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high femme, not necessarily high brow. excess, culture, drama, filth.
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Leah Carlson
about 1 month ago
Honored to have been asked to contribute to
@hifemme.bsky.social
's beautifully ecclectic best of 2025 list
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high femme's best of 2025
"friends of high femme spent the last couple of weeks brainstorming and sharing their favorite art of the past year."
https://hi-femme.com/high-femmes-best-of-2025/
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Anne Hackaway
2 months ago
NEW PIECE ALERT! I wrote a long and loving tribute to Marleen Gorris for
@hifemme.bsky.social
and trust me when I say, you’ll want Gorris on your radar!
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Marleen Gorris on Survival Under Patriarchy
"Gorris [sledgehammers] our expectations in order to show us not just how the world is, but exactly what (or who) is making it that way."
https://hi-femme.com/marleen-gorris-on-survival-under-patriarchy/
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today on high femme, kelly pau writes AN ODE TO MONSTER COCKS
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"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
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'Slutever' Review
"Slutever’s sexual value system (hedonistic composure, autonomy, and acceptance of some social risk) has been a sacred reminder for me."
https://hi-femme.com/slutever-review/
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Julia Sirmons
7 months ago
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.
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"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
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'28 Years Later' Review
"With their return, Boyle and Garland make the most out of the larger canvas the years away gave them to work with."
https://hi-femme.com/28-years-later-review/
7 months ago
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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
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The Internet's "Shock" Therapy: On Sabrina, Lorde, and Bonnie
"I do not think that taking a sexually submissive photo leads to one experiencing spiritual decline."
https://hi-femme.com/the-internets-shock-therapy-on-sabrina-lorde-and-bonnie/
7 months ago
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high femme had the most amazing time at domcon! read our coverage!
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Big Red Sub: DomCon Dispatch #1
"Everyone knows each other, knows the culture, knows the wardrobe (sexy leather and latex), and I’m here like a hayseed in my stupid-ass light wash jeans."
https://hi-femme.com/big-red-sub-domcon-dispatch-1/
8 months ago
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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!
9 months ago
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alisha mughal
about 1 year ago
hey you can pre-order my book please pre-order my book
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It Can’t Rain All the Time: The Crow
Near the completion of filming The Crow, the star was killed in a shooting accident on set. Mughal argues against the criticism that the tragedy overshadows the quality of the film and shows readers t...
https://ecwpress.com/collections/pop-classics-series/products/it-cant-rain-all-the-time
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shaawan francis keahna (he/him)
10 months ago
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
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more for our femininity issue! shaawan francis keahna
@shaawan.com
on his sibling, his relationship with femininity, and dolly parton drag. read it!!!!
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Della, Dolly, Drag, and Me
"Disembodied, the girl in the mirror is no kind of girl at all, but a projection of a girl."
https://hi-femme.com/della-dolly-drag-and-me/
10 months ago
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more for our femininity issue! shaawan francis keahna
@shaawan.com
on his sibling, his relationship with femininity, and dolly parton drag. read it!!!!
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Della, Dolly, Drag, and Me
"Disembodied, the girl in the mirror is no kind of girl at all, but a projection of a girl."
https://hi-femme.com/della-dolly-drag-and-me/
10 months ago
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Roxane Llanque
10 months ago
I had the great pleasure to write about Wong Kar-wai's THE GRANDMASTER and the dogma of female perfection for
@hifemme.bsky.social
:)
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next in our femininity issue, roxane llanque
@roxanellanque.bsky.social
on wong kar-wai's THE GRANDMASTER and its central female character, gong er
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'The Grandmaster', A Woman's Winter, and the Damning Power of Stasis
"When she first appears in The Grandmaster, Gong Er arrives like a queen."
https://hi-femme.com/the-grandmaster-a-womans-winter-and-the-damning-power-of-stasis/
10 months ago
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our femininity issue continues with sarah on
@sgorr.bsky.social
on Joan Tewkesbury’s OLD BOYFRIENDS! read!
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'Old Boyfriends' is a celebration of female personhood
"Dianne’s on a road trip in reverse. She knows where the road ends, a marriage that failed, and she rejects it."
https://hi-femme.com/old-boyfriends-is-a-celebration-of-female-personhood/
10 months ago
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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.
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Hyper-femininity, Transaction and 'Showgirls' with Carlee Gomes
A conversation with Carlee Gomes
https://hi-femme.com/hyper-femininity-transaction-and-showgirls-with-carlee-gomes/
10 months ago
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Leah Carlson
about 1 year ago
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)
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from the High Femme archives! Veronica (
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
) on MAGIC MIKE XXL
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'Magic Mike XXL' Review
"In Magic Mike XXL, we are offered a glimpse of utopia."
https://hi-femme.com/magic-mike-xxl-review/
about 1 year ago
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from the High Femme archives! Veronica (
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
) reviews FATAL ATTRACTION
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'Fatal Attraction' Review
"For [Alex] to succeed in attaining Dan means systems like marriage, big houses, and the presumed “natural” progression in the narrative we have been offered over and over of a “proper” life, all beco...
https://hi-femme.com/fatal-attraction-review/
about 1 year ago
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from the High Femme archives! Veronica (
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
) reviews INDECENT PROPOSAL
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'Indecent Proposal' Review
"Indecent Proposal is clearly not a movie about sex work. If anything, it’s a movie about how we are all able to be bought."
https://hi-femme.com/indecent-proposal-review/
about 1 year ago
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from the High Femme archives! Veronica Phillips (
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
) wrote briefly on CHALLENGERS
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'Challengers' Review
This film isn't sexy like sex as much as it is sexy like an airbrushed magazine centerfold.
https://hi-femme.com/challengers/
about 1 year ago
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today from the High Femme archives! Soraya Sebghati (
@sorayaspaghetti.bsky.social
) on JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V.
