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The comp has new and exclusive music from bands like Osees, Gen Pop, Germ House, and UK Gold. Some stuff that had fallen out of print (The Primitives 2016 cover of "Been Hiding" by The Aislers Set), and then some songs bands gave us just to be a part of it. This also relates to the sense I have about the “flippancy” of the way politics have been discussed around your book. We’re living in times where everything we do is archived, if not immediately reported online, so it makes sense that someone would adopt a strategy of slant, ironized or even coded meanings. I’m mostly thinking about The Cut article and how people responded to the playful and almost blasphemous pull-quotes about a few political issues. After I read it, he immediately opened YouTube and found Krystle Cole, the infamous Krystle Cole! It was almost sacrilegious to me seeing her, but then she was as magical, as perfect as I could’ve imagined. There’s something about loving something so much that you want to leave it unconsumed. It’s that fear of exhausting your satiety. Fear of the edible. Of losing what you have. Marla’s demise was not inconceivable, given her utter disregard for the people whose lives her greed destroyed, but it begs the question: why do so many (cis-het, white) male villains not only survive, but also often thrive after their misdeeds? What message does this send out to the thousands of queer women watching this film, hoping for a glimmer of representation and the happy endings that are by no means such a rarity in real life?

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Rachel : Yeah, we’re a post-Gurlesque period. And yeah, the “Gurlesque,” a term Arielle Greenberg coined in 1999, sitting in her kitchen (maybe she was in grad school then? She went on to work in academia) after noticing a trend in poetry by women but also in music, in film-making. As Sandra said, it was very white, it was also pretty hetero-centric, and I think, with many more traditionally “academic poets” in the anthology, there are maybe class dimensions that also went into the Gurlesque—that makes sense why it was a sort of “feminist” poetry that when it was about sex wasn’t about economics, maybe more about objectification. There are certain socializations that goes in that. I think many people are socialized and have a certain disdain for trans and queer people,” said Tori Cooper of the Human Rights Campaign, a national organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community. Cooper is the director of community engagement for the organization’s Transgender Justice Initiative. For me, Elaine’s book goes into something more metaphysical than gender roles and compulsive heterosexuality, beyond bio-essentialism while still rooted in, as she puts it “Romeo & Juliet & Elaine.” I apologize as my project with romance maybe doesn’t relate to the Gurlesque? Or does it? I mean I am interested in queer romance but also my formative history of heterosexual romance, and how it continues in my bisexuality, in my work as a sex worker. The kind of romantic conditioning that is thrust upon us all and how that’s shaped me. How I love or hate it or question it or want it. The gag strips are mostly unfunny. Some of the historical comics and the ones abt other countries are decent but some of them are quite dry.

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Ben Fama: I wanted to have a conversation about how the Gurlesque tradition has responded to and been transformed by our current climate of social justice, and what you each see happening now with other writers and in your own work. Can we start by each of you telling me what books are on your nightstand, so to speak?

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I think about this lens when it comes to attitudes to sex work, a lot. I think what makes all women want to speculate on sex work, and also makes them nervous, is that it often seems like sex work is a labor that’s available to basically every woman, whether or not that’s true. (Maybe it kind of is but there are things like racism and ableism that make it harder or sometimes impossible to work etc.) (And even if it’s available, we know it’s trans workers and workers of color who face more violence that can be fatal.) The study also found that sexual and gender minorities are burglarized at twice the rate of other households, and that they’re more likely to be victims of other types of property theft.

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Rachel : The Gurlesque anthology, at least the one I am looking at was released in 2010, and Arielle’s definition has me revisiting the semiotext(e) book Theory of the Young Girl, which was released in 2012. I actually read both of these books in 2012. Just as every other new film with queer female representation, I Care A Lot was discussed intensely on the Internet following its release. Division was particularly strong over its ending. In the last two minutes of an otherwise enjoyable film, it seemed as though its two protagonists would receive a happy ending. As almost every queer person knows, happy endings to stories about us are incredibly rare, so much so that the “Bury Your Gays” theory has emerged in recent years to analyse the prevalence of this alarming trend. Rachel: On “Be Gay Do Crimes” though, and I guess while we’re on cops, makes me think of “More Lana than Lana,” which is the title of a poem in Porn Carnival, if we’re going to indulge more in “self-talking of our own consciousness,” and the trope of the bad-bad girl. If anything, I do think the Gurlesque questions romance, or has a sense of anger toward the problem of romance, toward the male object of desire. I think of Ariana Reines’s coeur de lion.Be gay, do crime.” These four short words have become the new rallying cry at Pride demonstrations, but a glance at the canon of queer film suggests you might not hear this sentiment at the cinema. Classic films like The Children’s Hour and Suddenly, Last Summer often take up Gothic elements to convey the paranoia and sense of entrapment felt by queer characters, but their plots are focused on individual psychology rather than the detection of a crime, as are more overt crime films, such Harold Prince’s gay murder mystery Something for Everyone from 1970. It took me a while to read since some of the comics were very in-depth, and I felt like I needed time to digest them while I was reading, so I'd read a few and then put it down for a day or two. It was definitely cool to see so many different perspectives on what it's like to be a queer person, and also to have them united in the general message that, no matter the struggles and hardships that might be faced along the way, it's actually still pretty great! Some of the comics were short and funny, and I think the mix of more serious pieces with the shorter, lighter ones also helped make the whole thing more readable.