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The Varda Variations: (Re)introductions of the Auteure in Documenteur and Beyond

so mayer — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:53:06 +0000

If I’m no good at pretending to be a man and no good at being young, I might just as well start pretending that I am an old woman. I am not sure that anybody has invented old women yet; but it might be worth trying. — Ursula K. Le Guin, “Introducing Myself,” The Wave […]

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In Praise of Soft Cock

so mayer — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:50:29 +0000

It was never the crude pestle, the blind ramrod we were after: merely a fellow-creature with natural resources equal to our own. — Adrienne Rich, “Natural Resources,” The Dream of a Common Language. * As trans and anti-racist critiques of the now-iconic knitted pink “pussy hats” (worn at Women’s Marches around the world on Jan. […]

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HOLY TILDA SWINTON!

so mayer — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:38:53 +0000

“Holy Tilda Swinton!” These three words—proclaimed in the sci-fi series Orphan Black (2014-) to describe the arrival of a transmasculine clone—articulate the cinematic gift that is our most mercurial, protean actor: Katherine Matilda Swinton. At home in the sci-fi genre, Swinton’s grace is in her transformations, especially those of gender. Whether she is narrating Björk […]

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Wet Hot Lesbian Summers

so mayer — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:56:02 +0000

In 2015, girl camp finally had the coming-out party it had been waiting for. While touring her low-budget cult film fave, All About Evil (2010), Peaches Christ—drag queen, filmmaker and tour de force—turned her PR tour into an all-singing, all-dancing screening of But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 1999) along with Natasha Lyonne, the star […]

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The Art of (Feminist Film) Work in the Age of Digital Reproduction

so mayer — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:14:48 +0000

Some time in your life you will have occasion to say “What is this thing called time? What is that?” There’s the clock: you go to work by the clock, you get your martini in the afternoon by the clock, you get your coffee by the clock, you have to get on a plane at […]

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