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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 06/10/2026

i bought a sleeve of them like buying a carton of king sized cigarettes in the 90s

A sleeve of coffee crisp snack sized chocolate bars in front of a coffee mug that says I don’t work here on it

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Spring is here, and nature is aliiiiive! Ecohorror is the subject of the latest Somatechnics, incl. an #openaccess essay on the queer conflagrations in SAINT MAUD and DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL from @lezzie-borden.bsky.social. @cnwilson.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/toc/soma/16/1

On the left, the cover of the latest issue of journal Somatechnics with a large close-up photo of a veiny, brown, crumbling leaf.

On the right, a poster for the 1971 film DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL showing two pre-teen girls standing in front of roaring flames.

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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes it's hard to choose a writer for a story; sometimes you literally know someone whose social media handle is @lezzie-borden.bsky.social

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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Very excited that my first narrative film is not only premiering on @shudder.com tomorrow, but that it's also getting so many screenings!! Being a 30-minute film I didn't expect it to get any theatrical play, so the fact that all these venues programmed it to support features is a huge deal to me.🖤

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 29/10/2025

"We recognized something queer about the film’s brand of teen girl defiance and anger," writes @lezzie-borden.bsky.social about watching 'The Craft' as a teen.

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The strange queer powers of ‘The Craft’ | Xtra Magazine

How a coven of magical teen misfits sparked my ’90s coming out story

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning. Thank you, Miss Major.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

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Muscle Distribution @muscledistribution.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Going to be sending out our (long-delayed) first newsletter in a couple of hours, if anyone would like to still sign up — will contain some catalog updates and teases for what’s coming up next! Subscribe here: muscle-distribution.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

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Muscle Distribution @muscledistribution.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We’re thrilled to say that our new digital restoration of Doris Wishman’s last-completed feature, DILDO HEAVEN (aka DESPERATE DESIRES, 2002), will be having its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin next month.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I wrote about my beloved SHOWGIRLS for my reader's choice series. It's sort of funny that this is the longest essay I've written in a little bit, and it feels like I barely scratched the surface. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

The world was still very cruel to Showgirls when I became serious about movies in the early years of the 21st century. It had a reputation like Citizen Kane, but on the opposite end of distinctions about quality, and it still remains very difficult to engage with the picture beyond its reputation as an object of scorn, or, more recently, one of rehabilitation and rescue. Call it the last great cult object, the Moby Dick of bad taste, or the masterpiece of shit. The shadow of Showgirls’s history is so enormous that it seems nearly impossible to find any new revelations about the picture on the critical front, and one must look into the specificity of a personal reaction in order to contend with what it has to offer. Many critics before me have made good arguments that it doesn’t suck, or that it’s about mirrors, or All About Eve, or a critical text within the explicit carnival creepshow of Paul Verhoeven’s America. What seems doable to me as a critic and a viewer is to be completely honest about my fascination with the picture, and how I remain charmed by Nomi Malone, and by extension Elizabeth Berkley’s performance. She goes way out there, further than actors usually do, and paid mightily in the public sphere, and within the industry for the risks she took, but it’s a performance that I love. Its closest contemporary is Isabella Adjani in Possession, another performance that audiences routinely laugh at, and with, and I have such affection for actors who go beyond reason to show us whoever it is that they are playing.

a still from SHOWGIRLS of Elizabeth Berkley in close-up as Nomi Malone

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

pleased to report the apricots are just as iconic as i needed them to be this summer (ft a diy filter of a sunscreen & sweat)

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 15/07/2025

🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival

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1000 Women in Horror

From the silent era until today, the nightmares that have haunted our screen have been sculpted and embodied by women, but many of those artists have gone....

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Whoever blasted Skeeter Davis' End of the World at the pool the other day really knew what to give the Girl, Interrupted fans what they wanted.

