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iPhones. This movie has everything: trans women, Christmas carols, donuts, meth, and prisons and your father’s making!

What does it mean for a white cis guy to make a film about black trans women and Is it possible to tell others’ stories ethically through collaboration? What’s so appealing about DIY projects? What is the difference between observation and participation? And why is this called Tangerine anyway? Listen to Pia bully Clementine about their (objectively ridiculous) name.

Additional Reading:


Paris is Burning (duhhhhh)

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Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈
Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics
See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti
Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

We’re talking about our favorite anti-male pump up jam, SCUM Manifesto. This controversial and iconic essay was written by Valerie Solanas, founder and singular member of SCUM (the Society for Cutting Up Men) and failed assassin of pop art darling Andy Warhol. Werk!

We dig into this manifesto, break down the perfect gay storm that lead to Andy Warhol’s shooting, and celebrate the performance art of Solanas & Warhol’s relationship. Could this text be contemporary if we replaced the word “men” with “patriarchy?” How much should we consider the artist’s intention when reading a work? What would Valerie Solanas’ twitter look like?

Additional Reading:


On Liking Women by Andrea Long Chu
For Her by Fiona Apple
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol

Extra Credit:


Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈
Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics
See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti
Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

In 2020 while the world was literally falling apart, comic icon Simon Hanselmann stepped up as the hero we needed. Publishing daily to instagram, Hanselmann showed in real time how the cast of his cult classic series Megg and Mogg were coping in the quarantine. In our opinion, it’s the best piece of COVID media ever made, and possibly also the only good piece of COVID media ever made. It won an Eisner award for Chirst’s sake!

We talk about the catharsis of media by and for the people, the freedom provided by a cast of Problematic™ characters, and the power of shared niche interests. Pia also gushes extensively over Simon Hanselmann. (Simon if you are free this Thursday, Pia is free on Thursday when she is free.)

All hail the Anus King!

Additional Reading:


Dive into the the Megg and Mogg universe with Megahex or Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam by Simon Hanselmann
Fight Club (the book) by known queer weirdo Chuck Palahniuk (trust us, the book is more perverted than you’d think)
The beginning of Trailer Park Boys season 6 episode 5 “Halloween 1977”

Extra Credit:


Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈
Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics
See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti
Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

Surprise, bitch! I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me! It’s our first episode back in New York so obviously we drank a bottle of rosé and talked about Sex and the City. And as we recorded this episode, we couldn’t help but wonder if all lesbians are Mirandas by default or if there’s a more nuanced choice for each of us.

Extra Credit:


Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈
Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics
See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchett
Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

We’re discussing the iconic camp film, Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford. It’s our first ever episode in the same room! We discuss camp entertainment as therapy, the behinds the scenes gossip of both the making of Mommie Dearest and the life of Joan Crawford herself.

Why are the gays so good at irony? What defines camp? Be honest, how devastating are Joan Crawford’s eyebrows? Joan us for this love letter to a film that truly broke our brains.

We’re discussing the music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” by Lil Nas X, examining the referential nature of queer art, the influence of memes on pop music, and whether or not one can successfully masturbate using a peach.

Does Clementine look like Khloé Kardashian if she read queer theory? Who’s the Trish and who’s the Ethan? What is Pia’s favorite horse song? Join us for this dick-positive episode. #topscelebratingbottoms

Additional Reading:


Cellophane by FKA Twigs

Extra Credit:


Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈
Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics
See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti
Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song