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These are movies that give me the same energy:

Uncle frank

Stella's last weekened

Then came you

Banana spilt

Unpregnant

Spontaneous

Like they all give me a dysfunctional family dynamic vibe but also give off some homely vibes Idk what I'm talking about. And like I would only watch them once but still think they were great ass movies.

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(via Kat’s Top 10 TV Movies of 2020) 


Every movie this year, wasn’t just a movie; it was a connection to the outside world, a form of escapism during a tumultuous experience — a way to get lost in a story, and away from reality, even if just for a little while.




Check out my Top 10 TV Movies Of 2020, and let me know what you would have put on your list!

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American Beauty 1999 dir. Sam Mendes

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Films I’ve been watching in quarantine 💫

Tom at the farm (2013)

The discovery (2017)

Mickey and the bear (2019)

Before sunrise (1995)

Midsommar (2019)

Columbus (2017)

Salt (2010)

Rift (2017)

Each a deep and thought provoking story. I try to pick films that dig deep, go beyond, and explore unique concepts or that make basic concepts their own. Some of these have astounding stories, some have beautiful cinematography, some just are comforting in their simplicity and that’s okay. I hope you enjoy if you do decide to watch one of these films and I love you all ♥️

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My Top 10 Favorite LGBT+ Films of 2010-2019 (in order of release year):

Laurence Anyways // dir. Xavier Dolan, 2012.

Out in the Dark // dir. Michael Mayer, 2012. 

Tom at the Farm // dir. Xavier Dolan, 2013. 

Boys // dir. Mischa Kamp, 2014. 

The Way He Looks // dir. Daniel Ribiero, 2014. 

Pride // dir. Matthew Warchus, 2014. 

Tangerine // dir. Sean Baker, 2015. 

120 BPM // dir. Robin Campillo, 2017. 

God’s Own Country // dir. Francis Lee, 2017.

Just Friends // dir. Annemarie van de Mond, 2018. 

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This porno didn’t fuck around

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Me duele la cabeza

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oddly specific aesthetic playlists

for when you’re overcome with the spirit of a 19th century lesbian watching a girl take off her petticoat for the first time

girls with dark hair and even darker eyes, empty marbled halls echoing with memories of centuries past, ancient leather bound books written in dead languages, thick sweaters to overcome the persistent chill that unfailingly seeps through the stone walls

you’ve been wandering around the old woods behind your house for a few hours now and you’re not sure if you’ve stumbled into a fey realm or not, but either way you’re like 90% sure you saw a dryad

for when you’re really feeling that morally grey witch vibe. just make sure to wait at least 10 minutes and cool down before hexing/cursing anyone

a nostalgic set of songs from my 2000s french childhood

time to long for the touch of another human!! let’s get emo (mostly mitski and also very gay)

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This is my contribution to the meme. Warning for a slight jump in volume.

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Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

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LGBT Movies You Need To Watch

Hello you guys! Here’s a list of LGBT Themed Movies I’ve watched and I thought of sharing them with you. If you have any suggestions you can always drop a message on my dm’s. Here goes:

Appropriate Behavior (2015)

Beach Rats (2017)

Beats Per Minute (BPM) (2017)

Being 17 (2016)

Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)

Boys (Jongens) (2014)

Boy Don’t Cry (1999)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Call Me By Your Name (2018)

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

God’s Own Country (2017)

Holding The Man (2015)

Keep The Lights On (2012)

Love, Simon (2018)

Maurice (1987)

Moonlight (2016)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Stranger By The Lake (2013)

Tangerine (2015)

The Danish Girl (2015)

The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

The Handmaiden (2016)

The Way He Looks (2014)

Tomboy (2011)

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LGBT+ Movies Y’all Should Check

Alright, so here’s my list of LGBT+ movies, which is by no means comprehensive and all-representational, but is based on what I’ve seen and what’s been recommended. 

Like @dramatic-koala, I’m gonna * the one’s I really liked and/or have heard really good things about and I’ll follow each title with title (representation) (genre) (country of release/movie setting). I’ll also denote if I think it’s particularly concerned with identity-exploration or if the main characters include people of color. I haven’t seem ‘em all, so I’m half-guessing some of the representations~

Categorizations

(wlw) Lesbian, bi, pan

(mlm) Gay, bi, pan

(t) Transgender

(gen) Gender

(poc) People of color

(lgb/lgbt) Related to LGB/LGBT+ history or other issues

(id) Related to identity exploration, acceptance, etc.

