Swamp Grits

They're baaaaack.In what can only be described as a back to back Halloween episode since their year long absence, Sye and Shpak embark on an impossible journey of unpacking all that makes Halloween gay because it just is. Listen in as they discuss all things queer, spooky, and Shpak's love of a particular set of fangs...Unfortunately, they're Twilight fangs.

Sye and Shpak are back with some spooky shit. Their long-awaited (by no one) , highly-anticipated (also by no one) Halloween special is here and it's all about that emotional ass Netflix series Bly Manor.  For those of you wondering why they waited so long to post this Halloween episode, the answer is these two feisty lezzies do not conform to gender stereotypes, top 40 music, nor the US Holiday calendar......they're also like mad lazy. major spoilers ahead.

Swamp Grits is back from our short hiatus and here to serve up some queer nutrition! This week we are discussing a fairly recent super sexy lesbian movie (if you're into intense underwear and spit play like we are). The 2017 movie Disobedience Directed by Sebastián Lelio stars two very different and very hot Rachels. Rachel Weiss and Rachel Mcadams play two queer women from an orthodox Jewish community in London and of course, Swamp Grits is all over it. And I just have to say before we go further into this, is that this is one of those movies that I wish I could go back in time and not see in theatres with a bunch of crunchy hetero college professors. 

Sye, Shpak, and their special guest Sweeps unpack the world of Camp. In a failed experiment that goes everywhere and nowhere, the three find themselves asking three very important questions: Does 1967 Spider-Man serve life?Are lanyards camp?Will we ever see Sye's lost arthouse film, The Stalker?

Happy Pride month, y'all! And in the long-lived tradition of us doing this very short-term show, we gonna get gay today. As a lover of cartoons and anime, finally, FINALLY, we get to do a goddamned animated queer show! We gonna talk about the legend, the reboot, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. And for those of you who've seen it, we ain't here for questioning my girl Catra. Feel free to contact us at our email contact@swampgrits.com, tweet us @swamp_grits, or connect with us on Instagram @swampgrits. We love hearing recommendations or just chatting about all things Swamp Grits!

Shpak and Sye suppress their overwhelming urge to gag in response to the 2016 French film Raw; the latter host does a fairly poor job. Steeped in allegory regarding female sexuality as a monstrous thing, our ladies find themselves having the most comical of moral debates because at the end of the day, "aren't we all cannibals?"No, Shpak, we are not.

This Swamp Grits episode is about queer friendship, and who better to do it with than friend of the pod and our first featured guest, Shooka Rafizadeh! She is a queer, she is a friend, and she is someone who has experienced the beauty and the torture of being with and without friends in the queer community. Some topics we explore: Why are queer friends amazing? Why are they sometimes hard to find? Why is queer friendship so intense? And finally, some good old-fashioned ragging on straight people.  Feel free to contact us at our email contact@swampgrits.com, tweet us @swamp_grits, or connect with us on Instagram @swampgrits. We love hearing recommendations or just chatting about all things Swamp Grits!

By popular demand, this week's topic is a movie that ticks many of our boxes, and while it is pretty universally loved by queer women, ultimately it is a pretty bad movie. Do not get me wrong - I say this with all the love and compassion one can have for this beautiful attempt. I am talking of course about the 2008 classic lesbian movie, I Can't Think Straight. This movie was directed by Shamim Sarif and stars Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth. This week, Sye and Shpak discuss this movie with a lot of love, especially considering how much time Shpak spent rewatching YouTube montages of the kissing scenes.After this episode, Swamp Grits will be on a short hiatus to celebrate Sye and Shpak's birthdays. We should be back in a few weeks! #ariespod Feel free to contact us at our email contact@swampgrits.com, tweet us @swamp_grits, or connect with us on Instagram @swampgrits. We love hearing recommendations or just chatting about all things Swamp Grits!

What does a desert, divorce, & deeply satisfying on screen intimacy all have in common? They’re all contained in the easily overlooked, yet vastly profound queer love story Desert Hearts. Listen as Shpak and Sye struggle to reconcile which one of them is Cay.They were both disappointed. Feel free to contact us at our email contact@swampgrits.com, tweet us @swamp_grits, or connect with us on Instagram @swampgrits. We love hearing recommendations or just chatting about all things Swamp Grits!

Why is every queer woman's movie a #&%@ing white cis lesbian period piece? Why is it that all we ever do is watch filthy, badly lit white women in heavy fabric trashbags heavy breathing? We have spent hours watching (mostly straight actresses) untie and unbutton for like 30 minutes just to get to a truly disgusting sex scene (when you think about how little they shower and bedpans, and honestly, you get it). We hate it! We are done with it! Swamp Grits 4 Eva!Feel free to contact us at our email contact@swampgrits.com, tweet us @swamp_grits, or connect with us on Instagram @swampgrits. We love hearing recommendations or just chatting about all things Swamp Grits!

