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<p>Movies with either a feminist message, feminist elements, or relative feminism, which is to say, given their context (genre, era, etc.), they show a more progressive attitude toward women than is expected of them. Baby steps, as it were, on the road toward feminism. </p><p>They are ranked not exactly by quality but more by how feminist they are--the latter ones are more in the relative feminism category. The top ones are unequivocal.</p><p>Suggestions welcome, but I will only add films I've seen, in large part because of a sentiment best described by "I'll be the judge of that." I would like to try to favor intersectionality, but I am still working on how to best do that.</p>
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<p>Must have a woman as its:<br />☑️ lead, co-lead, or subject;<br />☑️ director or co-director; <i><b>and</b></i><br />☑️ writer or co-writer (screenplay, story, or source material).</p><p>If you happen to find the comments open and notice there’s anything missing <i><b>that fits the criteria above</b></i>—particularly non-American films—feel free to let me know. I get a lot of notifications on this list so I seldom reply, but if your suggestion belongs here I’ll add it.</p><p>This list is curated to invite reflection upon women’s perceptions and depictions of themselves and/or other women as they are presented through the medium of cinema, as films made by <i>and</i> about women are among the minority worldwide. For those interested, stats and research into this subject are available on the website of San Diego State University’s <a href="https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research/" rel="nofollow">Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film</a>.</p><p><b>As of January 2026, this list contains films in 86 languages from 147 countries and over 3,750 directors across a timespan of 121 years.</b> See the <a href="https://letterboxd.com/meagan/list/stuff-by-women-about-women/stats/" rel="nofollow">Stats</a> page for more.</p><p>Special congratulations to @M█████_F██████ (now blocked and thus his comments are hidden) for accidentally summing up more succinctly than I ever could why this list exists, while simultaneously missing the point:</p><blockquote><p>I’m thinking of making a list of films made by men. That would take me an infinite number of years 😂😂😂😂 .</p></blockquote><p>Since this list is much less time-consuming to make—enjoy!</p><p>- - - - - - - - - - -</p><p><b><i>Update 11/16/24:</i></b> As a courtesy to the Christmasheads, all Christmas movies are now cross-listed on <a href="https://boxd.it/ArHaC" rel="nofollow"><b>Christmas stuff by women, about women</b></a>.</p><p><b><i>Update 2/4/24:</i></b> (1) All stand-up specials, stage performances, concerts, music videos, “behind-the-scenes” and “making-of” films, standalone TV show episodes, and all other similar listings have been migrated over to a new list: <a href="https://boxd.it/stSBG" rel="nofollow"><b><i>More</i> stuff by women, about women</b></a>. Documentaries and miniseries remain on the main list along with regular ol’ movies. (2) This list is now sorted by Average Rating (High to Low). Should you ever wish to browse the list the way it was before, simply <a href="https://letterboxd.com/meagan/list/stuff-by-women-about-women/by/popular/" rel="nofollow">sort by Film Popularity</a>.</p>
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All credits go to IMDb user: RDLongoria
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<p>From the good to the bad, every depiction of transgender characters in media or media created by (out) transgender people (director or writer) that I have seen.</p><p>Drag queens/kings not included, unless they're also trans.</p><p>Recommendations and reminders of films I've obviously failed to include welcome. A lot of bad depictions don't come to mind easily, for instance. I will only add things I've seen, as this is a ranked list.</p><p>Need to see or rewatch:<br /><i>Georgie Girl<br />Paulista<br />Field Full of Secrets<br />Screaming Queens<br />Midori<br />The Adventures Of Iron Pussy<br />The Christine Jorgensen Story<br />Breakfast on Pluto<br />Escape from LA<br />Dallas Buyers Club<br />Miracle Mile<br />Wild Side<br />Tales of the City<br />Ghost in the Shell<br />Too Scared to Scream<br />Homicidal<br />40 Year Old Virgin<br />A Soap<br />Tomboy<br />A Wrinkle in Time<br />Tirerisa<br />The Cobbler<br />Dr. Jeckyll & Sister Hyde<br />Austin Unbound<br />Flawless</i><br />everything I haven't seen from Val's comment<br /><i>The World According to Garp<br />The Iron Ladies<br />Sick Nurses<br />Shutter</i></p><p>Other lists:<br />| <a href="http://letterboxd.com/laurelnaiad/list/transgender-films/" rel="nofollow">1</a> | <a href="http://letterboxd.com/analucia/list/transgender-movies/" rel="nofollow">2</a> | <a href="http://letterboxd.com/ruth/list/transgender-film-the-essential/" rel="nofollow">3</a> | <a href="http://letterboxd.com/windyblue/list/transgender-non-binary/" rel="nofollow">4</a> | <a href="http://letterboxd.com/porlock/list/a-history-of-transgender-in-film/" rel="nofollow">5</a> | <a href="http://letterboxd.com/yoofalk/list/trans-issues-themed-movies/" rel="nofollow">6</a> | <a href="http://letterboxd.com/windyblue/list/transguys-transmen-transmasculine-ftm/" rel="nofollow">7</a> |</p>
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> The good stuff, the niche stuff; the stuff you watched as a film student and didn't appreciate at the time, the stuff you watched at a long-lost lover's best friend's party, the stuff you caught at 2 am as a seven-year-old and only found again at the age of twenty-three... and so on.
