AJ and Tori’s Shiny New Year‪!‬ The Gay Adventures of AJ and Tori

Welcome to our Shiny New Year Special! Starting an LGBT+ media analysis and history podcast is the greatest gift we could have given ourselves in 2023. Thanks for sticking with us every step of the way! Join us as we discuss diverse topics of interest from throughout the year, like Barbie, the hotly debated sexuality of Obi Wan Kenobi, our dead cat, and more!

Here’s a list of all the media we talk about/recommend:

The U-Haul-mark Movie:
Friends and Family Christmas
About photographer who falls in love with a lawyer.

Christmas Carol Adaptations:
A Muppet Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Scrooge
Spirited

Books:
Barbie’s Queer Accessories
by Erica Rand
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
by Judith Mayne
We Are Okay
by Nina Lacour
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Music
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan
The Age Of Pleasure by Janelle Monae
Pretty Girls by Renee Rapp
The One that Got Away by Muna
Desire, I want to Turn Into You by Caroline Polacheck
Glenn Kye
Ari Yap
Goldwoman

**Things we forgot to mention!**

Jonathan Bennet Movies:
Christmas on Cherry Lane
The Christmas House 1
The Holiday Sitter

Books:
The Barbie Chronicles (Collection of Essays)

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