gaylor zoom alert! I'm cohosting a hang to celebrate and talk all things showgirls! today 12-2 PM Pacific if you have the link, use that one or DM me to get one!

Part of my interest & joy in @wendingcircles.com is that it creates a designated time to spiral out in real time about the weirder sides of the New Romantics & other things that I'm not interested in having documented for perpetuity. Just a container for a hyperfixation with other people who get it

Wanna talk showgirl spies? We'll be live on Zoom at 6 PM TONIGHT if you're interested in learning more about how artists have been used by governments Participation is your choice: cameras and mics on or off is totally cool, just come as you are ♡ Can't make it tonight? We're here every Tuesday :)

If you're looking for a place to chat with other gaylors in real time on zoom we have a few hangouts coming up! every Tuesday 6-8 PM EDT Sunday 21 Sep 3-5 Sunday 5 Oct 3-5 The 21st is both the anniversary of MMwM as well the group that made The Ladder! And the 5th is for Showgirls ♡ c u soon :)

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“To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.” — Josephine Baker

“To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.” — Josephine Baker How are showgirls used as superspies? Come find out through the lens of Josephine Baker, the secret bi legend of WWII on Zoom Sundays 3-5 EDT Mondays + Tuesdays 6-8 PM drop a comment or dm and we’ll connect you with the link :)

“To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.” — Josephine Baker How are showgirls used as superspies? Come find out through the lens of Josephine Baker, the secret bi legend of WWII on Zoom Sundays 3-5 EDT Mondays + Tuesdays 6-8 PM drop a comment or dm and we’ll connect you with the link :)

if Post is her, why not Dylan too

"Hollywood! Man's Best Friend! A feature film! about a young girl who's a whore" david lynch, probably

omg i knew there was something about lobsters i was forgetting! the dali connnection! @chacofemme.lesbian.cat

to any and all trans friends in my sphere, you are heard, you are welcome, you are safe here 🩷

what if I said Mulholland Drive is the source text for All Too Well?

“Thank you to my therapist and gay people.”🌈🌈🌈

"When you see the girl in the picture that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, 'this is the girl'" - The Cowboy Come through for a peek into Hollywood's underbelly!

i've got some tricks up my sleeve, takes one to know one... you're a cowboy like me

If the key is LOST IN Vancouver, is this a puzzle? What words can be found within V A N C O U V E R? I can’t work out anything that uses all 9 letters. Could the key be just simply be in the VAN? The getaway van from I Can See You? Could the key be UNCOVER, because we might uncover a lost key?

I’m hosting a watch party of Mulholland Drive with @wendingcircles.com this Sunday because I’m convinced it’s an integral part of the story we’re experiencing together, come chat with us! send me a dm or register at wendingcircles.com

The celluloid closet is a great doc about old Hollywood cinema & queer history! ☺️

@chacofemme.lesbian.cat has put together a great list! "the word is out" and "paris is a woman" are great docs abt queer history to start!

What’s on your pre-Showgirl watchlist? @chacofemme.lesbian.cat curated a selection of 12 films for TS12 to prime our listening experience Moulin Rouge Obsessed w Light Cléo de 5 à 7 Paris is Burning ZouZou Showgirl in Hollywood Cleopatra Cadillac Records Burlesque Showgirls Mulholland Drive Muppets

did we know about Dianna’s cameo in a showgirl film? bc we just watched Burlesque and I was gagged to see her pop up in the third act

Showgirls Season has BEGUN! Come listen to the reflections for the first film of the month Burlesque (2010) and share what you've been thinking about during such a busy time dm for the Zoom link <3

if you wanna be influenced into watching one of the greatest camp classics of our time, we're talking about Christina and Cher in Burlesque (2010) at 6 PM EDT on Zoom w/ @wendingcircles.com if you wanna hold space for feeling any which way about gaylor post announcement, we're also doing that ♡

You are not less than anyone for not posting long theory threads. And if any of you have thoughts that you are scared to share, please just share them!!! We value so many different perspectives & that's the best thing about here - we all have different strengths. Different life experiences

Every single one of you is so valid to be here. There's no criteria to fill to be able to be here other than being kind & open minded. You don't have to contribute big brain thoughts all of the time or ever. The biggest thing about this whole project is the community. We all contribute something.

not lost on me btw 🛟

us watching burlesque

It was so fun hanging out on Zoom with some of y’all yesterday! If you like connecting in real time, especially if you like analyzing this art with an academic lens, @wendingcircles.com has weekly events This month, I’m hosting some hangouts and also film club and I would to spend it with you!!