Imported from https://letterboxd.com/nileinnit/list/the-hidden-gems-of-irreverent-pseuds-poseurs/. List originally assembled by 'nileinnit'.
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<p>explicit and subtext. sapphic movie ≠ romance. sapphic movie = sapphic themes and characters.</p>
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<p>a list of movies that feature one or more of the following elements:<br />-non-boring woman protagonist<br />-made by a woman or women<br />-authentic/complex/nuanced portrayal of women<br />-explores an issue specific to women/gender/race/intersectionality</p>
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<p>Overweight, loveless, wood paneling, empty parking lots, basements, loners, madness, sadness, isolation, depression, fantasy, eccentric, filth, sleaze...</p><p>Charlie Kaufman, Todd Solondz, Christopher Guest, Robert Bresson, Terry Zwigoff, Spike Jonze, Noah Baumbach, Jim Jarmusch, the patron saints.</p><p>One day we'll get our Confederacy of Dunces movie...</p><p>Here's a list on fandom: <a href="http://letterboxd.com/monocle/list/mondo-aficionado-documentaries-on-fandom/" rel="nofollow">letterboxd.com/monocle/list/mondo-aficionado-documentaries-on-fandom/</a></p><p>ADDED NOTE: It is kind of amazing how popular this list is, and fittingly this is probably the most well received thing I have ever done in my life. Sad indeed!</p>
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Per blu-ray.com:https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/search.php?action=search&ultrahd=1&sortby=recentlyadded
Part 1: https://trakt.tv/users/lish408/lists/37478474
Part 2: https://trakt.tv/users/lish408/lists/37478475
Part 3: https://trakt.tv/users/lish408/lists/37478476
UPDATED: October 29, 2026
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<p>Even comedic portrayals have value when looking back at history, since comedy is often a reflection of what is happening in contemporary society. Comedy is sometimes used as a soft approach to what may be seen as a risky subject, softening said subject in the eyes of the public.</p><p>Short films will not be added to this list unless they are of significant or historical value (ie early cinema). Similar criteria apply for documentaries. Modern day documentaries will not be added, so suggesting them is a moot point. If the drag component is a very short cameo and isn't of historical or cultural significance, it might not qualify for this list.</p><p>The criteria will not change so there is no use arguing with me to add something that does not fit the criteria for this list. I suggest you make you own list and spend your own time and energy on research and upkeep for it.</p>
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<p>From the list on MUBI:<br />"For now, this list will serve as a cinematic guide through queer cinema, from Kenneth Anger to Pier Paolo Pasolini to Gus Van Sant. The focus will be placed not simply on films with gay images but on films that aggressively thwart (or simply ignore) the heteronormative, patriarchal notions of gender and sexuality (which applies just as often to the western gay and lesbian community). Queer cinema does not concern itself with political correctness or restrictive labels in regard to a person’s sexual being. As time goes on, I’d like to include quotes from noted theorists, writers, filmmakers, artists, professors to better illustrate these ideas, but for now, here’s a list to start you off. Camp, New Queer Cinema, Fassbinder, avant-garde, melodrama, Tilda Swinton, transsexuals, pansexuals, gender fuck, Jean Genet, counter-culture, Joan Crawford… what more do you need?"</p><p><a href="https://mubi.com/lists/fox-and-his-queer-friends" rel="nofollow">mubi.com/lists/fox-and-his-queer-friends</a></p><p>I decided to transfer the list to Letterboxd because I don't have MUBI! :-(</p><p>NOT ON LETTERBOXD:<br />225. 575 Castro St. (Jenni Olson, 2009)<br />249. Face Addict (Edo Bertoglio, 2005)<br />284. Third Known Nest (Tom Kalin, 1999)<br />287. The Opening of Misty Beethoven (Radley Metzger, 1976)<br />296. Women Who Love Women: Conversations in Singapore (Lim Mayling, 2007)<br />300. Place Without Limits (Arturo Ripstein, 1978)<br />329. Covered (John Greyson, 2009)<br />355. Corruption of the Damned (George Kuchar, 1965)<br />360. The Little Death (Francois Ozon, 1995)<br />465. Le sexe des anges (Lionel Soukaz, 1977)<br />577. Sex My Life (Bahman Motamedian, 2008)<br />592. Skin Flick (Bruce Labruce, 1999)<br />799. Heroin (David Wojnarowicz, 1981)<br />810. The Bath (Lee Mi-Rang, 2007)<br />820. The Seduction of Angels (Jan Kruger, 2000)<br />840. Why do you exist? (Nick Zedd, 1998)<br />888. Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage (Mark Achbar, 1999)<br />903. The Sex Garage (Fred Halsted, 1972)<br />913. The Strongest (Ricky Mastro, 2009)<br />936. Sex/Life in LA (Jochen Hick, 1998)<br />939. The Good American (Jochen Hick, 2009)<br />948. Vapor (Kaveh Nabatian, 2010)<br />953. Tub Girls (Andy Warhol, 1967)<br />970. Lunch (Curt McDowell, 1972)<br />999. Pass This On (Johan Renck, 2003)<br />1024. Constanca (Jose Castro, 2010)<br />1032. Ricardo Becher, The Final Stage (Tomas Lipgot, 2010)<br />1073. Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS (Barbara Hammer, 1988)<br />1079. First Date (Gary Huggins, 2006)<br />1081. K (Juan Simons, 2005)<br />1093. The Bereaved (Alexander Pfeuffer, 2010)<br />1105. The One Who Loves Is Right (Arnold Pasquier, 2005)<br />1133. A Few Days of Respite (Amor Hakkar, 2011)<br />1169. Spokane (Larry Kennar, 2004)<br />1196. Pride (Ulrike Ottinger, 1980)</p>
Recommendations for everyone who wants to watch more movies by female directors but doesn't know where to start
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<p>Since my <a href="https://boxd.it/lITC" rel="nofollow">Films Directed By Women list</a> can be a little bit overwhelming – especially for people who haven't seen a lot of movies by female directors – I thought it would be a good idea to make a much smaller list with some recommendations.</p><p>I tried to cover as many genres as possible and include both popular and obscure choices as well as movies from all over the world. There are obviously a lot of blind spots (due to availability most of the movies on here are relatively new and from western countries) but I'm trying my best to find new stuff.</p><p>This is by no means a comprehensive list. I'm only adding movies I've seen and liked, but feel free to add suggestions in the comments.</p><p>And finally, here are some more specific lists: <a href="https://boxd.it/ptYU" rel="nofollow">Woman-made Documentaries</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/kfpw" rel="nofollow">Women World Film Directors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/16ZV0" rel="nofollow">Gore Gore Women</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1la5W" rel="nofollow">Women's Coming-of-Age Films</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/19M4y" rel="nofollow">Chinese Female Directors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1aZum" rel="nofollow">Hong Kong Female Directors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/19KR4" rel="nofollow">Japanese Female Directors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/19KFC" rel="nofollow">Korean Female Directors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1E5TK" rel="nofollow">Women in Animation</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/M2Ai" rel="nofollow">Iranian Female Directors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/ZL2G" rel="nofollow">Silent Films Directd by Women</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/qh2w" rel="nofollow">Little White Lies 100 Great Movies by Female Directors</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1aFI4" rel="nofollow">Black Women Film and Video Artists</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/saiw" rel="nofollow">100 Overlooked Films Directed by Women</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/IbEA" rel="nofollow">Sci-fi, Fantasy & Related Films Directed by Women</a>, <a href="https://boxd.it/1C60M" rel="nofollow">Indian Women Directors</a></p>
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<p>Small-time crook movies: they're an easy way for a young director to show off some emotion, some action, some plot twists, some youthful vibrancy, and a respect for cinema history. They let young renegades express themselves on limited resources. </p><p>The Wachowskis are probably the clearest example. They wanted to make <i>The Matrix</i> but were told they needed to prove themselves first, so they made an intimate caper just to get their careers rolling. Then, like many of the directors below, they immediately moved away from the crime genre.</p><p>There are two main archetypes: <i>Bonnie and Clyde</i> (two young criminals on the run), and <i>Breathless</i> (two young criminals disagree on how far to take things, with one of them basically having a death wish and the other wanting to pull back).</p>
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<p>Only narrative, non-documentary films running 1 hour+ are listed.<br />Films must feature either: A) An explicitly queer, female-identifying protagonist. B) At least two secondary queer female protagonists whose screen time matches or exceeds that of the protagonist. C) In cases of large, ensemble casts, 50% of characters/content must be queer with 50% of that queer content being female.<br />WLW characters must be explicitly, unavoidably queer. Subtext and undertones are for cowards.<br />Bisexual characters and narratives are represented provided that the attraction to women aspect is unavoidable, inarguable and not limited to a singular scene.<br />Polyamorous relationships are represented provided there is romantic/sexual content between two women in said relationship.<br />Wholly pornographic films are not represented.</p>
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<p>If a movie is co-directed the female director must be first billed</p>
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<p>PUNK<br />movement, philosophy, art, cinema, music</p><p>The release of Ramones’s first album in 1976 is considered the birth of punk rock. However, when Legs McNeil and John Holmstrom founded the magazine "Punk" in 1975 in a Connecticut’s basement, the rebelliousness and music that had eliminated guitar solos and denied any saleable attitude were already a feature of MC5, The Velvet Underground and the Stooges, to name just a few. Formed mostly by nerd comic fans and assiduous readers of authors who once dubbed the counterculture, punk rock was based on direct and short songs similar to a punch in the face. They amplified philosophical adolescent questions that according to the social system should be soon forgotten in exchange for adulthood, a stage in which one lives just to work and obey. In this case, to question is to resist and that is what many did. Such resistance began timidly in a New York city influenced by the glitter era, faced the distrust of the more puritan ones in London, gained gigantic proportions in Los Angeles during the early 80s and finally conquered the world.</p><p>Despite the changing nature of the movement, the pioneer’s greatest legacy is a "modus operandi" adaptable to numerous causes, which, as already mentioned, can be muffled by the social system. Punk became an ideology that puts at maximum volume everything that society prefers to keep as a whisper. Even the minorities, oppressed and silenced by the male and physically brutal nature of the first wave of punk rock, found in the molds of the early movement a way to trigger their own trajectories. As McNeil and Holmstrom, Kathleen Hanna and Tobi Vail (from the Bikini Kill band) and Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman used a magazine accompanied by a manifest to prepare the basis for the feminist strand called Riot Grrl. Even before the Riot Grrl, North America had already followed in the underground scene the effervescent Queercore, devoted to the expression of the LGBT causes. Empowerment through visibility (the act of making visible and publicizing your cause and your life) has always been firmly tied to the punk movement (even though it might be considered a kinesthetic "visibility", which hits the ears beyond the eyes literally through screaming and calls).</p><p>Such spectrum, which involves chords, ethics, politics and irony, has taken proportions that went beyond the music. Besides it was probably by means of identification and necessity that many forms of expression have been allied to punk. And cinema is part of this chaos, which is much more organized than many think. Directors such as Nick Zedd, Sogo Ishii, Penelope Spheeris, Alex Cox, F.J. Ossang, Amos Poe, Lech Kowalski, Bruce McDonald and Julien Temple, among others, have diluted punk’s microcosm in narratives, documents and audiovisual manifests. Kowalski, McDonald and Temple appear in this exhibition with works that are seminal to the definition of punk.</p><p>All of this would probably not have happened without the Ramones. Today they are an institution represented by thousands of T-shirts around the world. Unfortunately, the founders of the group did not survive to see the glory due to arduous years traveling in a cramped van, but the story behind the band is very intense, sad and, why not, one of the funniest of all times.</p><p>We did not plan to offer a nostalgic trip through these movies, but rather a necessary look at what has been left behind, so that we can take another step forward. What changes has the punk movement brought to music and performance? Can we do anything new? Again? If they made any revolution, it was only by chance and in a way completely oblivious to the industry. Independent. Our time has come.</p><p>Pedro Tavares</p>
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<p>That specific time period of the 70s and 80s (and sometimes 90s) that NYC will never look like again. Most of this completed via contributions, feel free to add suggestions and corrections as I cannot possibly watch them all.</p>
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<p>catálogo de filmes raros disponíveis em drive!<br />drive com todos os filmes: <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15MU6i93hwe-drvNXfvoJRZrFUS7KsQyK?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">drive.google.com/drive/folders/15MU6i93hwe-drvNXfvoJRZrFUS7KsQyK?usp=sharing</a><br />os links também estão disponíveis nas notas de cada filme aqui dentro do letterboxd mesmo.</p><p>twitter: <a href="https://x.com/drivelexandria" rel="nofollow">x.com/drivelexandria</a><br />telegram: <a href="https://t.me/drivedealexandria" rel="nofollow">t.me/drivedealexandria</a><br />notion: <a href="https://notion.so/1dbe55b94f2b808e9ccdec14f1fb841b?pvs=4" rel="nofollow">notion.so/1dbe55b94f2b808e9ccdec14f1fb841b?pvs=4</a></p>
