The Alphabet of Insects
At Gallica you can peruse Léon Becker’s Alphabet Des Insectes from 1883. Its scanned pages and illustrations are grlorious. Read it here.
Filmi Ladies: Watching the Rainbow: Orange!
“Dazzling, devotional, dangerous orange guides our choices today! Beth was bamboozled by the marigolds in Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, and Pitu saw spiritually-inspired sacrifice in Aditya Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Love—or loves plural, really—are at the center of these films, which is not unusual on this […]
Filmi Ladies: Firangi Films!
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about firangi films, aka, films made by foreigners set in India! “We’ve discussed Indians making films set elsewhere, and now it’s time to flip the script: foreigners making films set in […]
“Messy queers, romantic entanglements come to life in moody color in ‘How Could You’”
At Bitches on Comics, Priya Saxena interviews Ren Strapp. “Ren Strapp’s How Could You is a graphic novel about a group of queer college students and all the ways their love lives intersect. Molly tries to move on from her ex-girlfriend but stands to get her heart broken […]
Coralie Fargeat’s Homemade Star Wars Film!
Letterboxd has filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s1993 Star Wars film. “30 years ago, when I was 17 years old, I made a little Star Wars film. Using my family’s camcorder, I animated my toys frame by frame in stop motion, disguised my friends as Ewoks and stormtroopers, and edited on […]
“I’m A Whatever!”
At their blog, Tom Alberta writes about the Great Gonzo, Queerness and Jean-Francois Lyotard: “It’s not exactly a secret: Queers are sneaky. Traditionally deprived of role models who think and act like us, we have become experts in the art of subverting characters in nominally ‘wholesome’ media. Everybody’s […]
The Cultural Gutter 