Queerly Recommended

The vaccination rate of the podcast continues to improve as Tara discovers the sole benefit of being in her 40s. Kris, forever young, welcomes her with grace and aplomb. Seriously, though, if you can get vaccinated, you should.

What else? Oh yeah, the podcast.

Kris and Tara muse over coffees loved and lost, the fiery appeal of the iciest of queens and yes, dear listeners, they even answer some of your questions. For official recommendations this week, we have f/f romance, The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley from Tara and Kris brings home the queer film The Thing About Harry.

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Also discussed:

• Edge of Glory by Rachel Spangler
• 52 Best Thawing The Ice Queen Books from The Lesbian Review
• Stow Away (Netflix)
• The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
• Cruel Summer (Freeform)
• RuPaul's Drag Race - US, Australia
• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
• Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur
• The Thing About Harry (2020)
• The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley

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In this week’s episode of Queerly Recommended, Kris and Tara answer your questions before wading out into the weeds of bank security questions, rank betrayal by a trusted sister (trusted no more), the emotional ending of Wynonna Earp and their preferred audiobook read speed.

The big recommendations this week are Pretend It’s a City (Netflix) from Tara and Summerland (Netflix) from Kris.

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Also discussed:

• Wynonna Earp
• Shameless
• Ted Lasso (Apple TV)
• Thunder Force (Netflix)
• High School by Tegan and Sara
• The Lesbian Period Drama Sketch by SNL

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This is what happens when you record on a Monday.

Hello, friends! Things get a bit punchy this week on Queerly Recommended. Kris and Tara start off by recommending…vaccines! You should get’em if you can. Then they’re back in fighting form and solving a murder. Or plotting one? Listen, if you ask silly questions, you get silly answers.

For official recommendations, Kris brings us the film Boy Meets Girl from 2014 and Tara delights over rock documentary The Go-Go’s. And that’s just officially. Unofficially, they recommend a buttload more. We're not going to quantify buttload for you. We’re all adults here.

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Also discussed:

• Barbara Ann Wright (author)
• D. Jackson Leigh (author)
• KB Draper (author)
• Merry Shannon (Legends of Ithyria series)
• Heather Rose Jones (Alpennia series, starts with Daughter of Mystery)
• Fruit of the Golden Vine by Sophia French
• The One (Netflix)
• Walking Dead Finale
• Ted Lasso (Apple TV)
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch)
• All I Ever Wanted: A Rock n’ Roll Memoir by Kathy Valentine

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Did we stutter? No!

This week, Tara and Kris are joined by lesfic luminary Georgia Beers. Together, they talk about Georgia’s recommendations for queer media, what she wants to see more of and how sites like Does the Dog Die help viewers navigate the painful tropes associated with queer media.

Somewhere in there, they cast a future Jane Bond and contemplate what a queer Taken would look like. Topping it off, Georgia gives us a peek behind the curtain at her books coming this year, The Secret Poet and The Swizzle Stick Romances. The wait is over. Enjoy!

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Also discussed:

• Boys Don’t Cry (movie)
• Happiest Season (movie)
• The Old Guard (Netflix)
• Imagine Me and You (movie)
• Single All The Way (Netflix)
• Summerland (movie)
• Vita & Virginia (movie)
• Melissa Brayden (author)
• Rachel Spangler (author)
• Kristan Higgins (author)
• Jill Shalvis (author)
• Ann Padgett (author)
• The World to Come (movie)
• Portrait of a Lady On Fire (movie)
• Gentleman Jack (tv series)
• Fleabag (tv series)

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You’ve met Thirsty Kris, but could we interest you in meeting…Baby Tara?

This week, our fearless hosts reach that point in every podcaster’s life where you Google and read things up on sites while you’re recording. Don’t worry, they’re not looking for recommendations. They’re full to brimming with them.

Tara discusses the video game Children of Morta before standing behind her queer recommendation for the week, Nottingham but Anna Burke. And after Kris’ foray into Netflix’s The One, she shares that SHE WAS RIGHT and Dickinson (Apple TV) is as amazing as she thought.

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Also discussed:

• The World to Come
• https://www.doesthedogdie.com/does-an-lgbt-person-die
• The Lammy Awards (Lambda Literary) and the Foreword Indies Finalists
• The One (Netflix)
• Children of Morta (Nintendo Switch)
• A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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This week Kris exchanges calling from a phone booth to staggering in with a hangover. From praising the qualities of Jif peanut butter to cursing the six peanut-butter-flavoured whiskeys she had on her Patreon exclusive podcast the night before. Tara, as always, remains sober, but—in a twist—brings quotes!

Together they answer questions about which of Kris’s characters they’d sleep with, marry, or date, and what brought them into FF/wlw fiction.

For the big recommendations of the week, Kris delivers with the movies Becks and Almost Love, while Tara goes over the moon and back with Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers.

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Also discussed:

• Drunk Lesfic with Rachel Spangler
• Drum up the Dawn: Galaxy Girl Book One by Kate Christie
• Dickenson (Apple TV Plus)
• More Beautiful for Having Been Broken (movie)
• WandaVision (Disney+)
• Knit, Purl, A Baby and A Girl by Hettie Bell

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This week, Kris calls in all the way from a 1980s phone booth, otherwise known as the polar vortex. It’s been a wild one, but Tara and Kris get right down to what matters. Peeps over peanut butter? Smooth versus chunky? Don’t worry, Kris remains on the right side of history and she’s ready, if not eager, to fight you. All of you.

