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Sarah Fonseca
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Oct 25, 2022

Buck Up, Babes. Some of Us Can’t Unbuck.

This year, I began the nebulous process of wresting back my body from whatever foiled me during the pandemic, only to find the human that I once was woefully inadequate, while the one I had a vague hankering to become felt strange and unarticulated, a Persian miniature forbidden by the…

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Apr 4, 2021

YouTube Archive №1: “Our Trans Tube”; Discussing Feminism in 1994

Several years ago, I felt inspired to contribute a “Heresy” — a fan-type piece on a cultural artifact, more or less lesbian, with which one is obsessed — to the Brussels-based feminist magazine Girls Like US / GLU. As with writing for “community” legacy publications and presses like Cleis Press…

Literature

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YouTube Archive №1: “Our Trans Tube”; Discussing Feminism in 1994
YouTube Archive №1: “Our Trans Tube”; Discussing Feminism in 1994
Literature

4 min read


Mar 9, 2021

So it’s strong women you want | What to watch, March 2021

Rape reckoning and revenge aplenty; the lesbian Civil Rights activist you’ve been dying to meet; Billie Holiday’s middle finger; Jane Fonda, uncensored. Follow list of March 2021 recommendations on Letterboxd. ☐ F.T.A. Director: Francine Parker Writers: Michael Alaimo, Len Chandler, Pamela Donegan, Jane Fonda, Rita Martinson, Robin Menken, Holly Near, Donald…

Film

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So it’s strong women you want | What to watch, March 2021
So it’s strong women you want | What to watch, March 2021
Film

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Feb 13, 2021

The New Lesbian Subtext

All my experience concerning masturbation in little girls has related to the clitoris and not to the regions of the external genitalia that are important in later sexual functioning. …

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The New Lesbian Subtext
The New Lesbian Subtext

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Jan 19, 2021

Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Her Smell’

‘Her Smell’ is largely set in the labyrinthine underworld of punk venue green rooms. The already warped strain even further under the weight of audience hunger and the an opening act’s reverb. Alex Ross Perry’s latest dizzies and asphyxiates the viewer with the minutiae of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n…

Elisabeth Moss

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Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Her Smell’
Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Her Smell’
Elisabeth Moss

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Jan 15, 2021

The Truth Amid JT LeRoy’s Fictions

JT LeRoy, Justin Kelly’s new biopic on the creation and exposure of the cult author of the same pen name, opens with an Oscar Wilde epigraph: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. This sentiment, repurposed from a puckish 1890s play to introduce Kelly’s film on punking 1990s celebrity…

Jt Leroy

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The Truth in JT LeRoy’s Lies
The Truth in JT LeRoy’s Lies
Jt Leroy

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Dec 8, 2020

A Candy-Colored Cult Sweetens at 20

‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ comes of age. Bursts of orange as tempting as pre-pandemic citrus palomas with friends. An excess of sporty pinks that make Legally Blonde seem like child’s play. Nursery room blues that confirm that ‘blue’ is not only the warmest color, but most fun. A cult…

Jamie Babbit

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A Candy-Colored Cult Sweetens at 20
A Candy-Colored Cult Sweetens at 20
Jamie Babbit

6 min read


Nov 24, 2020

All in the Family

Film history is rife with dream teams, all too frequently auteur-muse in nature: von Sternberg and Dietrich, Godard and Karina, Tarantino and Pitt. But few have surpassed Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards in talent, daring, or capacity for mischief. After falling in love on the set of Edwards’ ill-received and…

Julie Andrews

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All in the Family
All in the Family
Julie Andrews

5 min read


Oct 24, 2020

Georgie Tatum Took an Axe and Gave His Urszene 40 Whacks

Romano Scavolini’s 1981 slasher flick Nightmare is certain about three things: One, little George Tatum, well-mannered and pure, walked in on a dominatrix straddling his father and the experience irreparably destroyed his sanity. Two, despite his persisting fear of feminine wiles, George managed to have a son, C.J., who has…

Horror

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Georgie Tatum Took an Axe and Gave His Urszene 40 Whacks
Georgie Tatum Took an Axe and Gave His Urszene 40 Whacks
Horror

5 min read


Aug 13, 2020

On finally comprehending the allure of Annie Clark

While I have been repeatedly ensnared by “Chloe in the Afternoon” (the tenderest of hotel rendezvous anthems) and “Your Lips Are Red” (“Your lips are red / My face is red from reading your red lips”), it was not until the fitful static of April that I really began to…

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On finally comprehending the allure of Annie Clark
On finally comprehending the allure of Annie Clark

3 min read

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Sarah Fonseca

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Periodic diary-style musings on the arts, homosexual culture, & the outhouse poverty class. sarahfonseca.com.

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