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Presenting as Myself: On Femininity and the Queer

Presenting as Myself: On Femininity and the Queer

As my hands rummage through my collection of button-downs, they fall on a periwinkle-colored floral, long-sleeved, with little blue buttons…
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I Am So Excited For Emmerich’s Stonewall

Heralded by the Daily Mail as “shed[ding] light on gay rights movement”, the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall — out September 25th —…
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a black trans woman leaves her house — maybe for a party…

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a black trans woman leaves her house — maybe for a party…

She never comes back.
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Beauty and Cruelty weaves modernity into fairy tales

Beauty and Cruelty weaves modernity into fairy tales

Cruelty and Beauty is, on the surface, yet another fractured fairy tale. It concerns itself with Sleeping Beauty and the Evil Fairy and a…
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The 11 Greatest Characters of 2015

All great years have great fictions — it’s the only way humans can make sense of them. And all great fictions have great characters. The…
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In Art Angels, Grimes grasps onto the hyperfeminine

In Art Angels, Grimes grasps onto the hyperfeminine

Pop music is often, and easily, stereotyped as feminine: its vocals are light and airy, it’s dominated by women musicians, and easily…
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Holly Woodlawn, actress and and one of the last Warhol Superstars, dies age 69

Holly Woodlawn, actress and and one of the last Warhol Superstars, dies age 69

Holly Woodlawn was a Warhol Superstar, and starred in his films Trash and Women in Revolt — garnering a campaign to get her an Academy…
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9 Best Things On The Internet This Year

9 Best Things On The Internet This Year

We all know the Internet has many riches, and this year has been better than most. We have seen the Meme Renaissance with our own two eyes…
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“When Giraffes Flew” shows promise, but the short stories are too many, too short

“When Giraffes Flew” shows promise, but the short stories are too many, too short

All the best short stories have a moment of truth — the Flannery O’Connor moment. It’s a hard art to master, and many of those who are…
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