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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

The Little Detective That Did: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!

By Beth Watkins on June 11, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Summer Fun Time Reading ’26

By Carol on June 4, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Don’t Sleep on Simon Glassman’s ‘Buffet Infinity’ (2025)

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on May 28, 2026 • ( 2 Comments )

Fatal Kisses, Leather Daddies, and Evil Tofu: Queer Coding in Video Games

By Critterlab on May 14, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Some Thoughts on a Film that Disappeared: Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer

By Carol on May 7, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Monsters & Mullets: Labyrinth

By Guttersnipe on April 30, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

“The Gay Love Stories of Moomin and the Queer Radicality of Tove Jansson”

By Guttersnipe on November 6, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

At Autostraddle, Hannah Williams writes about Tove Jansson and Moomin. “Jansson’s queerness is often left out in stories of her life. Puffin editions of Moomin books talked about how she lived alone on her Finnish island; documentaries still talk of Pietilä as a lifelong friend. Jansson is no
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“38 Thoughts We Had While Watching Species”

By Guttersnipe on November 5, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Sara Century shares her thoughts on Species at Syfy Wire! “Sex in the City‘s fifth cast member: Species in the City. Fund it.”

Films Kimberly Lindbergs wrote about for FilmStruck

By Guttersnipe on November 4, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter and former FilmStruck writer Kimberly Lindbergs has gathered together a list of recommended FilmStruck films for you to watch. Make sure to read her essays on the films!

The Adventure Zone Halloween Special!

By Guttersnipe on November 4, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

The Adventure Zone Halloween Special is fun listening anytime! It’s “an exquisitely spooky live adventure! It’s our Halloween Special, and boy howdy, is it a wild one.”

Everyday Halloween Costumes

By Guttersnipe on November 3, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Enjoy all these Halloween costumes of people from everyday life at Japan’s “Sober Halloween” event!

“11 Works of Trans-Positive Science Fiction and Fantasy”

By Guttersnipe on November 2, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Ross Johnson shares 11 works of Trans-positive science fiction and fantasy at the B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog!

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The Cultural Gutter is a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. The site is updated every Thursday afternoon. Carol Borden, Sachin Hingoo, Alex MacFadyen, Beth Watkins, and Michelle Kisner probe science fiction, draw out the best in comics, stare deeply into the screen, sink their fangs into horror, dally with romance, speedrun their brains on videogames, grapple with wrestling, and explore so much more. Our Guest Stars shine here. Thanks to Gutter aesthetic director Brian Kirby for all his swank art. Thanks to EJ Lee for providing the fantastic art we used in the Cultural Gutter book. The Cultural Gutter's signature nail polishes, "Disreputable," and, "Disreputable 2: Hellcat," were created by Andrea Evans of MPZ Cosmetics. MPZ Cosmetics also teamed up with Dill McKinley to recreate the classic fragrance, Cornichon by Dill McKinley for Gutterthon 2021. Follow us on Bluesky, Facebook, and Mastodon. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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