Wizards Vs. Lesbians

Isaac and Alexis
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A queer sf review podcast about the emerging wizards vs. lesbians microgenre.

  1. FEB 1

    JANE, UNLIMITED

    Layer upon layer of nested mysteries are waiting to be unpeeled at tu reviens, a bafflingly enormous mansion full of/made of more or less stolen art on an island off the New York coast. This book is a really impressive technical achievement and also a lot of fun.

    1h 6m

  2. JAN 18

    SHORT FICTION ROUNDUP #8

    A particularly good crop of stories. The theme linking these is betrayal - of a lover, of one's family, of one's culture - and the part that desire, queer or not, plays in it. Read them here: Another Girl Under the Iron Bell Abstraction Is When I Design Giant Death Creatures And Attraction Is When I Do It For You The Name Ziya

    1h 9m

  3. JAN 11 · BONUS

    BONUS: ANGELMAKER

    Jake Casella Brookins of the Ancillary Review of Books and A Meal of Thorns joins us to discuss a novel by Nick Harkaway. We last encountered Harkaway carrying on his father's spy novel franchise, and this isn't that - it's more Neverwhere as directed by Guy Ritchie - but there's still a lot in there about legacies and dads.

    1h 3m

  4. JAN 4

    VOLATILE MEMORY

    A cyberpunk novel about animal masks.  This is a potently fertile symbol combo, a blend of metaphor-rich soils, so the only question is what conceptual seeds are being planted here.  Look forward to a bumper crop of gender come harvest time, with a scattering of disability discourse (and the odd cracked egg.)

    1h 1m

  5. 12/21/2025

    TO THE RESURRECTION STATION

    What have we here? A weird little gay novel from the late 70s, too full of energy to take itself seriously but too emotionally resonant to be dismissed, and it's an early work by one of our favorite authors? Absolute catnip.

    1h 4m

  6. 12/07/2025

    ONIISAMA E

    For our 125th episode we discuss a foundational text in yuri manga in which an exclusive private girl's school is as byzantine and treacherous as the court of Versailles. Would you like to fall in love with the beautiful tortured poet or the noble revolutionary hero with a hidden hurt? They both play basketball.  We're joined in our discussion by yuri experts Katherine and Amy.

    1h 9m

  7. 11/30/2025 · BONUS

    BONUS: BITING THE SUN

    Rachel Swirsky joins us to discuss a book about a post-scarcity psychedelic utopia in which you remain a young hippie for centuries until you finally become complacent enough to be allowed the privilege of being Old. It's a book about a very specific place and time, but it's beautiful and weird enough that its poetry compels even when its satire doesn't.

    1h 12m

  8. 11/23/2025

    DIRECT DESCENDENT

    We have here a bit of cozy horror set in a small town in Ontario - the reader can choose to focus on the cozy or on the horror, as they like, making it a versatile bit of kit. Unfortunately, the central romance is a bit of a clunker, and it's hard to read around that.

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About

A queer sf review podcast about the emerging wizards vs. lesbians microgenre.

Information

  • Creator
    Isaac and Alexis
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    166
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Wizards Vs. Lesbians

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