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Sara McHenry

Summer Vacation 1969/1994/2019

Every August, Tom and I celebrate our dating anniversary with a trip to New Buffalo, Michigan. Our first date was August 1st, 2002: we saw…

8 min readOct 1, 2019

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Sara McHenry

Kinds of Men

A taxonomy of the men in Rosemary’s Baby, which also serves as a taxonomy of men in patriarchal society.

4 min readDec 6, 2018

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Sara McHenry

Point/Counterpoint: Phantom Thread

My good friend Caroline Kenworthy and I had very different reactions to the movie Phantom Thread (2017, written and directed by Paul Thomas…

13 min readJul 27, 2018

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Point/Counterpoint: Phantom Thread

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Sara McHenry

Minority Report

Dir. Steven Spielberg, 2002. Starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton

7 min readJun 7, 2018

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Minority Report

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Sara McHenry

Feminine rhyme in the lyrics of The Mountain Goats

John Darnielle has been called, in a much-quoted honorific from New York magazine, America’s “best non-hip-hop lyricist.” A fair point, but…

7 min readMay 31, 2018

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Sara McHenry

Her Body And Other Parties: Stories, by Carmen Maria Machado

A lot of people misinterpret the Bechdel Test as a definitive litmus test: is the story feminist or not? (The test, if you don’t know, is…

4 min readMar 27, 2018

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Her Body And Other Parties: Stories, by Carmen Maria Machado

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Sara McHenry

Patriarchy and the Smashed Rat

I’ve lived in Chicago for thirteen years, and I’ve seen a lot of rats. Huge, feral, urban rats. Most of them have been dead. Sure, I’ll…

3 min readDec 18, 2017

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Patriarchy and the Smashed Rat

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Sara McHenry

“We Will Get There When We Get There, Don’t You Worry”: On Mountain Goats songs that take place in…

The Mountain Goats have a lot of songs about places. There’s a whole series of “Going To…” songs about Going To A Place. They’re also…

5 min readDec 11, 2017

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“We Will Get There When We Get There, Don’t You Worry”: On Mountain Goats songs that take place in…

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Sara McHenry

Sara McHenry

Writer, project manager, cat lady, weightlifter, vegetable enthusiast. Check out Your McHenries on Patreon: patreon.com/yourmchenries

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