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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Fish Out of (Pasta) Water in Gabriele Mainetti’s ‘The Forbidden City’ (2025)

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on April 2, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Pow! Kids with Guns and the SOV Surrealism of Hawk Jones (1986)

By Michelle on March 26, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Relax and Enjoy the Mystery: Deadloch and How to Get to Heaven From Belfast

By Critterlab on March 19, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

“Remember Quick that Life is Death”: Mother of Flies (2025)

By Carol on March 12, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ Tries and Tries Again

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on March 5, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Blood Pact: Exploring SOV Director Glenn Andreiev’s Infatuation with the Vampire Mythos

By Michelle on February 26, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

REOWRR! An Incomplete History of Cats in Professional Wrestling

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on June 26, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

If you’ve watched a pair of kittens or even a fully grown cat who has become entangled in the curtains for long enough, you’d probably agree that if there is an animal best suited for pro wrestling, it’s the species felidae.

Happy Pride from Filmi Ladies Podcast!

By Guttersnipe on June 25, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate Pride in filmi style! “To close out Pride month, we look at 3 Indian films that feature LGBTQIA+ characters: Fire (1996), Nil Nirjane (2003), and Arekti Premer Golpo (2010).” Listen / watch […]

“Notes on The Howling’s werewolf Jonestown”

By Guttersnipe on June 24, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Sara Century has some thoughts on The Howling (1981). “1981 saw the release of three prominent werewolf movies: An American Werewolf in London, Wolfen, and of course, The Howling. Each of them explored werewolf mythos in a contemporary context with different results. All would […]

Autostraddle’s Top 100 Lesbian Films of All Time!

By Guttersnipe on June 23, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Sure, this list is about a year old, but there’s still 100 fine Lesbian and Bisexual films from all genres for you peruse. See it here.

“Stripper Energy: Fighting Back from the Fringes!”

By Guttersnipe on June 22, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando won an Emmy for her KPBS podcast, “Stripper Energy: Fighting Back From the Fringes!” “Do you know what stripper energy is? Let three women who worked as dancers at Les Girls Theater in San Diego expose you to the naked truth about […]

“Carmen Maria Machado Considers Jennifer’s Body”

By Guttersnipe on June 21, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

In an Autostraddle excerpt from the excellent collection of essays, It Came From The Closet, Carmen Maria Machado considers Jennifer’s Body, bisexuality and the fluidity of identity and relationships through time. “It’s happened to me several times now: someone who doesn’t know me very well asks me about […]

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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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