film
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My Favorite F***ing Movie: I Wanted To Be Bad
Before we get into this month’s writing, some housekeeping: I’m thrilled to have contributed to the brilliant Rachel Moss’s substack, Internet Bedroom, specifically her series, “What’s In Your Room?” As the name suggests,…
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My Favorite F***ing Movie: Shadowboxing with Boys (American Pie)
I’ve been thinking about men a lot lately. I think we all have, whether we want to (we don’t) or not. I would love to de-center men, but they are everywhere, owning and…
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My Favorite F***ing Movie: For the Girls Who Go Both Ways (Jennifer’s Body)
So I guess this is a released-at-the-beginning-of-the-month essay series now. It may have slipped your mind that June is Pride Month (it seems to have slipped passed every major corporation this year, for…
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My Favorite F***ing Movie: Yes, God, Yes
Apologies for this month’s essay being a smidge late; my husband recently started a night job at Universal and I barely know what day it is lately. My birthday was in April and…
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My Favorite F***ing Movie: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
I have Covid right now—get vaccinated kiddos, it’s still a thing!—so I wasn’t able to finish the essay I had planned on posting this month. Instead, enjoy this essay that originally appeared in…
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My Favorite F***ing Movie: Only Lovers Left Alive
My mom died last October and ever since—and despite being a pretty skeptical agnostic most of my life—I haven’t been able to help imagining some sort of afterlife. The possibility of it. Coupled…
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New Essay Series: My Favorite F***ing Movie
I’m very excited to announce a new essay series I’ll be releasing monthly all year long: My Favorite F***ing Movie is a personal exploration of sex through film, and Go (1999) is the…
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Pride 2024 Queer Movie Recommendations (Part II)
There were not enough queer movies in the second half of June for my taste (are there ever, though?), but the ones I did see really blew me away. If you missed my…
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Pride Month 2024 Queer Movie Recommendations (Part I)
All the queer movies I’ve enjoyed in June (or, you know, close to June) thus far. New(ish) movies: Femme My favorite movie of 2024 so far, hands down. Utterly tense, shockingly sexy, and…
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Favorite (Mostly Queer) Films of 2023
While the horror pickings were, in my opinion, a bit slim this year, 2023 was a banner year for being queer in film. A year so good that Barbie and Bottoms didn’t even…
