“According to Indian Country Today, in 2017, Destany “Sky” Pete, a member of the Shoshone and Paiute Tribes from the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Idaho and Nevada, discovered that her tribe’s current health issues were linked to a lack of traditional foods, including the forgotten recipe for toishabui, or chokecherry pudding. She enlisted the help of Dr. Ken Cornell of Boise State University, who specializes in cancer research. Dr. Cornell tested four types of chokecherry specimens on uterine sarcoma cancer cells. Remarkably, only one sample – the traditional chokecherry pudding – successfully inhibited cancer cell growth. Within just 24 hours, the cancer cells began to die. Sky noted that the success of the pudding was due to the inclusion of the crushed chokecherry pits, which were a critical component of the recipe.” **Edited to add that she graduated from the University of Idaho today!**
Why? It's the story of the all-consuming love between two friends turned lovers. The love is passionate, and one was so obsessed to find the other she even married to get her to show up (she left the husband). She finally finds her and brings her to live with her to make sure she'll be all hers from now on. Go watch, I tell you.
Chaser Game W
Why? Season 2 of this beautiful love story sees the two lovers reunite after last season's events. The boss that cane back to get revenge from the woman who left her but was actually still in love with her has turned into a love sick puppy the minute she found out the truth and you have to watch their sweet times.
Agatha All Along
Why? A Disney+ show that turns Marvel characters into actual, canon gay for each other? Yes, it is happening and you should be watching it.
The Loyal Pin
Why? If you like period pieces that focus on a lesbian romance you will love this, if you don't like period pieces you will love this. This gay Bridgerton uses the beautiful setting as decor while focusing 100% on its lesbian lovers who have all the tropes you love, jealousy, friends to lovers, secret affair etc. etc. What are you waiting for?
Unlock Your Love
Why? The couple from the miniseries Lucky My Love is back and better than ever in this lighthearted romcom about a girl who has been hurt one too many times by love and has become an ice queen and the girl who conquers her heart.
Coming up soon?
Arcane Season 2
Why? I can’t say much but here's what I'll say: our fave couple is canon.
Pluto
Why? The much anticipated passionate, unpredictable love of the novel comes to life with a couple that has just amazing chemistry.
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Why? A supernatural show with a lesbian couple is always fun to watch.
Are you behind?
Series recently finished that you didn't watch? Go now!
The Secret of Us is the lesbian telenovela you always wanted, all the tropes, supercouple!
Under the Bridge will scratch your mystery plus lesbians itch.
The Sex Lives of College Girls and the "Lesbian Who Sleeps with a Man" Trope Causing Community Burnout
Are you tired? I'm tired.
After the first couple of episodes of The Sex Lives of College Girls I found the show entertaining enough, even with its superficial handling of some important issues, like the pressure on girls/women to exchange sexual favours for career opportunities. "Take it for what it is", or something along those lines, was in my original review of the show (now deleted along with all other posts about the show). But there's something that I refuse to "take for what it is" anymore and that is the overdone, dismissive and at this point exhausting old trope of the lesbian who sleep with a man. This trope specifically targets lesbians and no other member of the community. Gay men don't deal with the trope often unless they're portrayed in a fake marriage and other members of the lgbt+ community don't exclude men as sexual partners.
It's a lesbophobic trope so overdone many TV Shows have experienced backlash for it (remember Faking It?), enough that most shows in the last few years have avoided the trope and labeled any character that has sex with both men and women bisexual. As they should. There's of course some that keep insisting it's the early 2000s and use it the trope like Younger, Dear White People and now The Sex Lives of College Girls.
As I said in my original review of the show, TSLOCG has a cool opportunity to tell the stories of a lesbian who is in the closet and deals with having relationships and/or sex with women while hiding that part of herself from friends and family so she won't be viewed differently. But of course they went with the overdone: lesbian but she sleeps with men because...*checks notes* she wants to be popular?
Why is it so much of a big deal? Everyone in the community already knows but let me refresh your memory. The lesbian identity is dismissed, over sexualized, considered a phase, perceived by many men as there to please them and therefore not "real". This trope directly feeds into the myth that lesbians actually want to or at least don't mind having sex with men. A myth that leads to endless online and real life harassment from men. The same men who think they can "watch", "join", ask to "try with me" because "it's just sex".
This is why Mindy Kaling needs to stick to doing her straight romantic comedies. It is better to do nothing than do harm.