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The adults are dealing with family secrets, spectral paintings, authoritarian patriarchs, and of course, magical peril. It may be counterintuitive to link this cotton candy show to the gothic, but try shifting your point of view from the students to the teachers.
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Danvers in Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) This is written in the style of a grumpy old teacher, so each section includes an example from film history with a corresponding academic citation (Tumblr blocks posts with outside links I recommend searching Google Books). I’m proposing three longstanding lesbian motifs that resonate with Cassidy’s interpretation of Miss Hardbroom, hopefully helping to illuminate why everyone is reading it as hella gay. I can’t stop thinking about how Cassidy masterfully deploys tropes with a deep history of queer connotation, so I wanted to situate Hecate in this genealogy. My fellow useless lesbians, can we take a moment to appreciate Raquel Cassidy’s stunning performance as Hecate Hardbroom? The fact that we’re all here for HB attests to the rich queer coding of this character, and moreover, to the continuing vitality of lesbian decoding practices.