I've been fairly religiously watching the new web series We Have to Stop Now. It's about lesbians and therapy and is hilarious. It's on Jill Bennet's website, and I hope you'll check it out. The episodes are fairly short, and well worth watching.
Here's episode 1:
We Have To Stop Now: Pilot Episode from DynaKit Productions on Vimeo.
I've watched a few of Jill Bennet's other videos; she's got a vlog series called The Violet Underground. While I did really like We Have to Stop Now, I was a little saddened at the interview Bennet did where she and Dalila Ali Rajah discuss bisexuality. It was clear they were coming from a good place of trying to understand, but it was also hard to see them blithely trotting out a lot of the stereotypes.
That said, please check out and support We Have to Stop Now. I agree with Bennet that it's important to have media representations of all kinds of people and lives, and we can support those online.
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2 comments:
Have you watched "We're Getting Nowhere", Jill Bennett's previous vlog? (It's on afterellen.com) It's a lot better than The Violet Underground - WGN was a silly entertainment vlog, and Jill is much better at silly than at serious!
I agree, by the way - the bisexuality episode was very... clueless, if you will. I really wished they had done more research, and thought about it a bit more before shooting that. I do think that they had good intentions, but it came off as confused and stereotypical.
I hadn't watched it (the videos are a little slow to load on my school connection) but I certainly will now.
I'm not mad about the bisexuality episode or anything, just a little sad that people who do seem to mean well are still so persuaded by the stereotypes.
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