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On today’s podcast, editor in chief Jocelyn Macdonald speaks with Rachel van Nortwick, founder of Vinylly, a new dating app. If you’ve got swiping fatigue, never fear, this app is totally different. Instead of posting your sexy selfies and swiping for hours, this app uses your music streaming history, connected through Spotify, to match you …
On today’s episode of the AfterEllen Podcast, we’re talking with Ilene Chaiken, the celesbian visionary who brought us The L Word. But that’s far from her only contribution to TV! She’s been showrunner, writer, executive producer, and director on a number of projects. Her work is behind The Handmaid’s Tale, Empire, and now, a spin-off in the Law and …
On this episode of the podcast, editor in chief Jocelyn Macdonald and writer Madeleine Webster talk about self care. The original concept was coined by black womanist and lesbian Audre Lorde, but in its current usage, it’s far from its revolutionary origins. There’s never been a better time to critically engage with self care, as …
On this week’s podcast, ed-in-chief Jocelyn Macdonald speaks with professional matchmaker, Tammy Shaklee, of H4M matchmaking. Tammy is a straight ally who’s cornered the LGBT matchmaking market to end the endless swipe sesh and bring together loads of lesbian couples over the years. Let’s face it, there’s no Married at First Sight or Love Is …
On today’s podcast, we’re reviewing our 2020 top picks for movies, tv, music and more. We review all our favorites from the last year, the stuff that gave us good vibes only. If you’ve been following the podcast, you can probably guess we were big fans of Bly Manor, Ammonite, and Red Velvet, but there …
In case you missed our spoiler-filled Ammonite review, we go into EVEN GREATER spoilerific depths in our latest podcast. Personally, we’re really hoping most of you will watch this dang movie (canceling out the spoilers) because we REALLY need to talk about those love scenes. Like really, really, with all of you, not just each …
Last week was pretty epic for those following the cultural phenomena of “gender identity.” In the UK, a landmark high court ruling determined that children under 16 were unlikely to be able to give informed consent to receive puberty-blocking drugs. While the media looks away from this case and the implications it has for the …
On today’s episode of the podcast we review Clea Duvall’s new Christmas romcom, Happiest Season. Lesbiandom seems to be receiving the film with a love/hate relationship, and we definitely got caught up in our feelings.
On this week’s episode of the AfterEllen podcast, we are watching scary movies! We tackle our fave ghost stories, vampire flicks, and supernatural thrillers. Our favorites? Hill House, Bly Manor, Jennifer’s Body, the usj. OK, we’re basic, what of it? Did you check out our spooky lesbian streaming list? Cuz if so, you’re pretty much ready to walk into …
On this week’s podcast we spoke with Lisa Selin Davis, the author of Tomboy, a book that examines the rise and fall of gender nonconformity in girls. It used to be that tomboys, little girls who roughhoused, played outside, were bold and brave were common. But nowadays the pink and blue boxes children are shuffled into …