(dis) Disability

- Carol** (wlw) (drama/romance) (US)

- Moonlight** (mlm, poc, id) (drama) (US)

- Happy Together* (mlm, poc) (drama/romance) (HK)

- But I’m A Cheerleader* (wlw, id) (drama/comedy) (US)

- I Love You Phillip Morris* (mlm) (drama/comedy) (US)

- Pariah* (wlw, poc, id) (drama) (US)

- Love, Simon (mlm, id) (drama/comedy) (US)

- The Kids Are All Right (wlw) (drama/comedy) (US)

- La Vie d'Adèle** or Blue is the Warmest Color (wlw) (drama/romance) (FR)

- The Handmaiden** (wlw, poc) (drama/mystery) (JP, KR)

- Brokeback Mountain* (mlm, id) (drama/romance) (US)

- Velvet Goldmine* (mlm, id) (drama/indie) (UK, US)

- My Own Private Idaho (mlm) (drama/indie) (US)

- Beach Rats* (mlm, id) (drama) (US)

- Jongens* or Boys (mlm, id) (drama/romance) (NL)

- A Single Man* (mlm) (adaptation/drama) (US)

- Paris Is Burning** (t, drag, lgb, poc, gen) (doc) (US)

- Lilting** (mlm, poc) (drama/romance) (UK)

- Una Mujer Fantástica** or A Fantastic Woman (t, poc) (drama) (CL)

- Milk* (mlm) (bio/drama/romance) (US)

- Philadelphia (lgb) (drama) (US)

- Boys Don’t Cry* (t) (doc/drama) (US)

- Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho or The Way He Looks (mlm, dis, poc) (drama/romance) (BR)

- Beautiful Thing (mlm) (drama/romance) (UK)

- Pride (lgbt) (drama/romance) (UK)

- Ma Vie En Rose or My Life in Pink (t) (drama/comedy) (BE)

- Heavenly Creatures (wlw) (drama/crime) (NZ, US)

- Beginners (lgb) (drama/comedy) (US)

- Tangerine* (t, poc) (drama/crime) (US)

- 120 Battements Par Minute* or 120 BPM (lgbt, mlm) (drama) (FR)

- Inxeba or The Wound (mlm, poc) (drama/romance) (SA)

- J'ai Tué Ma Mère or I Killed My Mother (mlm) (drama/indie) (CA)

- Thelma* (wlw, id) (drama/fantasy) (NO)

- God’s Own Country** (mlm) (drama/romance) (UK)

- Mosquita y Mari (wlw, poc, id) (drama) (US)

- Princess Cyd (wlw, id) (drama/romance) (US)

- Noordzee, Texas* or North Sea Texas (mlm) (drama/family) (BE, NL)

- Bound (wlw) (drama/crime) (US)

- Saturday Church (t, id, lgbt, poc) (drama/music) (US)

- Appropriate Behavior (wlw, id, poc) (drama/romance) (US)

- Laurence Anyways (t, id) (drama/romance) (CA)

- Weekend (mlm) (drama/romance) (UK)

- Closet Monster (mlm, id) (drama/mystery) (CA)

- Handsome Devil (mlm, id) (drama/sport) (IE)

- C.R.A.Z.Y. (mlm, id, lgbt) (drama/coming of age) (CA)

- Holding the Man (mlm, lgbt) (drama/romance) (AU)

- Those People (mlm) (drama/romance) (US)

- Mysterious Skin (mlm, id) (drama/coming of age) (US)

- Bound (wlw) (drama/crime) (US)

- Kill Your Darlings (mlm, id, lgb) (thriller/drama) (US)

- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (wlw) (drama/romance) (DE)

- The Miseducation of Cameron Post (wlw, id, lgb) (drama) (UK, US)

- Disobedience* (wlw, lgb) (drama/romance) (US)

- Boy, Erased (mlm, lgb, id) (drama) (US)

- Lovesong (wlw) (drama) (US)

- Vita and Virginia (wlw, lgb) (drama/romance) (UK, IE)

- Call Me By Your Name* (mlm) (drama/romance) (IT, US)

-  Satpralat or Tropical Malady (mlm, poc) (drama/fantasy) (TH)

- Naissance des Pieuvres or Water Lillies (wlw, id) (drama/romance) (FR)

- Rafiki or Friend (wlw, poc, id, lgbt) (drama/romance) (KE)

- We the Animals (mlm, poc, id) (drama) (US)

- A Kid like Jake (id, gen) (drama/family) (US)

- Girl (Lukas Dhont) (t, id) (drama) (BE)

- The Happy Prince (mlm, lgb)  (drama/history) (UK)

- L’Inconnu du Lac or Stranger by the Lake (mlm) (thriller/drama) (FR)

- Saving Face (wlw, poc, id) (indie/drama) (US)

- Margarita, With a Straw (wlw, poc, dis, id) (drama) (IN, US)

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Oldest known cave paintings on the walls of Chauvet Cave in Southern France, as pictured in Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams