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Pillion offers something rare in mainstream cinema: a queer kinky love story that neither pathologizes nor punishes its characters, nor ends with a big fat gay wedding. (A24)

Kinky caricature no more: How Pillion is rewriting BDSM cinema

Ummni Khan, Carleton University

The rom-com Pillion traces a tender shift in how kinky gay men are represented on screen.
Emily Lê and Daniel Beirne star in the film that sees director and multidisciplinary artist Sook-Yin Lee adapt the graphic memoir of her ex-lover, Chester Brown, for the screen. (Wilding Pictures & Hawkeye Pictures)

In Paying For It, ex‑lovers reimagine friendship, family and the meaning of sex work

Ummni Khan, Carleton University

In ‘Paying For It,’ exes maintain their bond and their shared home, even as one dates a string of men and the other finds intimacy through sex work.

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