"Slutever’s sexual value system (hedonistic composure, autonomy, and acceptance of some social risk) has been a sacred reminder for me." - veronica phillips (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) on karley sciortino's book, SLUTEVER hi-femme.com/slutever-rev...

If you're not subscribed to @hifemme.bsky.social 's piercingly intelligent, vivid conversation about Showgirls with @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social. It crackles; makes me want to watch the movie again pronto.

"With their return, Boyle and Garland make the most out of the larger canvas the years away gave them to work with." read skyler hanrath on 28 YEARS LATER hi-femme.com/28-years-lat...

veronica wrote on the boring, repetitive, conservative “shock” discourses that keep cropping up around the very well-precedented antics of porn stars and pop stars hi-femme.com/the-internet...

high femme had the most amazing time at domcon! read our coverage! hi-femme.com/big-red-sub-...

HAPPY PRIDE! we hope to give you queer criticism and writing year-round, but we have some especially fun and freaky stuff lined up for june! this week, @veronicaphillips.bsky.social will be covering her first ever DOM CON LA !!! subscribe to our substack (linked below!) to keep up to date!

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i wrote about the trans masc “i’m not transitioning to be a man, i’m transitioning to be a pretty boy” phenomenon, my realization that i do NOT want to be a pretty boy, and dolly parton

more for our femininity issue! shaawan francis keahna @shaawan.com on his sibling, his relationship with femininity, and dolly parton drag. read it!!!! hi-femme.com/della-dolly-...

more for our femininity issue! shaawan francis keahna @shaawan.com on his sibling, his relationship with femininity, and dolly parton drag. read it!!!! hi-femme.com/della-dolly-...

I had the great pleasure to write about Wong Kar-wai's THE GRANDMASTER and the dogma of female perfection for @hifemme.bsky.social :)

next in our femininity issue, roxane llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social on wong kar-wai's THE GRANDMASTER and its central female character, gong er hi-femme.com/the-grandmas...

our femininity issue continues with sarah on @sgorr.bsky.social on Joan Tewkesbury’s OLD BOYFRIENDS! read! hi-femme.com/old-boyfrien...

high femme’s femininity issue began on monday! read our conversation between veronica and the fabulous carlee @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social on hyperfemininity, transaction, and paul verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS. hi-femme.com/hyper-femini...

Me, for @hifemme.bsky.social's Best of 2024 newsletter. (If you're in a punch-a-Nazi kind of mood today and want to wallow in it while respectfully ogling Dev Patel. I have to add a big ol' content warning for sexual violence, though. Skip the trauma flashback if you need to)

from the High Femme archives! Veronica (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) on MAGIC MIKE XXL hi-femme.com/magic-mike-x...

from the High Femme archives! Veronica (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) reviews FATAL ATTRACTION hi-femme.com/fatal-attrac...

from the High Femme archives! Veronica (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) reviews INDECENT PROPOSAL hi-femme.com/indecent-pro...

from the High Femme archives! Veronica Phillips (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) wrote briefly on CHALLENGERS hi-femme.com/challengers/

today from the High Femme archives! Soraya Sebghati (@sorayaspaghetti.bsky.social) on JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V. hi-femme.com/which-do-you...

from Leah Carlson-Downie (@themingtacular.bsky.social) a few months back: a wonderful read on LISA FRANKENSTEIN hi-femme.com/lisa-franken...

from the High Femme archives! Sam Goodyear (@sammygoodz.bsky.social) writes on BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER and their own time spent as a Christian camp counselor as a queer teen. hi-femme.com/but-im-a-chr...

from the High Femme archives! Veronica Phillips (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) wrote briefly on CHALLENGERS hi-femme.com/challengers/

My horoscope this week told me to experiment with being naughty and to seek out "wildler, wetter, and more interesting problems" in the coming months, which sounds like a High Femme mandate. So cheers to more (and the honor is mutual)

Today on High Femme! Veronica Phillips @veronicaphillips.bsky.social reviews the supremely charming queer documentary CHASING CHASING AMY hi-femme.com/chasing-chas...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM HIGH FEMME! our wish for you is for you to care for yourselves, care for others, and make pleasure a centerpiece of your year.

we were so honored to work with you, Leah!

the fabulous Soraya Sebghati (@sorayaspaghetti.bsky.social) wrote on THE UNTAMED for us a few months back. give it a read!!! hi-femme.com/the-untamed-...

one of high femme's earlier capsule reviews: Notes on The Piano Teacher! read it! start stretching those sadomasochistic critical thinking brains in preparation for BABYGIRL! hi-femme.com/notes-on-the...

today on high femme! veronica @veronicaphillips.bsky.social on LAKE MUNGO. hi-femme.com/secret-keepe...

today on high femme! veronica @veronicaphillips.bsky.social on LAKE MUNGO. hi-femme.com/secret-keepe...

we'd like to share some of our pieces written for high femme's original launch in september to the bluesky crowd! here's our first ever piece published; an essay on the bathroom sink sex in LOVE LIES BLEEDING by @veronicaphillips.bsky.social hi-femme.com/how-far-you-...

today on high femme! veronica (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) reviews SWEETHEART DEAL hi-femme.com/sweetheart-d...

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For the morning crowd: I reviewed Blink Twice for @hifemme.bsky.social I was pretty mixed on this one, but Channing Tatum proves once again he's one of the more interesting stars working hi-femme.com/blink-twice-...

Leah's words are good words; you should read them

today on high femme! Leah Carlson-Downie (@themingtacular.bsky.social) reviews BLINK TWICE. hi-femme.com/blink-twice-...

culture writers! high femme is CALLING FOR PITCHES for our first themed issue! head on over to substack.com/@hifemmes to subscribe and find more info!

today on high femme, a review of Sean Baker's ANORA by @veronicaphillips.bsky.social hi-femme.com/tiff-24-anor...

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from way back at TIFF, veronica phillips (@veronicaphillips) wrote on Andrea Arnold's daydreamy BIRD. review now live over at High Femme! hi-femme.com/tiff-24-bird...

hi! we're high femme! we're a new indie culture publication, and we're so excited to begin curating a space for cultural criticism specifically through the lens of sexuality and gender. we're interested in what's honest and earnestly felt, what's sexy, gritty, big, and important to us.