“I think the New York novel is done—we’ve had enough of those,” Grace Byron (@emotrophywife) tells @emmelc in CULTURED’s September issue. It’s fitting, then, that the critic’s forthcoming novel ‘Herculine’ follows a flailing freelancer flees the city for a commune in rural Indiana, where supernatural spirits prey on young trans women. “It’s like,... See more
cultured_maginstagram.comi am in my hysterical 20th-century woman era , i would think, unlikeably. i am sleeping at erratic hours, i am sobbing, i am writing and never publishing, i am seeing shapes in my wallpaper. i am never washing my face, i am eating lavishly, i am ruining my reputation. i am making sure to eat a square of dark chocolate during my depressive episodes... See more
rayne fisher-quann • standing on the shoulders of complex female characters
Bugonia proposes that if you want to convince a godlike alien that humanity deserves extinction, you wouldn’t show her our wars or prisons or famines. You would make her live as a beautiful, highly successful woman. The ultimate horror of this film isn’t just an alien deciding to end all human life on Earth, but that her reasoning makes a terrible... See more