Trash & Treasures
Studying weird garbage and hidden gems through a queer lens with Dorothy (she/her), Vrai (they/them) and sometimes Shawn (he/him). All trainwrecks need apply. Sometimes home of Drunk Book Club and Go Crows! (the Internet's Only Smallville Podcast)
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September 27, 2021 • 64 mins
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Hmm, a 2000s-era supernatural love triangle YA novel by a Utah-raised author with a lot of extremely unfortunate implications baked into the lore....this all sounds familiar, but we can't put our finger on it. Maybe it's just Pike specifically name-dropping Stephanie Meyer all over the place. If only this protagonist h...
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August 23, 2021 • 53 mins
Our summer celebration of Pride comes to a close (with many apologies for the delay) on a return to a familiar face: Jamie Babbit, best known for the landmark lesbian film BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER. Today we look at her 2007 follow-up, its deliberate attempts to introduce young viewers to the world of queer activism, and how well it achieves those goals. Also, the fact that you've probably never heard of it.
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July 7, 2021 • 50 mins
Listen, this is a queer podcast 365 days a year. Pride Month won't be stopped by a little thing like June being over. It's time for the 90s, and the film its director describes as "an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 on acid."
On the board for this episode: the difference between "queer representation" and "queer cinema," the queer reclaiming of mainstream genre work, and the pros and cons of making intensely of-the-moment art.
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June 21, 2021 • 42 mins
It's time at last to spotlight the patron saint of this podcast, the pope of filth himself: John Waters. While he's better known for Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble is the most potent and maybe the best of his 1970s work, a razor-sharp satire of heteronormative culture that can only flourish because it comes from such a tight team of collaborating artists and weirdos.
But it's also worth asking: what happens when an outsider artis...
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June 7, 2021 • 46 mins
Happy Pride Month, listeners! It's time for our annual four-episode journey through the history of queer film, and this year we'll be looking in particular at camp and outsider cinema.
While Bride might be quite famous, it's also a perfect starting place for our discussion: director James Whale's camp masterpiece, which those who knew him spent years after his tragic death denying as a queer work (possibly, we suspect, because th...
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May 31, 2021 • 53 mins
The sequel's still better.
We revisit the weird double image of Magic Mike, a "quiet lives of desperation" dance movie that was marketed almost solely based on its five or six minutes of male strip revues. Which both sells the subtler moments of the script short and disguises the unmasked contempt that the film overall has for women. It's...well, listen. There's a reason we're covering it here.
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April 21, 2021 • 50 mins
We're back, and not a moment too soon; there's a twister in Kansas! As season two kicks off Clark gets boner powers and Pete finally gets a role in the plot, while Dr. Hamilton continues to mosey through his episodes being both inscrutable and delightful. Oh, and Lionel is blind now. It's handled as tactfully as you'd imagine.
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, rape culture, misogyny, ableism, toxic masculinity, racis...
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April 2, 2021 • 68 mins
Special thanks to Chelsea for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.
Today we were set a daunting challenge: find something that hasn't yet been said about infamous cinematic trainwreck Showgirls. As the modern conversation swings from "reclaimed camp" to "was it in fact Good Actually all along" following the release of the documentary YOU DON'T NOMI, it felt like time to wade into thos...
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March 16, 2021 • 52 mins
For our 100th mainline episode, we decided to look in on one of Dorothy's childhood favorites, a cult hit that inspires a mix of terror and deeply held affection in all who remember it. And since Dorothy is also a megafan of Baum's books, it also provided a chance to talk about how the Oz series has been adapted over the years. Thanks for 100 episodes, listeners, and here's to 100 more.
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March 1, 2021 • 72 mins
Special thanks to Anile for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.
This month we stretch our muscles by getting into some ~literary fiction~! More precisely, the work of Dennis Cooper, a big name in queer outsider art who influenced previous DBC alumni Billy Martin (aka Poppy Z Brite) and Chuck Palahniuk and whose published alongside inevitable future subject Brett Easton Ellis.
