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Emilia Perez: an Oscar to the Queer Representation

9Jan

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Emilia Perez: an Oscar to the Queer Representation

And the Nominees Are… Queer Representation is Slaying the SAG Awards! 🎭🌈 Darlings, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards 2025 nominations are out, and wow, it’s giving diversity, it’s serving inclusion, and it’s dripping with queer excellence. 💅 This year’s list of nominees has us gagging—not just for the incredible talent being celebrated but also for what it means for LGBTQ+ representation in the arts. A Spotlight on Queer Brilliance ✨ For years, we’ve been screaming for more LGBTQ+ stories to take centre stage, and the industry is finally starting to listen (took ‘em long enough, eh?). From openly queer actors leading major projects to storylines that explore the nuances of LGBTQ+ lives, this year’s SAG noms are proof that Hollywood is edging closer to reflecting the real world. Th...

Film recommendation: Saint Frances

A small but special film that examines so much of what goes to make up human – particularly female – life shown with warmth and some great taboo-busting. You wait, well, all your life for a film or TV show that mentions period sex and then, guess what, two come along at once. First, Michaela Coel’s searing television series I May Destroy You literally examines a blood clot, then Saint Frances shows us a bed and, yes, faces covered in blood. People who menstruate (yes, I will say that, JKR, because it is valid), we are seen and the taboos are being busted. But Saint Frances is about much, much more than this – it is just an early indicator that this is a film that is real, messy (literally and metaphorically) and will show its characters with their charms and flaws, their reality – an...

Film Recommendation: Appropriate Behaviour

Enjoy Appropriate Behaviour, Desiree Akhavan's endearingly frank, bittersweet self-portrait of life as a bi-sexual Iranian-American Brooklynite. Rewatching Appropriate Behaviour reminded me how rarely we see scrappy, imperfect – ie real – women on screen. And how refreshing it is to see them when one is, or knows, imperfect women (ie all of us!). Let alone bisexual women, who get little exposure in films, and a non-white bisexual woman at that. Akhavan herself plays Shirin, an American-Iranian bisexual woman in her 20s, who is not yet out to her parents. At the start of the film she is just breaking up from her girlfriend and the film flits around its timeline in the same messy way that its protagonist’s mind is processing complicated emotions. Shirin is trying to deal with the end of ...