It's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you... without a dope pod to enjoy. Missy Misdemeanor references aside, we mean to keep showing up for you. But, how to show up as if nothing has changed when everything has changed? How to reconcile the healing self with the self in the burning room?
With the passing of our depressive episodes and the turning of the wheel into Aries season, we invite you to join us as we grapple with the disparity of creating art in such a destructive time. To inspire us and lead us into this terribly beautiful terrain--we look to none other than Aries Supreme Tracy Chapman, whose brief (but mighty) return to public consciousness is the sign we've all been waiting for.
Are there ga(y)mes? Certainly play is a part of it? Are there gripes? What's a dyke without one? Are you ready? Then listen up!
Deep in Virgo season, Rose and Gala reappear to reap the seeds that Venus Rx and Mercury Rx have sown. What's on the table this harvest season? A medley of astrology roots. We're talking sisters and we don't mean beans and corn. What do Capricorn and a Cancer have in common? What's Leo got that Aquarius hasn't got? How likely is it to find an Aries and a Libra chilling in the same room? What is the sign of soup?
Gather round as we stir the pot and add a dash of creative chaos. Did you think a Virgo season episodes would be tidy and tight? Mutables like Virgos contain multitudes, my dudes. Here, along theVirgo/ Pisces axis, we know that love of the process is a profound and sacred love. Do we talk about pets and illness? 6th house says YES. Do we play an absurd lesbionic survival game with hypothetical scenarios? Who would we be if we didn't?
There’s a good chance that if you were a dyke in the early aughts, then a Tegan and Sara song has the power to open up a deep well of nostalgia and possibly even regret in you. In this month’s episode, Rose and Gala harness that power for their own purposes, roping you into a Tegan and Sara retrospective chord by opening chord. Listen in your living room as we debate which hit songs belong to which signs. Let us get back in your head with an accompanying Spotify playlist :) …Celebrate the first true representation of soft butches wearing thermals under band shirts in High School (tv show based on Tegan & Sara’s teen years co-created by Clea DuVall). If those two topics don’t satiate you, enjoy a clever meal of dyketastic comparisons in the form of a game we’re calling “Sisters or ‘Sisters’.”
Join Rose & Gala on a Mercury-fueled ride down memory lane as they wax sapphic about LiveJournals past and all the trappings of being emotionally online in the early years of social media. Perhaps you, too, were a Woman In STEM (ie: learning code to add backgrounds and MUSIC to your online journal). Perhaps you never used Both Hands to share your inner world online under a silly pseudonym like FuriousRose or SaltWaterTears, perhaps you were simply there to watch and witness. Whether you were a goth deadjournaler), an emo livejournaler, or a voyeur whose life opened wide the moment pages like Birls (boyish girls) came on the scene, this episode is for you. Of course, your favorite dykes with big (bisexual?) energy can't let an episode go by without acknowledging the reason for the season. With the Sun's tenure in Gemini coming to a close, Rose & Gala are here to threaten you with a good time and some good games too. Play along as we take turns making a queer case for Gemini celebrities like Pam Grier, Paula Abdul, Isabella Rosellini and Robin Tunney (happy birthday!!!). In True Gemini fashion, it's not about the truth, it's about the conversation.
Rose and Gala get back to the drawing board, beginning a new season of BDE with a tried and true approach: one episode, one theme, and all sapphistry all the time. Join us for a deep dive into the astrological archetypes of the girls formally known as Yellowjackets. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Cast your votes in the comments! Play along while we bring our girls into some lower stakes chaotic lesbian survival scenarios. Lascivious lasagna? Incontinent pit-bull? Unsealed deck in the rain? Who you gonna call? If hypothetical games are your cup of foraged wine, then stay tuned for the bonus round—right after we talk Taissa full moon, subterranean Pluto return, Pisces new moon, and a conjunction or two. Did we miss the chance to mention Kristin Hersh? We each only have two hands.
Venus is STILL retrograde and the devil is in the details this Capricorn season. But with a moody full moon in Cancer blessing the month of January and an exhausting square between Mars and Neptune, not to mention a spaced out Mercury Retrograde in Aquarius, the devil is bound to have her say. Why not let the fallen angels have it? What's an indulgence or two or three between friends who haven't been to a homosexual house party in three years? If you aren't feeling sexual and ruinous at the end of the world perhaps you're better off making soup. Gazpacho if you're holding down that Southern Hemisphere. Turn up the flame and cut your shallots beautifully while you tune into our astro weather forecast. Simmer down while we cook up our Capricorn karaoke theories. Are you more of a Meatloaf-singing Cap or a country crooner? It's all coming back to us now as we salt and pepper to taste and discuss the patterns in sapphic media today compared to yesteryear.
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A choose your own (Sagittarian) adventure episode where each adventure is a quest to find good sapphic media. Welcome, one and all, to Rose and Gala's shameless TV corner where we embrace the winter solstice in totality but laying on the couch and having a good cathartic media binge. Take a load off those strong lesbian shoulders while we discuss 12 Dates of Christmas and the tragic affliction of "main character energy." Mix up some fair-trade cacao while we kvetch about what's missing in the world of holiday romcoms. Kick off those Blundstones as we wax on about Melanie Lynskey as queer canon and her place in our hearts and role in Yellowjackets, the only good tv for medium-aged dykes. Yes, they recount the SATC reboot, but at what cost? Do Aquarians or Sagittarians talk more shit? This episode is a case study.
Of course, no Sag season episode would be complete without a hot debate to polarize the masses so stick around for Gala's Case Against Carol, sure to turn you against her forever. What to a Sag rising is likability? What do Sagittarius' even need when they still have Teyana Taylor performing 2018's “3Way,” grinding on the likes of Rubi Rose and Yung Miami on her 2021 farewell tour? Give yourself the gift of watching this performance through the years this holiday season. A farewell tour only happens once, but a lap dance recorded on YouTube lasts forever.
Do we ever get past the fruitless search for representation and discuss what actually matters: the moon, the stars, the sacred texts of the cosmos? Yes, and it's hardly a gay old time.
What, to a homosexual, is holiday cheer? Omicron is here. Stay inside, Save a life.
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Welcome to the Taurus full moon panic room! What kind of goddess decided to cast Venus’ Rx shadow the day before the eclipse? Is it the same goddess in charge of these Uranus oppositions and Saturn squares? Speaking of Saturn, would you live stream 6 middle aged dykes building a deck? Surely it’s better than Tampa Baes. And while we’re on the subject of lesbians with mansions, let’s talk about hidden assets: who has them and what does Taurus/Scorpio have to say about it. Why be fragile when you can be a force of nature? Come ride these waves and howl along on this latest episode of BDE.