Susan Braudy writes a very in-depth piece on her experience of writing on the Women’s Liberation movement and Feminism for Playboy in 1969. “Almost as soon as I arrived in Manhattan to seek my fortune, I backed into a knuckle-bruising battle with Playboy’s Hugh Hefner. My new city-slick […]
At Beth Loves Bollywood, the Gutter’s own Beth reviews Manmohan Desai’s Kismat. “I’m on a mission to watch all of Manmohan Desai’s movies before the end of this academic semester, and unless one of the remainders* turns out to be absolute duds, Kismat is taking the prize for the worst […]
At Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, author Nisi Shawl offers “A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.” In 1909 Harvard’s president, Charles W. Eliot, issued a 51-volume anthology he claimed could provide its owners with a complete liberal arts education. In the same vein, I’ve pulled […]
Trina Robbins shares free downloads of her book, Lily Renée, Escape Artist, at her website. Robbins writes about Renée, a comics creator who had fled Vienna in 1938. Renee worked on comics like Werewolf Hunter and Señorita Rio.
Jackie Ormes drew comics for Black newspapers from the 1930s through the 1950s. She was popular and well known, even friends with people like Lena Horne, who might’ve influenced her most famous creation, Torchy Brown, and Eartha Kitt. But Ormes disappeared like so many talented women and men […]
At Daily Beast, Goldie Taylor interviews Doris Payne, an 85 year-old African-American international jewel thief. “Posing as a well-moneyed customer with long dollars to spend, Payne learned to simply make them all forget. An insurance payout, an inheritance. She wooed her victims with detailed backstories. Often, it would […]
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