A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

Paquita is a somewhat eccentric woman who, while walking her dog, gets a strange substance on her head. Angry, she goes to the hair salon where she meets with her friends every Tuesday. While they try to fix her hair, she turns into a zombie, wreaking havoc on the salon.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
Hustlers was meant to be a film about female empowerment. And it was, to a certain extent. I expected and wanted this to be a kickass and complex film of sexy women who use their confidence, skills, and wits towards a brilliant plan to get revenge on the Wall Street guys who wronged them.
I hope that more people will see Joyland, understand the situation, and eventually change themselves and society so we can have a more accommodating world where everyday tragedies like the one depicted in the film do not occur.
I was able to sit down and talk with singer/songwriter Carson Lueders about his career in the music industry. We talked influences from country music to Pop, and his working relationship with Quavo from the The Migos.
This live-action Barbie movie brings strong feminism and topics about blondes.
Slip on your favorite dungarees and spend the day on the east coast of New Zealand before the 90s.