The Washington Post recently featured an article on the anti-valentine movement gathering strength – they declared that “teens are disconnecting from Valentine’s Day in an act of self-love” and that Valentine’s Day has more potential to “hurt, harm, terrorize and traumatize people than anything Halloween serves up.” Keeping with that trend, earlier today, we premiered Jess Silber’s It Hurts to Love a Woman – a queer story of two almost-lovers on a quest for self-love that also features in our playlist below.
We’ve put together this light-hearted Anti-Valentine playlist in which there are hints of independence, courage, living life, warnings as well as reflections on the mundane, domesticity, wanderlust and taking a mind vacation. There may also be a lie or two masquerading as an anti-Valentine…