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<p>Jordany's list from Mubi</p><p><a href="http://mubi.com/lists/hysterical-in-a-floral-dress" rel="nofollow">mubi.com/lists/hysterical-in-a-floral-dress</a></p>
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<p>The good stuff, the niche stuff; the stuff you watched as a film student and didn't appreciate at the time, the stuff you watched at a long-lost lover's best friend's party, the stuff you caught at 2 am as a seven-year-old and only found again at the age of twenty-three... and so on. </p><p>Under 20k views as of 30/11/23</p>
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<p>Punk rock movies are movies that meet some of three criteria:</p><p>(1) They have lots of actual punk fucking rock in them.<br />(2) They have the snarling "fuck you" attitude of punk rock.<br />(3) They're aligned with the downtrodden, outcast, and misfit peoples of the world.</p><p>Punk rock films are often loud, abrasive, anarchic, and strange. </p><p>This is a list of my favorite punk rock movies.</p>
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<p><a href="https://boxd.it/3ZVxm" rel="nofollow"><b>Check out the official top 100 narrative feature films by women directors list</b></a></p><p><b>FAQ (please read before commenting)</b></p><p><b>1) Why is [movie by male director] on here?</b><br />In most cases (Slumdog Millionaire, The Act of Killing, Out 1, Bela Tarr's movies) there's a female co-director who isn't credited everywhere. When it comes to new movies the reason is often that by the time I added the movie they credited as co-director and the credit was later changed to something else. Most of the time it's explained somewhere in the comments but of course it's possible that I accidentally added something that shouldn't be on here.<br /><b>2) Why is everything pink?????</b><br />It's sorted by colour, which you would notice if you spent more than 10 seconds looking at the list before commenting.<br /><b>3) Why is [movie by trans director] on here?</b><br />Trans women are women, if they made movies before they came out as trans women I'm gonna include it.<br /><b>4) What's the point of this list?</b><br />Female directors are still underrepresented in the film industry and this list is a place to highlight their movies no matter how good or bad they might be. If you want to watch more movies directed by women but are overwhelmed by the amount of movies on here I'd recommend you <a href="https://boxd.it/2qIJg" rel="nofollow">this list.</a><br /><b>5) Do you add shorts?</b><br />No. The list is already long enough as it is. Unfortunately that means I can't include a lot of silent films but I have a separate list for them <a href="https://boxd.it/ZL2G" rel="nofollow">over here.</a><br /><b>6) Do you take recommendations?</b><br />Yes!!</p>
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<p>Films with any lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, pansexual, agender, aromantic, questioning, bigender, third gender, queer, non-binary, or otherwise not cisgender or heterosexual content. Or directors/performers where noteworthy. Not necessarily explicit nor even positive depictions; I merely have to have a more or less positive view of the film overall. </p><p>Includes films I or others have drawn queer or trans readings from without explicit trans or queer content, but as always, I will be the judge of that.</p>
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<p>The title explains the list. <br />Last update in: 07/31/2026</p><p>I'm happy to discover some cool feminist movies that arent always directed by men, about men, spelled around the men' subjectivity, and from lots of countries worldwide (I'm a brazilian myself).<br />Whenever I know about a movie in the theme, I'll add it here immediatly. <br />Thanks a lot about lots of you following this list.</p><p>Ps.: I'm trying to keep this list as much updated as possible.</p>
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<p><a href="https://signal.group/#CjQKIO7OSZelQw8aND_JEsJaamBHPY7aZtrxoZdPZTbheQcHEhDEy6rleemCRL4KDiLzDVG8" rel="nofollow">signal.group/#CjQKIO7OSZelQw8aND_JEsJaamBHPY7aZtrxoZdPZTbheQcHEhDEy6rleemCRL4KDiLzDVG8</a></p><p>WOW LETTERBOXD WOW LETTERBOXD STAFF ACTUALLY CAME IN HERE AND ERASED THE LIST DESCRIPTION AND THE WONDERFUL LOVING THING SOMEONE SAID ABOUT TRANS FOLKS JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE IT'S UNFASHIONABLE TO LIKE SAID IT. HOW DARE YOU.</p><p><a href="https://letterboxd.com/9413/tag/lgbtq/lists/" rel="nofollow">letterboxd.com/9413/tag/lgbtq/lists/</a></p>