- 1. Sundance 2023: Women Directors Tackle Themes of Frankenstein, Introverts and Little Richard
- (Movies)
- ... horror classic, questioning the consequences of playing God and manipulating nature. Placenta harvesting has never been so stressful. Sometimes I think About Dying Set in a sleepy northwest costal ...
- Created on 21 January 2023
- 2. “Y’allternative”: Goth Meets Cowboy in This Trendy Aesthetic With a Rich History
- (Style)
- ... Old Western sensibilities. Envision an otherwise Wednesday Addams-esque outfit accessorized with a cowboy hat and boots, a bolo tie, and the sort of belt typically worn with a pair of classic Wranglers. ...
- Created on 17 January 2023
- 3. People on the Internet are Finally Talking About How Painful IUD Insertion Can Be
- (Living)
- ... Midwestern small talk with my doctor, but the cramping I experienced afterward left me curled up in my bed whimpering for the rest of the day. I was humbled, to say the least. It’s been over two years ...
- Created on 06 January 2023
- 4. 8 Best Horror Movies of 2022 Featuring Women to Watch (or Rewatch) at Your Next Movie Night
- (Movies)
- ... in both X and Pearl. Filmmaker Ti West has created an original horror cinematic universe with Goth at the helm. X is set in 1979 and follows a group of young people using an elderly couple’s rural farm ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 5. 7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
- (Movies)
- ... her build her all-girl punk band. They find 15-year-old Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) to sing and be the face of the band, and with two other girls, Stella Maeve as Sandy West and Scout Taylor-Compton ...
- Created on 30 November 2022
- 6. Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
- (TV)
- ... boundaries of the 1940s American Mid-West. I eagerly settled into the series, anticipating the smug gratitude that comes with the distance of modernity. But Abbi Jacobson's reimagined series left me feeling ...
- Created on 13 October 2022
- 7. Lizzo Plays a 200-Year-Old Flute...And Racists Freak Out
- (Music)
- ... would call it a beautiful embrace of "our proud Western heritage." My column is an eye-roll:https://t.co/Zm7Ocv7qy6 — Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) September 29, 2022 The people mad about Lizzo playing ...
- Created on 30 September 2022
- 8. “To Deny Your Inner Nerd Is To Deny Happiness." Actor Sam Richardson On Imposter Syndrome And His New Role In "Hocus Pocus 2
- (TV)
- ... channels available to him in West Africa in the early ’90s. “When I lived in Ghana, my dad would come back and forth while my mom and I were there. He would send me VHS tapes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ...
- Created on 22 August 2022
- 9. Before Nirvana And Soundgarden, A Young Black Performer Named Tina Bell Was Making Grunge Rock But You Have Probably Never Heard Of Her.
- (Music)
- ... shaped by the opinions of the white gaze. I think wading through the Northwest weighed heavily on Tina.” Bell and Martin’s son, T.J. Martin—now an Oscar and Emmy award-winning filmmaker—also recalls ...
- Created on 10 August 2022
- 10. From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
- (Entertainment)
- ... the City writer Jenny Bicks. The documentary-style show follows the quirky residents of the fictional Midwestern town of Flatch. Hill is one such resident—a local magic shop owner who peddles vapes on ...
- Created on 16 June 2022
- 11. Mass School Shootings and "Stranger Things": A Look at America's Obsession With Violence in Tv and Film and It's Effect On All Of ...
- (Entertainment)
- ... that we consume. From Tarantino’s Spaghetti Westerns that Roxane Gay once described as “farcically violent,” to the graphic Korean show Squid Games, which became an American obsession overnight. There ...
- Created on 14 June 2022
- 12. Carnations, Meat Hash, and ”Watching Your Mother’s Face”: 9 Mother’s Day Celebrations From Around the World
- (Feminism)
- ... western ways of celebrating Mother's Day with flowers, cards, chocolate and quality time aren’t wrong, here's a list of different ways that mothers are celebrated around the world. You never know—you might ...
- Created on 06 May 2022
- 13. Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
- (Music)
- ... through her own share of loss, even though she is a generation younger. Prior to being discovered, of course, she spent some time living out of her car on the West coast. More recently, she was divorced ...
- Created on 02 May 2022
- 14. The Secret History of Women and Mushrooms: A Centuries-Old Tale of Empowerment, Enlightenment, Education, and Magic
- (Eat Me)
- ... to accept the foreigners into her sacred healing ceremonies, and Gordon Wasson became one of the first Westerners to participate in such a ceremony. The couple gathered spores while there, which were brought ...
- Created on 28 April 2022
- 15. Annie Murphy On The Importance of Imperfect Female Characters, Life After Alexis, And Her Top-Secret Role On Season 2 of Russian Doll
- (Entertainment)
- ... over a cult once led by her estranged father. “I’ve also written a movie with David West Read and Rupinder Gill [called Witness Protection],” she reveals. “It’s about a woman who is a dating chameleon, ...
- Created on 14 April 2022
- 16. Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
- (Entertainment)
- ... since the hit Showtime series came out. Lynskey quote-tweeted author Ashley C. Ford's (now deleted) tweet–which originally read: “It’s wild how confused people in the Midwest seem to be that I’m not ...
- Created on 14 March 2022
- 17. Janelle Monae's "The Memory Librarian" Tackles Afrofuturism, Plus a Deep Dive Into Witchcraft, and a Memoir From an Indigenous Pu
- (Books)
- ... writer from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes, in her “ancestral autobiography,” Red Paint. The Pacific-Northwest native’s story is one of survival, having first endured sexual abuse at a young ...
- Created on 10 March 2022
- 18. The Trailer For "The First Lady," A Film About Trailblazing First Ladies of America, Starring Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Has Droppe
- (TV)
- ... Gillian Anderson!!!! “The First Lady” is gonna be AMAZING. pic.twitter.com/D98CiV5DeG — Lynx 💛 (@LustrousLynx) February 20, 2022 From Martin Sheen on The West Wing to Harrison Ford in Air ...
- Created on 22 February 2022
- 19. K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
- (TV)
- ... of a 19thcentury freakshow, in which she was objectified and prodded because of it. She was also the inspiration behind Kim Kardashian West’s infamous Paper Magazine shoot. The controversial shoot ,which ...
- Created on 18 February 2022
- 20. Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
- (Arts)
- ... fairies at the beck. As later reported by The Westminster Gazette in 1921, her parents considered this “a childish fancy, and let it pass.” So it wasn’t surprising that, while the grownups remained skeptical ...
- Created on 16 December 2021
