By Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth LGBT social media networks were recently buzzing with news that a reboot of The L Word, the lesbian drama that ran for six series between 2004-09, is in the works at Showtime. A tweet from one of the original stars, Jennifer Beals, posted on […]

By Helena Bassil-Morozow, Glasgow Caledonian University The new BBC comic spy thriller Killing Eve, written by Fleabag author Phoebe Waller-Bridge and based on Luke Jenning’s novel Codename Villanelle, is a whirlwind spy tale of murder, obsession, betrayal and resilience. Its young female antagonist Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a Russian assassin […]

By Mary Harrod, University of Warwick Three of the most visible popular cultural texts of the past few months, the multiple-Oscar-tipped period film The Favourite, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC crime drama Killing Eve and Sally Rooney’s bestselling debut novel Conversations with Friends, are evidence of a shift whereby queer female identities […]

By Fiona Shaw, Northumbria University, Newcastle You’ll find the corpses of many novels left to rot in the hinterland of film adaptation – and plenty of novelists weeping over them. Films are sometimes very much altered from the novels they are based on. And mostly, in the novelists’ eyes, for […]

In this week’s guest post, Desiree Villena explores how the audience’s view of queer romance can be skewed when reading through a heteronormative lens: [Do you have a Guest Post you’d like to share? Check out my ‘For Authors‘ section.] I recently had the good fortune of reading Casey McQuiston’s […]