Autostraddle’s Top 100 Lesbian Films of All Time!
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!”
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”
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 […]
Dancing With the Devil: The Culturally Rich Tapestry of Sinners
This week’s Guest Star is Michelle Kisner. Keep up with her on Instagram at @robotcookie! ~~~ In the first act of Sinners (2025), a blues singer named Delta Slim (played by Delroy Lindo) recounts a story from his past while being driven through an expansive field of cotton, […]
“A History of Funk Music and Black Liberation in the 1970s”
The Independent Lens has a look at Funk and Black Liberation. “‘WE WANT THE FUNK!,’ a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spans from gospel, soul, highlife, and early jazz roots, to its rise and impact on new wave and hip-hop, as funk music has been […]
Fréwaka: Never Go Through The Red Door
There is nothing charming about the red fairy door we encounter in Aislinn Clark’s Irish language horror film, Fréwaka (Ireland, 2024).* Its fairy tree is old and hung with scissors and bones. And there is nothing safe about the Good Folk attracted to the house with the fairy door in it.
