Queer Projection
Alethia St. Joan and Daniel Carroll
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About This Podcast
This is a movie podcast about finding queer themes damn near everywhere. Hosts Alethia St. Joan and Danny Carroll share a 30+ year friendship that has been bound together by a shared love for movies. A trans woman and a gay man respectively, Alethia and Danny explore what these movies meant to them while they were young and closeted, and what revisiting these movies means for the actualized, arguably maladjusted adults they’ve become. It’s a heady, often crass and sometimes crude blend - part nostalgia trip, part queer theory, part film criticism. Check it out!
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S2E10 Magnolia (Second Tape)
Send a textSeason 2 finale, sweet mama baby. Rub the sleep from your eyes, brush them teeths while you think about the First Tape, and then pop the Second Tape into the VCR and let it all rain down.…
S2E9 Magnolia (First Tape)
Send a textIt's time to tackle one of the most important movies in our decades long friendship. How is this our favorite movie if it isn't even our favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie? What was it…
S2E8 Being John Malkovich
Send a textWe ping pong back and forth between this movie being really understanding of the trans experience to thinking it's pretty damn transphobic. I mainly had no memory of this movie being so…
S2E7 Batman Returns
Send a textPut your catsuit on, cutie. And let's take a psychosexual gothic ride through the most subversive Batman installment to date. Who truly captures the freak flag in this movie? The deformed,…
S2 A Holiday Message
Send a textJust a lil' Thanksgiving update from Alethia St. Joan. Like what you hear? Get every episode pre-release by supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/QueerProjection
S2E6 Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Send a textOur hearts explode for Uma in this episode. Come wriggle your way outta that lonely grave and enjoy the end of this bloody ride. Have fun!Like what you hear? Get every episode pre-release…
S2E5 Titanic
Send a textUse the restroom before this one. We dive deep down to where many a podcast has gone before to try and find some unanswered questions about the biggest blockbuster of our youth. Why do…
S2 Let's All Go to the Lobby
Send a textA brief informational snack.Like what you hear? Get every episode pre-release by supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/QueerProjection
S2E4 Scream
Send a textSOMEONE’S TAKEN THEIR LOVE OF QUEER THEMES ONE STEP TOO FAR! Is this camp, is this parody, is this satire? We juggle these ideas as Danny grapples with his patent dislike of slasher films.…
S2 BONUS: One Battle After Another
Send a textHolding off on our Halloween episode a couple days for a minor medical recovery - in the meantime, we bring you our first formula breaking BONUS EPISODE. Paul Thomas Anderson constructed…
S2E3 Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Send a textHere comes the bride! Lots of stuff in this one. Is revenge queer? How often does Quentin Tarantino win shouting matches with journalists? And why does a bloody, violent tour de force of…
S2E2 Clueless
Send a textWhat is growth, what is change? Is it Di accidentally getting on the freeway? Tye using ‘sporadically’ in a sentence? Is it Cher finding love in the unlikeliest of places in this fairy…
S2E1 Mulholland Drive
Send a textHere we go, it's Season 2! Kicking things off with the nightmares and dreamscapes of David Lynch's Hollywood, including the wig that made Naomi Watts. Do you feel like maybe you're at the…
S1E8 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Send a textWhat is the nature of consciousness? Will we ever have a child actor the likes of Haley Joel Osment again? Does "protect the dolls" extend to little robot boys? Take our hand and come with…
S1E7 Terms of Endearment
Send a textGet your tissues, gurl. This is for the kids who love to cry. And laugh, and cry, and laugh, and then cry again. I know we love it. This movie asks, among other questions, what does it…
S1E6 Schizopolis
Send a textI was too embarrassed to tell Steven Soderbergh how much I loved him while I was working for him, so instead we made this podcast about one of his most interesting and least recognized…
S1E5 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Send a textIs this Richard Dreyfuss at his most Bushwick homosexual? Is leaving your family to climb aboard an alien spaceship a form of queer liberation? Do multi-jointed spider-humanoid aliens…
S1E4 Punch-Drunk Love
Send a textIs it only natural to be envious of Paul Thomas Anderson's career? Is Emily Watson an alien? Could a movie like this survive modern neurodivergence discourse without becoming a movie about…
S1E3 Gummo
Send a textThis one is for the film buffs. This one is NOT for people who really love cats. We discuss weird teenage bodies, dire socioeconomic situations, and Chloe Sevigny kissing Bunny Boy. Is…
S1E2 The Truman Show
Send a textDo you have main character syndrome? As maladjusted queers, we certainly do. Know who REALLY had main character syndrome? Truman Burbank. Named for the giant soundstage that consumed the…
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Queer Projection has published 22 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Arts, Society & Culture.
Queer Projection is currently declining with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 1h.
