Madwomen & Muses is a newsletter about cinema and culture written by a Black woman from the South. This is for the lovers, the yearners, and the mad.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 44 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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The Feminine Grotesque No.4: Perfect Blue (1997)
In this personal essay about my experiences with sexual assault and emotional abusive, I discuss how Satoshi Kon's anime film gave me a PTSD flashback that was a wake-up call.
The Feminine Grotesque is an occasional column about female mad...
Movies That Fuck No.2: Wong Kar-wai's "The Hand" (2004)
Only Wong Kar-wai could make such a tender and romantic film about the power of a great handjob.
Movies That Fuck is an occasional column about the body, desire, and sensuality in cinema and modern life. You can read the introduction post...
Weekly Log No.2: What I've Been Reading, Watching, and Listening To
I finally watched Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2004), after not seeing the original incarnation of the story in many years.
Today has been an emotional day. But despite the frustrations, to put it mildly, I am galvanized by a confi...
Open Your Fucking Heart: Why I Loved Disclosure Day, A Review and Rant in 17 Notes
Emily Blunt and her yearning eyes as newscaster Margaret Fairchild in Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day.
1. When I first saw Steven Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day, at a press screening at the beginning of June, I joked to two cl...
The Feminine Grotesque No.3: There Is So Much More to the Millennial Madwoman Than This
I discuss Die My Love (2025) in order to explore my frustration with the narrow portrayals of female madness and women's lives as they enter their late thirties in modern American pop culture.
- As I enter my late thirties, I have become...
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Critic, writer, and essayist focusing on film/pop culture, amongst other wild obsessions. On staff at New York Magazine. Living full tilt toward pleasure. Sensualist. A gentlewoman from the South.✨\ud83d\udc95
an optimist passionate about Black film.
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