Our friends at the Feminine Critique watch Valentine (2001) and The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015), a film formerly known as February! “Hello lovers! We’re diving into February with, well, a movie formerly titled February and one set on the month’s most famous day. Up first is the ‘I Can’t […]
Listen up, everybody, Grant Morrison has some things to say! “To undermine the fundamental appeal of superheroes like Superman and Supergirl by re-casting them as anti-heroes at best or outright monsters – dragging imaginary childhood paragons off their pedestals to reinforce a fairly facile point about the tendency […]
Our friends at Podcast on Fire watch Derek Yee’s Shinjuku Incident! Listen here.
I don’t think I have to tell you that pro wrestlers are a generally mercurial bunch. You pretty much have to be in order to exist between the real and unreal worlds where pro wrestling resides, that blurred-line known as Kayfabe*. Of these profoundly odd men and women, […]
Robin Pogrebin writes here about the conflict over rights to Henry Darger’s work. “When the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger died in Chicago at 81 in 1973, leaving a single room crammed with his colorful illustrations, a 15,000-page book and no immediate surviving relatives, Darger’s landlord began showing, sharing and […]
At Slate, Evan Urquhart writes about Meat Loaf, Butch Lesbian Icon. “Gay and queer aesthetics are known for stepping outside of stereotypical categories for male/masculine and woman/feminine, but they often they make that step in one fairly predictable direction that we call androgyny. Androgyny is an aesthetic of […]
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