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“Like A Cat Up A Palm Tree Who’s Decided To Go Up A Palm Tree”: The Genius of Jamie Dornan in Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar
Friends, there are certainly things I enjoyed about Fifty Shades of Grey, but neither the book nor the film was earth-shattering for yours truly. As for the film, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson did a good job of building that chemistry, I thought. But when it comes to Jamie Dornan, let me be clear about… Continue reading
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Alas! Something Devastating Happened! She Made “A Woman’s Automatic Gesture”!
Friends, I’ll open this post with an irony warning! Prepare yourselves…. As a nonbinary person, I may need some help working out the following. It takes place in The Sicilian Marriage by Sandra Marton, which I enjoyed, during a sex scene when both characters are naked: “She made a woman’s automatic gesture of modesty and… Continue reading
About US
Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I’m queer, nonbinary, and intersex, and I use they/them pronouns. My hubby Jake is LGBTQIA+ too, as is our duck, name of Duck—he’s super-ducking awesome. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because we wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?
We used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out, we thought romance didn’t want us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.
Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching.
Want to know more about Star’s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance stories, novels, and novellas with presses like Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from the likes of Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star’s nonfiction about gender identity has appeared in The New York Times and at Huffington Post Personal.
Please follow us here for romance reviews and personal rambles. And thanks so much for reading.
Let’s do this!
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