Along with (checks notes) a veritable buttload of games and movies, there’s still the big recommendations of the week. Tara's bringing along Later Daters, a dating sim from Bloom Digital that she adored, and Kris is pulling out the discography of her life with the (sadly, starring Kristen Stewart) rock and roll movie, The Runaways.

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Kris and Tara also discuss:

• Stardew Valley (game)
• Last of Us series (game)
• Dream Daddy (game)
• Gone Home (game)
• A Normal Lost Phone (game)
• Night in the Woods (game)
• The X Ingredient by Roslyn Sinclair
• The Super Heroes Union: Dynama Ruth Diaz
• The Super Heroine Collection, Ylva Publishing
• The Power of Mercy and A Lover’s Mercy Fiona Zedde
• Chasing Stars Alex K Thorne
• Flora and Ulysseus (Disney Plus Movie)
• Mulan and Aladdin Live Action
• Always Be My Maybe (Netflix)
• RuPaul’s Drag Race (of course, of course)
• Animal Crossing New Horizons
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

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This week marks The Cancellation of Wynonna Earp by the Coward Capitalism. During her grief, Kris notices the correlation between her liking things and them immediately getting cancelled. Can she use this power for good?

Also, Tara reiterates her position on not wanting to see naked strangers, and the first listener question brings about a change in one of our hosts.

This week’s recommendations are Hotel Queens by Lee Winter and the powerful but difficult documentary L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin. Luckily we’ve got The Ten Year Plan to wash it down.

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Kris and Tara discuss:

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Stroke of Fate by Renee Roman
• The Princess Affair by Nell Stark
• Party of Three by Sandy Lowe
• Her Best Friend’s Sister by Meghan O’Brien
• The Butch and the Beautiful by Kris Ripper
• Lise MacTague’s On Deception’s Edge series and Breaking Out
• Modern English by Rachel Spangler
• 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star (television series)
• Hades (Again! But probably for the last time)
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
• Hotel Queens by Lee Winter
• L Word Mississippi: Hate The Sin (documentary)
• The Ten Year Plan (movie)

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This week starts off with a brief but important discussion about the day after inauguration. Tara and Kris reflect on the feeling of holding your breath for four years, the perils of burnout and how nice it is to feel a little bit hopeful.

Thankfully they follow it up with Tara’s favourite book of the decade (Vivek Shraya’s The Subtweet) and passionate lady-sex (the Kate Winslet movie, Ammonite) along with a host of other suggestions, confessions and recommendations. It’s a real journey.

This week, Tara and Kris queerly recommend:

• QR superfans, including fantastic authors, Fiona Riley and Cathy Pegau
• Burnout by Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
• Jojo Siwa
• Hades (again!)
• Salvation (television series)
• Spontaneous
• News of the World
• RuPaul’s Drag Race (this one’s pretty much always going to be here)
• Lawrence Cheney
• Outlawed by Anna North
• The Queen’s Gambit (minus the ever present rapey vibe)
• The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
• Ammonite

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They didn’t turn to salt, but holy shit what happened these last couple of weeks? Tara and Kris start off discussing the attempted American insurrection before getting into what they love. And this week? They love a lot. Dolly Parton, Anna Burke, Hades, Bridgerton, Nora Roberts (that fucking badass). Their official recommendations for this week are Tara’s favourite book of all time (Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan and Salem West) and the TV show that captured Kris’s heart and attention (Wynonna Earp).

It’s a good episode. And what did it cost them? Friends, apparently. Kris has no more friends now. They know what they did. Seriously. Listen to find out.

This week, Tara and Kris queerly recommend:

• Scent by Kris Bryant
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Nora Fucking Roberts
• Hades (Nintendo Switch)
• Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton
• Bridgerton (Netflix)
• Spindrift by Anna Burke
• Football! (As long as our team is playing)
• Pride and Prejudice (the one with Colin Firth, aka the only real one)
• Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan and Salem West
• Wynonna Earp
• ClexaCon

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Before jumping into 2021 with both feet and a prayer, Kris and Tara tempt turning into pillars of salt and look back at some of their favourite queer content that got them through Hell Year. 

Tara starts off first with Who We Could Be by Chelsea M. Cameron and Kris takes us home with Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters. 

This week, Tara and Kris queerly recommend:

• Schitt’s Creek
• RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party)
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Dexter
• Who We Could Be by Chelsea Cameron
• Teenage Bounty Hunters
• Wrong Number, Right Woman by Jae
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

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Look, fuck 2020. It took our time, our mobility, our security and for some of us, our lives. Locked in our houses, bored to all variety of tears, we searched for the things that made us happy. Out of that trashfire, SO MANY PODCASTS were born. And among those? Us.

This one. Queerly Recommended is a bi-weekly podcast where critic (fancy for book reviewer) Tara Scott and award-winning author (just fancy), Kris Bryant, introduce themselves and give you an idea of what to expect going forward. So sit back, relax in your fallout shelter, and get to know them a little.

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• Visit Kris’s website
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• Follow Tara on Twitter

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