In this episode, Sye and Shpak talk about the only moment of hope within the dystopic sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror: San Junipero. The superfan gush-fest digresses quickly into calming subjects such as questioning existence, the nothingness of death, and committing to spend every moment available at The Quagmire! So... the usual. Feel free to contact us at our email contact@swampgrits.com, tweet us @swamp_grits, or connect with us on Instagram @swampgrits. We love hearing recommendations or just chatting about all things Swamp Grits!

In this episode, Sye and Shpak are taking a break from the incredibly timely exploration of random lesbian shows and movies and discussing a theme that has come up for us often over the last year: how we navigate our friendships. This is especially relevant in a country with a majority of people with absolute garbage values as demonstrated by basically everything that has happened over the past 12 months and honestly, always. So in this episode, we ask ourselves and our listeners, is it maybe time to purge some of our friendships?Feel free to contact us at our email contact@swampgrits.com, tweet us @swamp_grits, or connect with us on Instagram @swampgrits. We love hearing recommendations or just chatting about all things Swamp Grits!

Nothing says Canadian television quite like vague shooting locations and limited production budgets. Sye and Shpak invite you on a journey into Lost Girl—a show literally too complicated and too simple to put into words. Is it an allegory to fix bi-erasure, an update on the true pansexuality of it all, or is it just a campy AF show with the Canadian equivalent of full-frontal nudity? It’s all of them. And if you’re of legal age, please imbibe any time you hear the words Canada or Canadian.

It's 2021, and Swamp Grits is back! To start off this new--and hopefully better--year living in this dumpster fire, we are revisiting one of our favorite queer camp classics: But I'm a Cheerleader. We'll be talking about roots, greasy hair, Robbie the Boy, and how ridiculous gender roles can be when shown through the pink and blue lens of movie director, Jamie Babbit. Consider this a pallet cleanser as we embark on our next year of random shit we like! #SwampGrits4Eva

Okay, it's December. There is only one film that can be discussed during this holi-queer month, and that film is Carol. Sye & Shpak dig deep into their May-December fantasy world to worship at the alter that is this 2015 masterpiece. Everyone they know is sick and tired of hearing them talk about it, and soon you will be too!There will be a short hiatus following this episode. But fear not -- Swamp Grits will be back and full of content in the year 2021!

Have you ever watched a trailer that you were 100% sure you have no interest in watching? Maybe it was a title or a cast member. The point is you have "swiped left" on a lot of media. Sometimes that dismissal means that you miss out on some great media. Sye & Shpak discuss Pretty Little Liars, Adventure Time, You, Succession, PEN15, and a few other shows that almost got away...

Strap on your stakes and crossbows, and leave any conceivable logic at the door. In this episode, Shpak and Sye fantasm over the quintessential supernatural teen show about five-foot blonde cheerleader battling forces of evil in sunny California where literally no one reports the weird shit happening around them. And of course, Buffy the Vampire Slayer prompts the most important life question: Team Angel or Team Spike?We hate them both. Team Faith, ya simps.

Sye and Shpak reminisce fondly on one of the first movies they saw during their queer awakenings: Bound. This goth-esque, 1996 treasure of a film by the acclaimed and queer Wachowski Sisters was undoubtedly a tight rope of sexual (and mob heist?) tension at the time. Now, as fully developed and uncloseted adults, Sye and Shpak can both say confidently, Bound holds up. Following their latest viewing, they are both learning to pick locks.

What begins as a wholesome exploration of the omnipresent director Quentin Tarantino, turns into an autopsy of his canon of movies, a search for a moment of screen time that isn't misogynistic or racist. Sye & Shpak revisit their fascination with Tarantino films and the ways they have been tortured by his 3 decades reign.

Some movies hit differently when you are closeted teen craving queer content rather than a 30-year-old adult with 5 white woman lesbian period pieces in the last 5 years. Our community is riddled with media that truly was of its time. Sye and Shpak discuss and destroy the aughts lesbian classic D.E.B.S., as always with love and affection.

Kink shame or not, Sye and Shpak can’t get enough of the female-forward, award-winning television series Killing Eve.” And just for shits and gigs, drink every time you hear the word violence and twice every time you hear the word titillate. Also, spoilers ahead and drink responsibly!

Swamp Grits is a future award-winning bi-weekly podcast with little to boast outside its name. What began as a drunken suggestion to turn useless observations into regimented half-hourish musings, Sye and Shpak would argue they've done exactly that. The two southern-esque, desperately radical lesbians created these woefully indulgent conversations with one thing in mind--Shpak: "Gay." Sye: "Questioning Ryan Murphy."

In this episode, Shpak and Sye traverse some questionable waters as they discuss their love for the super caucastic 1980 film Urban Cowboy. Spoiler Alert: This movie isn't for everyone.

Is your brand doing sh*t you know you shouldn't? Shpak and Sye explore the seductive nature of emotional pleasure and pain, AKA: Social S&M.

Sye and Shpak fell in love with Janet Jackson and Tupac in John Singleton's 1993 film Poetic Justice, because who doesn't love 40 ounces and nose rings?