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Queer Projection

Queer Projection

Written 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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  • Magnolia (First Tape)
    Jan 15 2026

    It's time to tackle one of the most important movies in our decades long friendship. How is this our favorite movie if it isn't even our favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie? What was it about this frog-fallin' fantasia of human suffering that dealt such a glancing blow to our adolescent brains? We take apart this treasured ensemble film to try and see what made it tick, and why after so many years it still sits at the front of our minds. We're celebrating this movie in TWO parts, just like the OG VHS tape that we watched way back when. Enjoy!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Being John Malkovich
    Dec 19 2025

    We ping pong back and forth between this movie being really understanding of the trans experience to thinking it's pretty damn transphobic. I mainly had no memory of this movie being so trans - glad we're revisiting! I'm kinda not okay! But either way, we love love love Charlie Kaufman, the poor bastard. Enjoy!

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    55 mins
  • Batman Returns
    Dec 4 2025

    Put your catsuit on, cutie. And let's take a psychosexual gothic ride through the most subversive Batman installment to date. Who truly captures the freak flag in this movie? The deformed, bile-spewing Danny DeVito masterclass? The timid bachelorette who finally smashes the neon and cracks the feline whip? Or the millionaire sadboi dipweed (with a butler) who can yank their mask off like it's made of Play-Doh? Let's find out ! Happy holidays!

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    52 mins
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