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    My Favorite F***ing Movie: Yes, God, Yes

    / May 6, 2025

    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

    / April 1, 2025

    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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  • Still from the film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013).
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    My Favorite F***ing Movie: Only Lovers Left Alive

    / February 28, 2025

    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

    / January 30, 2025

    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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  • Still from I Saw the TV Glow: sidewalk chalk reading "There is still time."
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    Pride 2024 Queer Movie Recommendations (Part II)

    / June 29, 2024

    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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  • Still from Femme.
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    Pride Month 2024 Queer Movie Recommendations (Part I)

    / June 11, 2024

    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

    / December 28, 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…

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  • Still from the film CAM (2018).
    essays,  film

    Revisiting CAM Five Years Later

    / October 19, 2023

    I was just rewatching the brilliant film CAM (2018) yesterday – about a camgirl whose identity is stolen – and I was struck by how incredibly prescient the movie was when it first…

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  • essays,  film

    Ode to the Slutty Halloween Costume

    / October 6, 2023

    “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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