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February 15, 2021 • 52 mins
Yes, the actual name of this anime is either "My Sexual Harassment" or "Boku no Sekuhara," but we wanted our title to briefly capture the extremely mangled naming convention from the height of this title's memetic fame. Because anime fandom is, has always been, and will always be an embarrassment. We're looking at you, "Boku no Hero" people.
For this year's horny Valentine special, we dove into the infamous yaoi OVA and how its cr...
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January 20, 2021 • 61 mins
We made it to the end of season one! And then they left us with a cliffhanger! Rude! There continue to be Vibes we did not request. But on the bright side, John Glover came back to chew some more scenery, and that's always a fun time.
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of police brutality, sexual assault, racism, incest
1:30 Bite-Sized Summary
4:00 Monsters of the Week
30:00 Wisdom from Pa Kent
34:45 Heart of the Show
40:30 And That's ...
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December 25, 2020 • 55 mins
Our holiday gift to you, our dearest listeners, is a second bite at the meme, the myth, the legend: that terrifying dead-eyed snowman puppet animated by the trapped soul of Michael Keaton. And also a microbudget slasher. We figured we'd watch one basically watchable movie and one deeply uncomfortable one, and that's sure what we got!
Also feat. cameos by all of the Zappa children, for some reason.
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December 8, 2020 • 67 mins
Special thanks to Ceslatoil for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.
An academic specializing in fan studies and a trans media critic walk into a Harry Potter fanfic. Chaos ensues.
In which we unpack the different structural needs of fanfics versus standalone works, the problem of only thinking through the implications of your bad guy twist halfway, and why all the most interesting ...
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November 23, 2020 • 55 mins
Special thanks to Roisin for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.
In which two Star Trek fans -- one casual, one Deep -- reckon with a Star Trek movie made for people who hate Star Trek and pay homage to all the good fanwork this movie spawned before digging into the messy postmortem of the project itself.
CONTENT WARNING for discussion of genocide, homophobia, and misogyny.
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November 4, 2020 • 59 mins
In which an extra-large basket of episodes brings us dead little brothers, sex pollen, and the show somehow pulling out another shockingly decent plot about toxic masculinity.
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of euthanasia, sexual assault, suicide, sexualization of minors, incest, grooming, child abuse, and misogyny.
2:00 Bite-Sized Summary
5:00 Monsters of the Week
29:00 Heart of the Show
37:30 And That’s Terrible
44:00 Wisdom From ...
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October 21, 2020 • 50 mins
For our final October outing into horny horror (and if this movie isn't horror, we don't know what is), we looked at beloved cult classic and infamous banned film The Devils, which has been unavailable in its complete, uncensored form more or less since its filming in 1971.
Buckets of criticism, including multiple books, have been written on the film, so we tried to tackle a subject we hadn't seen discussed much: how the women of ...
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October 6, 2020 • 48 mins
Back in 1943, a queer screenwriter penned a film about a woman struggling with her fear that she had unnatural urges waiting to reveal her as a monstrous beast. Forty years later, Paul "The Canyons" Schrader decided the best way to tackle reinterpreting that hidden gem would be to add incest and a lot of full frontal. It is, to say the least, A Lot.
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September 9, 2020 • 34 mins
This week's episode was chosen by listener poll, and y'all did us a solid by choosing the post-quarantine horror film HOST. Everything about it is so deceptively simple that we predict a lot of imitators, but who knows if they'll be able to capture this hour-long film's charms.
CONTENT WARNING for discussion of suicide, pandemic stuff, parental sexual abuse, ableism
"Dawn of the Deaf" short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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August 26, 2020 • 77 mins
We return to the works of Billy Martin AKA Poppy Z Brite for a Crow tie-in novel that wants to say a lot about systemic oppression in the queer community but kind of trips over its own feet and then breaks every bone in its body. Which is certainly interesting to watch, if nothing else.
This episode was commissioned by Anile! You can find out more about how to commission an episode by visiting patreon.com/trashandtreasures.
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