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Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

813: Lez-ssentials Sense8

Lez Hang Out | A Lesbian Podcast

Lez Hang Out

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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When you join our Lez Hang Out family on Patreon you will gain instant access to 24 and counting full-length bonus episodes, ad-free weekly episodes, mp3 downloads of all our original songs, an invite to our exclusive Discord channel, and more! We can’t wait to see you there.  You can also support the podcast by buying our original merch at bit.ly/lezmerch.  Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is forever in its Wachowski era.  This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) talk about the 2015 Netflix series Sense8 for this Lez-ssentials episode, a recurring segment on the essential movies and TV shows in the lesbian canon.  Sense8 is an incredibly queer show that we honestly cannot believe first premiered a whole entire decade ago. It truly ranks up there next to Orphan Black for us as one of the most impressive shows ever to exist on television. Although we really wish it had gotten more seasons, what we did get was an absolute masterpiece. Sense8 was nominated for GLAAD media awards in 2016, 2018 and 2019 for its queer representation and if you did not get a chance to watch it back then, we really cannot recommend enough that you watch it right now. Like for real, why are you reading this? Go watch Sense8 first and then listen to the episode, because this is full of spoilers from here on.  As you might recall from our episodes on The Matrix and Bound, we are big fans of the Wachowski sisters’ work. Sense8 is no exception. In fact, Lana Wachowski has said that much of Nomi’s storyline was autobiographical in nature. In terms of lesbian couples in media, it doesn’t get much more top tier than Nomi and Amanita. Honestly, they might still be at the top even now. We love that Amanita is so ride or die for Nomi; and in context of it being 2015 at the time, the scenes where she defends Nomi against her terfy friends hit even harder. But, as much as we are all in on Nomi and Amanita, they are not the only queer rep in this show. In fact, we’d argue that every single person in the cluster is queer simply by nature of being a sense8. By having this diverse group of people all across the globe suddenly psychically linked, the Wachowskis make a statement about the nature of sexuality, the value of shared experiences in relation to developing empathy, and what it means to be a “we” in all senses of the word.  At the end of the episode, stick around to hear our original song based on Sense8, titled “Sum of Our Parts”, written by Leigh Holmes Foster and produced by Ellie Brigida. Join us on Patreon at bit.ly/lezpatreon for instant access to mp3 downloads of all our original songs or find us on Bandcamp to purchase songs individually.  Remember, you can give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Instagram and follow along on Facebook, TikTok, Youtube and BlueSky @lezhangoutpod.  Find your fav tol and smol hosts Ellie & Leigh at @elliebrigida and @lshfoster respectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's hang out.

0:02.4

Let's hang out.

0:03.4

And let's talk about what lesings are found.

0:06.0

Let's hang out.

0:06.9

And let's listen to two has me and shout.

0:09.6

Let's hang out.

0:14.4

Hey, out.

0:15.0

Hey, everyone.

0:15.8

Welcome back to Les Hang out, the podcast where hey hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

0:26.4

I said, hey, what's going on?

0:31.7

I mean, you have to.

0:33.4

The perfect soundtrack to a lobotomy.

0:35.7

Yeah, exactly.

0:37.3

There's just, there's no other option as a song intro for this episode. From the West Coast, I'm Lee Holmes Foster. From the East Coast, I'm Ellie Bridgeta. To those who have been with us through this whole journey, thank you as always for listening. If you're a new listener, welcome, we're excited to have you here. Here's what's happening this week. This week in the Lesdom is a place where you can

0:58.5

touch base each episode about things going with the podcast or otherwise. In season eight, we are still

1:02.6

releasing our Patreon bonus episodes. Dix the Musical was our last one. And we're going to be doing

1:07.3

our next one on Amelia Perez. So get ready for that. If you want to hear those, you can join at bit.

1:11.6

Dot Lee slash Les Patreon.

1:13.3

In the greater Les universe, Lucy Dacus' video came out featuring all the hot masks,

1:17.8

and it was pretty much everything we thought it would be.

1:20.0

Masks who are hot.

1:21.4

So if you haven't checked that out, you should definitely watch.

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