Is Jo March Queer?

I’d been waiting for Little Women since I heard the whispers of it in 2018. Seeing it on Boxing Day 2019 with my sister and best friend was an experience – I balled my eyes out as the credits rolled. I love the domesticity, the sister spats, the all-star cast. But most of all I…

The Bisexual

The Bisexual – Episode 1 When I saw The Bisexual advertised my queer soul leaped in excitement. Representation for bisexual narratives is horrendous (most LGBTQ+ content is sadly). They’re shown as being greedy, disloyal, confused, promiscuous and so much other problematic crap that manifests into biphobia within the world and the LGBTQ+ community. The term bisexual is…

La Casa de los Tropos

The House of Flowers (La Casa de las Flores) is a Mexican telenovela following the upper-class de la Mora family who own a successful flower shop. It had been on my watch-list for a while as it’d been recommended for people who love Jane the Virgin (WHICH I DO) and I heard it had some…

An Average Love Story

(Spoilers ahead for Love, Simon) Love, Simon has received a lot of praise because it’s the only gay rom com made by a major Hollywood studio (20thCentury Fox). It’s a mainstream film normalising a queer character -it’s been called a ‘breakthrough’ and ‘revolutionary’. But is it really? The main character, Simon, is the straightest gay…

Who Will Make a Man Out of Mulan?

Only recently have I found out that Disney is making a live-action film of Mulan. I was ecstatic – Mulan is one of my favourite Disney characters and ‘I’ll Make a Man Out of You’ is a mother-fucking tune. Only problem – Li Shang isn’t in the film. Although there is no official statement from…