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

the cherry trees are poppin' off this year fyi! and the apricot trees better, too. or else 😤😤

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It's that time of year again when my routes around the city are pre-determined by the location of different neighbood fruit trees

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Happy Pride to Rosemary’s baby who’s due date was the 28th of June, 1966 (06/66) It’s also the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which took place just a few years following the birth of the antichrist. It's no surprise that we’ve always had Satan on our side 👹🌈

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 28/06/2025

Happy birthday to Kathy Bates, who made a sledgehammer scene Oscar-worthy 🔨✨

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 25/06/2025

If you read/liked this stunning piece on 28 Days Later, a reminder that hot @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social who wrote this co-authored an essential book on Sleepaway Camp with her equally hot wife @bjcolangelo.bsky.social, its just hotness all the way down with these fucken two 💜

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Sleepaway Camp by BJ and Harmony Colangelo

The Wives Colangelo assess where the 1983 cult hit Sleepaway Camp falls in the slasher canon and do a deep dive on the film's queer themes and legacy that have kept audiences talking after all these y...

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I'm slowly pulling together a book of essays about how horror movies portray the media, this article is part of that. ko-fi.com/post/Notes-O...

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Notes On The Howling's Werewolf Jonestown by Sara Century

Sara Century published a post on Ko-fi

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Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

WELCOME CANCER SEASON! CARE MORE! FEEL IT ALL! MOODY! DEFENSIVE! NEEDINESS AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! INSTEAD OF BILLIONAIRES WE COULD HAVE HOUSING! AND HEALTHCARE! AND CHILDCARE! AND FOOD FOR ALL! EMO AS AN EXTREME SPORT! ABOLISH ICE! FREE THEM ALL! ARMS EMBARGO! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER!

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Since May 1st I've printed, assembled, and mostly distributed over 700 copies of my booklet "Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?" This coming week I plan to make something new but you can still get these for $3.00 (or $2.00 if you buy 10 or more) from: halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...

An assembly line of "Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?" booklet covers (which are rubber stamped, dated, and initialed on the cover by me.)

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Nitehawk Cinema @nitehawkcinema.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Our June series FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE: A TRANS CINEMA CELEBRATION starts Tuesday with Ed Wood's GLEN OR GLENDA on 35mm at Nitehawk Williamsburg.

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

did some illustrations for this piece!

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Muscle Distribution @muscledistribution.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve picked up North American rights for @weard.moe’s epic-in-the-making CASTRATION MOVIE — and — it’ll be having its U.S. festival premiere at Frameline next month. More info: www.muscle-distribution.com/films/castra...

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I wrote about UNDER THE SKIN, and Jonathan Glazer for my reader's choice series. This is a special movie for my own personal canon. www.patreon.com/posts/129041...

Jonathan Glazer’s visual style comes into focus on the “Karma Police” music video that he directed for Radiohead. In that video, a camera was placed behind the driver’s seat as a car lurched forward on an abandoned road, during the darkest hours of the night, with the headlights carving up midnight in pursuit of someone or something. The car moves along for quite a while until there’s a glimmering mothlight gleaming ahead steadily transforming into the shape of a man. Glazer is captivated by the shape of blank spaces, and he’s very sure about images that lack clear definition. At heart, he’s best suited for the avant-garde, but he began in commercials and music videos, and he’s never completely abandoned the populism of the forms where he began. This has resulted in him straddling both the art world and the mainstream cinema to the surreal effect of having his experimental film about the Jewish concentration camp at Auschwitz, The Zone of Interest, being available at the multiplex at the same time as superhero movies and Disney animations. In addition to having obvious avant-garde sensibilities, he is also beholden to horror filmmaking, without being a director who cherishes the genre, or has much interest in what that visual language might entail. He’s closer to Michael Haneke or Stanley Kubrick than he is John Carpenter or Dario Argento, and the effect of his unfaithful adaptation of Michael Faber’s “Under the Skin” had a profound effect on the genre moving forward. It was the first a24 horror film, and beckoned an era where the expressive qualities of horror became internalized through the traumatic emotions of characters, rather than the external properties of gore, violence and death. Under the Skin remains the high-watermark for this type of horror film from this era.

