The Lavender Menace

It's Taylor Swift's birthday, and as leaders in the gaylor swiftie community, it is our public duty to bring to you a SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE!!! who cheered who clapped who screamed? Thanks so much to Tayo (@starshineclay on twitter) for bullying us into recording this last minute. We ranked every Taylor Swift album, gave our percentage of songs we love versus the rest of the songs on each album, an...

Some scintillating takes for listeners on season 3's episode 3 of The Lavender Menace! Including but not limited to: are "fake bisexuals" real/bad/an issue? (Short answer is no. The issue is always heterosexism.) Is Taylor Swift a good person? Are Letterboxd reviewers the worst? Renaissance and Sunny fervently defend Taylor Swift's album 'Reputation' in response to our 17 year old gaylor listener'...

Happy Red (Taylor's Version) release everyone! We are so excited to share our thoughts on the All Too Well (1o minute version) short film and our ranking of the album in episode 2 season 3 of The Lavender Menace podcast. But before Sunny and Renaissance get into all that, we discuss three (3!) of y'all's hot takes that answer the following questions: is compulsory heterosexuality a lesbian exclusi...

Welcome to season 3 of The Lavender Menace! Today we are forgoing our typical three part structure to complain about recent allegations, internet happenings, online battles... Sunny is in their reputation era again, thanks to overly online bisexuals accusing Sunny of being overly online while flooding them with violent online harassment. As Sunny's number one defender (and number one hater,) Renai...

We have arrived at the end of season 2, and it's time for us to talk about the media that made us the crazy bitches/mean lesbians/critical media consumers we are. But first, we respond to your lovely emails (thank you to everyone reaching out to us! Please continue to do this! Email us with your hot takes and at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com ) and give a listener our thoughts on what her art...

Hey everyone! Sorry for our unintended and unannounced one month break, but the podcast is back on!!! Here is episode 9 of season 2 that we recorded back in August when Renaissance and Sunny were both in St. Louis and saw the Hannah Wilke exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (more info here: https://pulitzerarts.org/art/hannah-wilke/ ) together, amidst doing many other things frolicking arou...

Welcome to episode 8 of season 2 of The Lavender Menace, where your cohosts Sunny and Renaissance are finally in the same city, house, room! Our sunnaissance in St. Louis era has been documented extensively on @thelavenderpod on Twitter, our personal Twitters (@asunnybooknook & @rxnaissance), and Renaissance's Instagram @renaissancemarie, if you want to go check that out... anyways today we discus...

Hello swifties/gaylors/our fellow mentally ill sapphics obsessed with a 5'10 blonde Sagittarius, Today we are blind reacting (kinda) to a listener submitted gaylor blind item blog post (link here: https://girlsandgaylors.tumblr.com/post/187281985680/gaylor-blind-items-2014-now ) from @ariesgodmother on instagram for our hot take portion of the podcast, then discussing the novella Many A Little Mak...

On this week's installment of Sunny and Renaissance's regularly scheduled three part podcast of a submitted hot take, joint media consumption, and personalized recommendations for each other, your favorite lesbian communists exhibit their bimboism in regards to professional sports but ultimately comes to the conclusion that like capitalism, they must be abolished! Thank you to @scissorclown on Twi...

Welcome to episode 5 of season 2 of The Lavender Menace podcast, where we, smart lesbian communists of color, discuss hot takes about communism lesbianism and everything fun sexy and cool, consume and discuss queer media, and recommend books movies and TV shows to each other. Today we are joined by the lovely Nour, whom you might recognize from lesbian film milf stan twitter @abitallie! Our lovely...

Welcome to episode 4 of The Lavender Menace Podcast season 2, where we bring ourselves back to our podcast roots- generally being frustrated at leftist internet discourse started by people who don't read and have no true understanding of what Marxism even is, and then ranting about Taylor Swift's genius for an hour. The Tik Tok Sunny complains about for the hot take is inaccessible because the cre...

Spoiler warnings for this episode: Black Widow (2021) & Zola (2021) Your favorite lesbian comedy entertainment criticism Aries/Cancer duo back with some scathing opinions on the MCU aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe as outsiders who occasionally partake, our thoughts on the latest hottest A24 movie everyone is talking about, and ramblings about the logical and political fallacies of superhero stor...

