians adjusting to their new actress who played 'mammy' ar- badasses who’ve fought on every European life get a sudden visit chetypes. —IMDB battlefield in history. —Entertain- from Lane, the former third party ment Weekly/polygon.com in their polyam›orous relationship Genre: Romance/Comedy back in New Orleans. —siff.net Genre: Action/Fantasy Where to watch: Prime Video, Genre: Drama/Romance Where to watch: Netflix Hulu, YouTube Where to watch: Coming to the- IMAGINE ME AND YOU aters August 20, 2021 PARIAH (2011) (2005) A SKELETON IN THE CLOSET (2020)
Teenage Alike lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood with A refreshingly unconventional and her parents and younger sister. A witty comedy about love's constant lesbian, Alike quietly embraces her surprises, Imagine Me & You begins Manu, a gay prodigal son, returns identity and is looking for her first as a young bride discovers love at home to fight for his parents’ ap- lover, but she wonders how much first sight on the day of her wed- proval. He leads his loved ones out she can truly confide in her family. ding. —searchlightpictures.com of the dark and into the light where —Rotten Tomatoes they all can shine. —amazon.com Genre: Romance/Comedy Genre: Drama/Romance Genre: Drama/comedy Where to watch: Rent from You- Tube or Prime Video for $3.99 Where to watch: Netflix Where to watch: Prime Video 14 Art by Toni Karadjias June 2021|Vol. 1#2 15 June 2021 | Vol. 1 #2
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