a still frame from UNDER THE SKIN of a silhouette of a woman pulling stockings up her legs

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

the real rites of Spring is hearing The Offspring blasted out some car's window for 20 years in a row

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Liz @schlockvalue.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Some big / scary / exciting news… I’m launching my own film distribution company. It’s called @muscledistribution.bsky.social and will be handling a wide range of titles with a heavy repertory focus. The announcement is over at Indiewire: www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

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Aussie Cult Indie ‘Going Down’ Gets 4K Restoration at BAM from New Venture Muscle Distribution

'Going Down,' the 1983 cult indie film from Australia and director Haydn Keenan, has been restored in 4K and will make its US premiere at BAM in NYC.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 14/03/2025

being openly gay

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LGBTQ History @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

"ANITA BRYANT HAS BLOOD ON HER HANDS," After Stonewall, Winnipeg, Canada. Issue 2, 1977.

ANITA BRYANT HAS BLOOD ON HER HANDS -

You may wonder why a prairie publication should concern itself with Miami gays. I hate to use the domino theory, but in case of the Miami struggle, this theory is applicable. Bryant has vowed to make this a national issue, challenging, pro-gay rights politicians in Congress. If her forces win the Miami referendum, it will provide the fuel for attacking any city ordinance protecting gays acrossthe U.S. Knowing politicians
to be weak-kneed wishy-washy liberals, they would give in to waves of homophobia in their respective cities. Canada has a few lukewarm ordinances protecting gay city employees: e.g. Windsor, Toronto and Ottawa. If the tidal wave of homophobia is successful in the U.S., it certainly could happen here. All it takes is one homophobic Canadian, rallying support behind the guise of Christianity. We can't be complacent and feel secure in Canada. Yes, we can help our sisters and brothers in Miami. On the smallest scale you can simply boycott Florida orange juice.
Or you could write a letter of protest to the Florida Citrus Growers. Their address is:
Florida Citrus Commission
Box 148
Lakeland, Florida 33802

And last but very important you could contribute funds to the Dade County Coalition. Whatever you can spare would be greatly appreciated. Their address is:
Dade County Coalition
Box 33-414
Miani, Florida 33133

Remember this isn’t just a Miami battle. It’s our battle as gay men and women. Let’s work to return Anita Bryant to the relative obscurity she once enjoyed.

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

So sad to hear about the passing of the incomparable Linda Williams! wtf 2025! Williams was, and will forever be, such a foundational feminist theorist in porn & horror studies 💔💔

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

RIP Linda Williams. we've lost an intellectual giant whose debts to film studies & pornography studies can never be repaid. i'm grateful that she got her flowers before she passed, with a symposium & special issue honouring her work in recent years. long may her writing be taught in our classrooms.

a young woman (Susan Kohner) clutches a casket adorned with flowers, crying. from Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life (1959)

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Teaching @oliviastowell.bsky.social's fantastic "Against the Female Gaze" piece in my Queer Media course w/ Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire! Anyone also teaching Mulvey's piece, or thinking about scopophilia/"the gaze" should def do this too! It's so teachable! mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/a...

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Against the Female Gaze

To my mind, what we need is not a “female” gaze, but a feminist one. I have a confession: I’m getting sick of all the cultural conversation about “girlhood.” Perhaps this is a bad position fo…

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

as the ground seethes & thaws, I’ve been dreaming of meat cake, Dame Darcy's bubblegum gore core 90s gothic femme comic book-zines. Summoning spring a week early with meat cake’s freaky frills & chills. (assorted covers of meat cake, 1993-2008)

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Bikini Kill @theebikinikill.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It's Bandcamp Friday! Today we are raising funds for the @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Fund. We have a very special, limited edition shirt that will ONLY be available today: bikinikill.bandcamp.com

Azalea pink shirt with Bikini Kill written in turquoise and white alternating letters.

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alex hall @lezzie-borden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Reading Dorothy Allison for the first time since her death and the loss just hits at a different register when encountering her again through her work.

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