MOVIE CLUB: Mamma Mia (Or Is It DADDA Mia?) With Garrett Bucks

A juicy, earnestly silly over-think of Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again (Sarah’s preferred Mamma Mia) in which Sarah’s friend

Garrett Bucks

joins us with a spicy-hot take on the three (three!) dads of Mamma Mia. When Bucks is not thinking about the rich, layered texts that are Mamma Mia and Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again, he keeps busy doing Dad Stuff, as well as working as an anti-racist organizer and educator, and authoring the Substack Newsletter The White Pages. If you like his take on Mamma Mia, you may also love his memoir, The Right Kind of White.

Links:

• Garrett’s new memoir, The Right Kind of White

• Garrett’s great newsletter, The White Pages, and his “Ten Movies, Ten Stories of Whiteness” series.

• Actually good dad screen-recs:

  • Together (the Swedish one)

  • The Sandlot

  • Interstellar

  • Eighth Grade

  • How Bluey Made me a Better Dad

• Sarah Wheeler
  ’s 4000 words on Whiteness and Dirty Dancing