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BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (Alexis Dent)

You Started It!

English - December 02, 2019 02:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MB - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Alexis Dent, writer and co-host of the very funny podcast "The Violet Wanderers" joins us to discuss Jamie Babbit's 1999 cult classic queer satire, BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER.

We get into mid-century modern kitsch, the narrow-mindedness of cishet reviewers, the evils of the MPAA (who gave BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER an NC-17 rating for reasons all but explicitly homophobic.) 

Alexis also discusses her adolescence, growing up bisexual and trans in the midwest (in the frank and witty fashion few but she can) and why this film was how this film was the first time she saw herself in media.

Follow Alexis on Twitter @FilthAlexis 
Follow her wonderful podcast "The Violet Wanderers" @violetwanderers (www.violetwanderers.com) 



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