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All My Moms Are Movies Now #2: The Galentine’s Day Issue
Welcome back to another issue of All My Moms Are Movies Now – a very exciting issue, in fact, as it’s the Galentine’s Day issue. I don’t know if the whole “Galentine’s” thing…
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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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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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On Britney’s Instagram, Selfies & the Mercurial Need to Be Perceived
I spend a fair amount of time defending women’s selfies in my head. Whenever I see comments on Instagram photos accusing women of “just wanting attention” or being “attention whores” because of the…
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Ode to the Slutty Halloween Costume
“In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” That quote is uttered by…
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On Girls and Goths in the Early Aughts
I think horror was always a part of my identity, lurking somewhere deep in my bones, long before I realized it. All things being relative, coming of age during the early aughts as…