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Queer Projection

Queer Projection

By: Alethia St. Joan and Daniel Carroll
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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!

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  • Mulholland Drive
    Oct 8 2025

    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 and just give up? Maybe not the best movie to watch right now. Or the perfect movie to watch right now. We'll leave that one to you. There's plenty of queer stuff to mine here besides the obvious lesbian sex, which isn't even really that queer - so, sit back, silencio, and remember: this is all a tape recording.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    Sep 10 2025

    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 took that little robot boy's hand. Flesh fairs, fascism, and the terror of parenthood. This gorgeous nightmare has it all. Final episode of the season, and we don't disappoint! Frankly, this is a really trans movie. Find out how!

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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • Terms of Endearment
    Aug 27 2025

    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 that question home for nefarious reasons, we have a much more heartfelt answer brought to us via power-house performances by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. Featuring MacLaine's famous Oscar line "I deserve this, thank you." Now let's hold hands and endure what this podcast (and life) has in store for us.

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    49 mins
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