The Gifted Child Symposium21 Heinä 2024

Red, White & Royal Blue: Queer Joy, Queer Trash, and Geopolitics

Tired of living through major historical events? Do you feel like the times are never going to stop being unprecedented? Does every news alert fill you with existential dread and anxiety?

Introducing the wonderful optimism of Red, White & Royal Blue! This month, we invite you to dare to imagine a world in which the bi, mixed race, First Son of the United States and the gay spare to the British Throne have a clandestine affair and the world is Mostly Totally Fine With It. In this episode we discuss the serendipity of rom-com plots and what exactly it takes to make a queer rom-com as escapist and light-hearted as other Netflix and Amazon Prime original movies. Call it delusion or optimism - it's a good time either way.

Music by Max Elliott

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Carey, Leigh A. “Queer Rom-Coms Are Finally Getting Their Due”. The Zoe Report, Jun. 2023, https://www.thezoereport.com/culture/lgbtq-rom-coms-on-the-rise
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