06/07/2026
Community is ageless, genderless, and built in the most unlikely places. Today we’re spotlighting an underrated gem of the 2010s q***r canon: Desiree Akhavan’s “The Miseducation of Cameron Post.”
Based on Emily M Danforth’s 2012 novel, the film follows Cameron Post, a recently orphaned teenager sent to a Christian conversion therapy program by her conservative aunt. Akhavan shot it for under a million dollars in just 23 days.
Akhavan has said she didn’t set out to make a message movie. For her, the film was “a metaphor for something anyone could relate to, which is the minute you become a teenager, gay, straight, whatever ethnicity, you feel diseased, like something’s deeply wrong with you.”
The result is a portrait of coming-of-age, identity, friendship, and loss that centers intersecting identities, including Indigenous and POC youth, rarely seen in q***r adolescent storytelling.
The film took home the Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival , the festival’s top honor. At the ceremony, star Chloe Grace Moretz dedicated the win to LGBTQ+ survivors of sexual conversion therapy.
If you haven’t seen it, consider this your sign.
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