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“X” Is a Slasher Film with an Important Message about Sex Work and Pornography

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by Laura LeMoon
April 11, 2022 at 5:43am
What the golden age of porn shows us is that good sex means breaking rules, not necessarily literal rules or laws that exist in our physical world, but rules or standards governing human conduct, morality, and ethics. 
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Graphic Design: The Uncomfortable History of Sex Onscreen

by Beatrice Loayza
April 1, 2022 at 12:44pm
Beatrice Loayza traces a history of sex in TV and movies, highlighting the important work of intimacy directors in the field today.  Read more »

Trading Faces: Our Body Swaps, Ourselves

by Rosa Cartagena
April 1, 2022 at 10:35am
A list of a few iconic body-swap movies from “Freaky Friday” to “Little.” Read more »

“Orlando” Is 30 Years Old, but It’s Still Groundbreaking in Its Transfemininity

by Natalie Marlin
March 31, 2022 at 12:19pm
While many films depicting the lives of trans folks do not stand the test of time, Sally Potter’s 1992 film does. Read more »
The poster for “Jackass: The Movie,” featuring (from left to right) Dave England, Bam Margera, Jason “Wee-Man” Acuña, Ryan Dunn, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, and Ehren McGhehey escaping an explosion in a shopping cart

“Jackass” Made Me the Trans Woman I Am

by Niko Stratis
February 4, 2022 at 11:37am
What Jackass has—what makes it “forever”—is genuine heart. Read more »
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What We Lose When Music Divas Become Movie Stars

by Ren Jender
January 21, 2022 at 2:00pm
 When pop stars turn to film, they’re at the whims of mostly male directors who squander their visionary talent. Read more »
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Her Prerogative: Britney Spears Can Do Whatever the Hell She Wants

by Lindsay Lee Wallace
January 14, 2022 at 10:57am
Fans’ calls to #UnfreeBritney were a sharp contrast to the rallying cries that flooded social media and the streets outside Spears’ conservatorship hearings. Read more »
A digital collage over a green background of Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun and HoYeon Jung as Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game, Tina Turner in Tina, Margaret Qualley as Alex and Rylea Nevaeh Whittet as Maddy in Maid.

13 Shows and Movies We Loved in 2021

by Bitch HQ
December 30, 2021 at 10:00am
From the unexpected buzz around Squid Game’s horrifying meditation on the problem of debt in South Korea to the catharsis of Mayday’s feminist revenge. Read more »
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The Movies That Made Cicely Tyson a National Treasure

by Evette Dionne
December 29, 2021 at 9:28am
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A digital collage of a thin, hunched young white man looking into the camera, a white woman with bold white and black hair and red lipstick smirking, and a Black woman with a white flower in her hair singing with her eyes closed.

9 Shows and Movies We Hated in 2021

by Bitch HQ
December 28, 2021 at 10:00am
These are some of the biggest disappointments we saw this year. Read more »
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Web of Cries: “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Opens up the Multiverse to Explore Grief

by Olivia Zayas Ryan
December 22, 2021 at 2:48pm
Spider-Man: No Way Home shows that—no matter what magic or powers you have—grief impacts us all. Read more »

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by Sarah Mirk
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by Andi Zeisler
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The female ghost is an enduringly fascinating figure. Read more »

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by Zetta Elliott
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