Biting the Hand: Recent Episodes
Nax & Jules
Criticism around representation of marginalized people in media has been dismissed as “Biting the hand that feeds you”, but our podcast asks, what happens when we do? Join Julia and Nax as they react to media with queer subtext, queer cult classics and other aspects of the “queer canon.”
In this episode, we journey back to the 70s, 80s, and 90s to discover the fantasy glam-rock biopic Velvet Goldmine. We talk about the history and political climate of the 70s and 80s regarding glam, the enigma of Kurt Cobain, and try to pretend we know about Oscar Wild. But, there is something else you didn't expect under all that glitter; fascism.
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Playlist:
Velvet Goldmine - David Bowie
Rock and Roll Part II - Gary Glitter
Chance Meeting - Bryan Ferry
Super Paradise - Romy Haag
Needle In The Camel's Eye - Brian Eno
Mr. Soft - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Life on Mars - Mick Ronson
Criminal World - Metro
Total Eclipse -Klaus Nomi
My Unclean - Ewan Mcgregor
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana
Space Clown - Jobriath
Additional film sound clips from The Linguini Incident and Fitzcarraldo
Our episode on Lady Gaga's debut album The Fame was so long that we had to break it up into two parts. In our SECOND episode, we break down the tracklist of The Fame. We discuss our personal relationships to the album as well as; Gaga's artistic subversion of fame and pop culture, the complicated relationships of queerness in regards to celebrity, and what the heck was up with Gaga's purple teacup.
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We discuss Lady Gaga's debut album The Fame. In this first episode, we address the context of the cultural landscape surrounding The Fame. Then, we dig deep into pop culture and bring up the media uproar of paparazzi in regards to the fame culture of celebrities just before the 2008 financial crisis.
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We are so glad to be back! In this episode, Julia and Nax discuss Lil Nas X's MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) in relation to queer theology and why his provoking devil imagery upsets right-wing media.
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Mutual Aid mentioned:
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In this bonus episode, we discuss racism and the present rise of fascism in the United States.
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In this month's episode, we are talking about jazz legend and spiritual icon John Coltrane. Join us as we discuss Coltrane's life A Love Supreme, spiritual influences, and music theory of the Coltrane changes.
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In this episode, we look back on 2019 and discuss our favorite movies and television shows. Because we are both very gay, we promise that all of our picks are also as such.
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In this episode, we talk about our favorite queer cartoon Steven Universe! We give a little brief intro to the show and why we love it so much.
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In this episode we discuss one of the most important LGBT documentaries, Paris is Burning.
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Julia and Nax discuss The Nightmare Before Christmas and it's often untalked about inspiration.
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We are Julia and Nax and welcome to our podcast where we introduce ourselves and talk about why we like media criticism!
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