“It’s just the life of you lead but it’s yours” Come chat with us for Showgirls Season! we meet on Zoom: Sundays 3-5 EDT Monday + Tuesdays 6-8 EDT register at WendingCircles.com

Leave your inhibitions at the door, the show is about to begin! It's Showgirls Season ​and we're watching a slew of films to prime our listening experience for The Life of a Showgirl because we believe in the regenerative powers of community and the ability film has to sharpen our attention to art

🌬️⌛️🍷 August slipped away into a moment in time it's The Life of a Showgirl, but it's mine 🧨❤️‍🔥🐦‍🔥

"Ring out the bells again Like we did when spring began Wake me up when September ends" —Taylor Swift about TTPD and Showgirls, probably

so cool you're exploring queer history @bettys-scrt-garden.swifties.social & def agree w/ what everyone's recommended! here's the list I made for @wendingcircles.com, it's def not complete but just a starting place with some of my favs. if you wanna talk more queer history, pls come to a Zoom event!

if you haven’t seen the Daemon video I made for @wendingcircles.com that connects Taylor directly to Liz’s talk, I think you’ll love it! one of my favorite parts of this all is that my own daemon led me here bc I was working on this before I even knew that she referenced the talk at her Tiny Desk!

Talk about timing in times like these! Our last meeting about The Muppets before entering our Showgirl Era is this evening and if you’re looking for a place to process what allll this means, we hope you’ll come chat! ♡ 6-8 PM Eastern // 3-5 PM Pacific send us a DM if you need to link (:

Everything is incredible

We’re back! And it’s Muppets time! We’re watching Muppets in Space (1999) this week and chatting about it tomorrow Tuesday 12 August from 6-8 PM Eastern on Zoom DM or comment if you want the link to join the chat! archive.org/details/02-m...

Wearing daisies in your hair, feeling like a doll, igniting the bed into flames, using food fights as euphemisms, making collage art, plunging into water, laying the table with the fancy shit...are we in Daisies (1966) or a Taylor video? screening today, chat tomorrow @ 3 PM Pacific / 6 PM Eastern

“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” i asked my grandmother willow we are not the same

Why does The Man play tennis? Which sapphic artist made a Lover-esque dollhouse? What are the queer origins of dazzle camouflage? It goes back to 3 gay sisters: The Stettheimers, cousins of Natalie Clifford Barney, salon host & lover of Oscar Wilde's niece Dorothy, ambulance driver in The Great War

"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible" —Toni Cade Bambara HAPPY PRIDE! May the art we study this month galvanize us to remember that our liberation is rooted in perpetual revolution that begins w/ us & our communities new wave film chats: M/T sapphic poet classes: W/Su

New Romantics will always be that bitch to me, it’s such a gay anthem

WHAT WAS THAT? If you wanna talk AMAs and explore the why and wtf behind one of the weirdest award shows in recent history, join us on Zoom in the green room tonight at 3 PM Pacific / 6 PM Eastern DM us for the link if you need it!

Filmmaker and transcendental meditator David Lynch is known for his dreamy surrealism that blends the mundane with dark truths Our May events are dedicated to his artistic vision in honor of Cowboy Carter's references to his show Twin Peaks and the everpresence of Bejeweled's Laura Dern in his work

One year later and we're still falling back into the hedge maze! If Tortured Poets sparked your yearning for more poetry, Auroras of Gay Prose is for you: we're studying three sapphic poets woven into Swift’s artistry: Florine Stettheimer, Amy Lowell, and Elsa Gidlow

Ooh, if you liked The Truman Show, you might enjoy an earlier film from the same director Peter Weir! His 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock is a time portal mystery with lesbian subtext. We’re chatting about it in December if you wanna dive deeper with other folks! :) He also made Dead Poets Society!

I just watched the Truman show for the 1st time thanks to performanltors recommend and wow 🤯 mind blown. This movie and what is going on is wild and makes me love this community even more because these are the questions I have and wanted answered! This is the comparison I would make. So thank you

remember the rumors before the YNTCD mv of a Katy x Taylor kiss but ultimately the ending was merely a kinda weird food fight? Daisies (1966) is a subversive art comedy censored to “remove scenes which suggested lesbian subtext”—including when the women caressed each other…replaced w/ food fight 🍰