Discussing a wonderful listener's emailed hot take about I Care A Lot (2021), in which Renaissance defends their love for morally reprehensible women in fictional media and Sunny recommend Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Ellie Cosimano as an alternative piece of media to I Care A Lot (2021) that is intentionally camp and funny thriller about a morally gray woman that is actually written by a woman...

Welcome to season 2 of The Lavender Menace! We kicked off the second season of the podcast on Instagram live ( @renaissancemarie @sunnywithacamera )! Starting off with hot takes as usual, a listener named Robin submitted a wonderful email about their straight sister going to gay bars but also being homophobic...? And we talk about how irritating it is to have people encroach on spaces not for them...

This episode we discuss TWO (2) listener hot takes that appeared in our inbox! One regarding women’s anger, and another regarding the recent uproar about Billie Eilish (queer baiting?!) Then we go on to discuss recent happenings in the Swiftie world and reflect on season one of the podcast, doubling down on our Gaylorism. Finally, we go through all the media we’ve recommended to each other over th...

This episode (shorter than 45 minutes?! GASP!) Renaissance and Sunny discuss how lesbophobic you bitches (internet queers) are and our journeys to lesbianism. Yay! Then we gush about how much we love Lorde's single Solar Power despite the unnecessary heterosexuality of it. As usual, our three part show ends with us recommending media to each other, and instead of the usual Sunny's book recommendat...

Every June the internet repeats annoying discourse and we hate it! Renaissance loves Professor Marsten And The Wonder Woman (2017) and Sunny hates love. Most of the time. Media mentioned this episode, vaguely in order of appearance: Professor Marsten and The Wonder Woman (2017), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), The Handmaiden (2016), Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Be...

We love to complain about annoying white gays, the homophobia and transphobia inherent to colonialism, the many evils of western Christianity, among other things! This episode we discuss a wonderful and thoughtful and nuanced hot take submitted to our email ( thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com ) from listener Abhay from India, and that leads us into our discussion of our failed attempt at a shared...

Sunny and Renaissance have differing opinions but similar song ranking lists of Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album SOUR. Spoiler alert: Renaissance is a hater and self proclaimed bimbo!!! We read Fortune Favors The Dead by Stephen Spotswood and loved the quirky NYC 40’s vibes and queer little twists and turns. We also watched sapphic film cult classic Jennifer’s Body, which once again led us to discussi...

A very special episode for you all featuring our first ever guest on the pod! Hope you enjoy our conversations in relation to running themes of queerness, womanhood, self development, and private and public perception. Also, Reputation is about Karlie Kloss. Follow us on our new Twitter account @thelavenderpod! Email us at thelavendermenacepodcast@gmail.com

another late episode due to technical difficulties (Anchor....) but this week we discuss sapphic discourse and the objectification of wlw relationships by bisexual women who date men. we praise the brilliance of Kim, the host of the For Harriet youtube channel which somehow led us to talking about how public school are literal prisons; listen to figure out how we make that leap. finally we give ou...

Extra content from episode 3 that we cut out to limit the ever-lengthening minutes of each podcast episode we record. Renaissance is a television defender, Sunny believes in book supremacy, and we love to argue!

On April 30th 2021, Taylor Swift did not release her 10th studio album. However, she DID repost girl in red’s new album, titled ‘if i could make it go quiet’! We discuss this, as well as the sapphic Icelandic crime show Stella Blómkivist that we watched together, which Renaissance nervously anticipates Sunny’s reaction to. Then Sunny pitches two mystery/crime novels to Renaissance, and Renaissance...

In which we discuss, argue, and banter over the shitty hot take that misandry is bad (it's not!), a very bad DC movie (with interjectory commentary about another DC movie that fucking rocks), and pitching media to each other (unsuccessfully, on Renaissance's part.)

Welcome to The Lavender Menace podcast! Our first episode includes discussions of Gaylor theorizing, Shiva Baby, and Fleabag, as well as some attempted pitches of YA contemporary sapphic books. Featuring the chaotic ramblings of an Aries/Cancer lesbian communist swiftie duo- who happen to have superior taste in media and sharp/sensational/niche-to-the-point-of-alientating-others pop culture analys...