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“Which Do You Want? Real or Phony?”: On Jane B. Par Agnès V.
"Helen of Troy might’ve had a face that launched a thousand ships, but Jane [Birkin] had a face that inspired the most expensive and sought-after designer handbag in the world."
https://hi-femme.com/which-do-you-want-real-or-phony-on-jane-b-par-agnes-v/
about 1 year ago
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from Leah Carlson-Downie (
@themingtacular.bsky.social
) a few months back: a wonderful read on LISA FRANKENSTEIN
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'Lisa Frankenstein' Review
"It’s rare for any teen paranormal romance to let its freak flag fly quite like this one does."
https://hi-femme.com/lisa-frankenstein-review/
about 1 year ago
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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.
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But I'm a Christian Camp Counselor
"But I’m a Cheerleader came to me in all its sugar-sweet, pastel-coated glory at exactly the moment I needed it."
https://hi-femme.com/but-im-a-christian-camp-counselor/
about 1 year ago
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from the High Femme archives! Veronica Phillips (
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
) wrote briefly on CHALLENGERS
hi-femme.com/challengers/
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'Challengers' Review
This film isn't sexy like sex as much as it is sexy like an airbrushed magazine centerfold.
https://hi-femme.com/challengers/
about 1 year ago
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Leah Carlson
about 1 year ago
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)
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Today on High Femme! Veronica Phillips
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
reviews the supremely charming queer documentary CHASING CHASING AMY
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'Chasing Chasing Amy' Review
"Chasing Chasing Amy is most moving when it's about making sense of the stories that allowed us to make sense of ourselves."
https://hi-femme.com/chasing-chasing-amy-review/
about 1 year ago
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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.
about 1 year ago
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we were so honored to work with you, Leah!
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about 1 year ago
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the fabulous Soraya Sebghati (
@sorayaspaghetti.bsky.social
) wrote on THE UNTAMED for us a few months back. give it a read!!!
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'The Untamed' Review
"Would you rather conform to a societal/cultural norm, or would you rather the true pleasure that comes with freedom?"
https://hi-femme.com/the-untamed-review/
about 1 year ago
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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!
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Notes on The Piano Teacher
"While Walter’s actions are a nonconsensual perverting of Erika’s daydreamy perversion, The Piano Teacher creates, in a sense, the “purest hit” of Erika’s fantasy."
https://hi-femme.com/notes-on-the-piano-teacher/
about 1 year ago
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today on high femme! veronica
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
on LAKE MUNGO.
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"Secret Keeper": On Uncanny Adolescence and Lake Mungo -
"Lake Mungo makes tangible one of the most isolating and harrowing discoveries of adulthood: you cannot be fully understood as you by anyone."
https://hi-femme.com/secret-keeper-on-uncanny-adolescence-and-lake-mungo/
about 1 year ago
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today on high femme! veronica
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
on LAKE MUNGO.
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"Secret Keeper": On Uncanny Adolescence and Lake Mungo -
"Lake Mungo makes tangible one of the most isolating and harrowing discoveries of adulthood: you cannot be fully understood as you by anyone."
https://hi-femme.com/secret-keeper-on-uncanny-adolescence-and-lake-mungo/
about 1 year ago
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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
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How Far You Can Go: The Stretch Of Love Lies Bleeding
"This idea of a stretch is a sexy, squirmy breadcrumb that can be followed spiritually throughout the rest of Love Lies Bleeding."
https://hi-femme.com/how-far-you-can-go-the-stretch-of-love-lies-bleeding/
about 1 year ago
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today on high femme! veronica (
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
) reviews SWEETHEART DEAL
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'Sweetheart Deal' Review
"At moments, Sweetheart Deal allows us into such deeply vulnerable moments that I fear an almost exploitative flavor. Is this, though, my own bias?"
https://hi-femme.com/sweetheart-deal-review/
about 1 year ago
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Leah Carlson
about 1 year ago
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Leah Carlson
about 1 year ago
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
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'Blink Twice' Review -
Kravitz is too jaded to commit to conventional moral outrage but too defensive of her own position to create anything genuinely subversive
https://hi-femme.com/blink-twice-review/
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today on high femme! Leah Carlson-Downie (
@themingtacular.bsky.social
) reviews BLINK TWICE.
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'Blink Twice' Review -
Kravitz is too jaded to commit to conventional moral outrage but too defensive of her own position to create anything genuinely subversive
https://hi-femme.com/blink-twice-review/
about 1 year ago
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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!
about 1 year ago
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today on high femme, a review of Sean Baker's ANORA by
@veronicaphillips.bsky.social
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TIFF '24 'Anora' Review
Ani is hustling until she’s suddenly seemingly swept up by Vanya in all earnestness, with little signal as to why or how.
https://hi-femme.com/tiff-24-anora-review/
about 1 year ago
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we just added a linktree to our bio, where all of this is also available, but if you're inclined to keep up with, regularly read, or maybe even write for high femme you can also follow us on: substack:
substack.com/@hifemmes
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HighFemme | Substack
high femme. not necessarily high brow. excess, culture, drama, filth
https://substack.com/@hifemmes
about 1 year ago
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Leah Carlson
about 1 year ago
Oh, hey, high femme's over here now, and it would be so hot if you hit that follow button
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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!
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TIFF '24 "Bird" Review
Bird is a reminder that to daydream out in the fields isn’t frivolous.
https://hi-femme.com/tiff-24-bird-review/
about 1 year ago
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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.
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