New My Favorite F***ing Movie is out! I originally wrote this essay for Daily Grindhouse when X first came out. I think this is such a special movie & I really love what I wrote about it, so I’m happy to be giving it a second life as part of this series. Likes/shares/subscribes very appreciated 🖤

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning. Thank you, Miss Major.

How it’s going: open.substack.com/pub/myfavori...

Happy first day of the fall semester, lads. youtu.be/DeoWhvsyOZ8?...

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

Going to be sending out our (long-delayed) first newsletter in a couple of hours, if anyone would like to still sign up — will contain some catalog updates and teases for what’s coming up next! Subscribe here: muscle-distribution.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

We’re thrilled to say that our new digital restoration of Doris Wishman’s last-completed feature, DILDO HEAVEN (aka DESPERATE DESIRES, 2002), will be having its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin next month.

Kanopy rules www.polygon.com/charlie-kauf...

I wrote about my beloved SHOWGIRLS for my reader's choice series. It's sort of funny that this is the longest essay I've written in a little bit, and it feels like I barely scratched the surface. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

pleased to report the apricots are just as iconic as i needed them to be this summer (ft a diy filter of a sunscreen & sweat)

🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival

Whoever blasted Skeeter Davis' End of the World at the pool the other day really knew what to give the Girl, Interrupted fans what they wanted.

the cherry trees are poppin' off this year fyi! and the apricot trees better, too. or else 😤😤

It's that time of year again when my routes around the city are pre-determined by the location of different neighbood fruit trees

Happy Pride to Rosemary’s baby who’s due date was the 28th of June, 1966 (06/66) It’s also the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which took place just a few years following the birth of the antichrist. It's no surprise that we’ve always had Satan on our side 👹🌈

Happy birthday to Kathy Bates, who made a sledgehammer scene Oscar-worthy 🔨✨

If you read/liked this stunning piece on 28 Days Later, a reminder that hot @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social who wrote this co-authored an essential book on Sleepaway Camp with her equally hot wife @bjcolangelo.bsky.social, its just hotness all the way down with these fucken two 💜

I'm slowly pulling together a book of essays about how horror movies portray the media, this article is part of that. ko-fi.com/post/Notes-O...

WELCOME CANCER SEASON! CARE MORE! FEEL IT ALL! MOODY! DEFENSIVE! NEEDINESS AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! INSTEAD OF BILLIONAIRES WE COULD HAVE HOUSING! AND HEALTHCARE! AND CHILDCARE! AND FOOD FOR ALL! EMO AS AN EXTREME SPORT! ABOLISH ICE! FREE THEM ALL! ARMS EMBARGO! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER!

Since May 1st I've printed, assembled, and mostly distributed over 700 copies of my booklet "Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?" This coming week I plan to make something new but you can still get these for $3.00 (or $2.00 if you buy 10 or more) from: halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...

Our June series FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE: A TRANS CINEMA CELEBRATION starts Tuesday with Ed Wood's GLEN OR GLENDA on 35mm at Nitehawk Williamsburg.

did some illustrations for this piece!

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve picked up North American rights for @weard.moe’s epic-in-the-making CASTRATION MOVIE — and — it’ll be having its U.S. festival premiere at Frameline next month. More info: www.muscle-distribution.com/films/castra...

I wrote about UNDER THE SKIN, and Jonathan Glazer for my reader's choice series. This is a special movie for my own personal canon. www.patreon.com/posts/129041...

No Cop City, No Cop World is officially out today :) it was a massive collective effort, not to give a definitive account of a movement that could never be fully captured in a book, but to document tactics tried, lessons learned, & successes & failures. Order supports @workshops4gaza.bsky.social:

the real rites of Spring is hearing The Offspring blasted out some car's window for 20 years in a row

For the 30th anniversary of Exotica, I interviewed director Atom Egoyan about collective grief, rituals that harm and heal, notes that would have ruined the movie, and the struggle to remain a distinctive voice. Read it on @letterboxd.social here: boxd.it/2ts

absolutely vile

my god

Some big / scary / exciting news… I’m launching my own film distribution company. It’s called @muscledistribution.bsky.social and will be handling a wide range of titles with a heavy repertory focus. The announcement is over at Indiewire: www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

being openly gay

"ANITA BRYANT HAS BLOOD ON HER HANDS," After Stonewall, Winnipeg, Canada. Issue 2, 1977.

highly recommend getting the wayback machine extension as well. helps preserve the web as you browse! addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

So sad to hear about the passing of the incomparable Linda Williams! wtf 2025! Williams was, and will forever be, such a foundational feminist theorist in porn & horror studies 💔💔

RIP Linda Williams. we've lost an intellectual giant whose debts to film studies & pornography studies can never be repaid. i'm grateful that she got her flowers before she passed, with a symposium & special issue honouring her work in recent years. long may her writing be taught in our classrooms.

Teaching @oliviastowell.bsky.social's fantastic "Against the Female Gaze" piece in my Queer Media course w/ Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire! Anyone also teaching Mulvey's piece, or thinking about scopophilia/"the gaze" should def do this too! It's so teachable! mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/a...

ICYMI: My Favorite F***ing Movie for February is posted! The film is Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and the subject is everlasting love. This is the first thing I’ve written about my mom since she died. Shares & clicks are very appreciated 💛 Read it: myfavoritefnmovie.substack.com/p/tell-me-no...

as the ground seethes & thaws, I’ve been dreaming of meat cake, Dame Darcy's bubblegum gore core 90s gothic femme comic book-zines. Summoning spring a week early with meat cake’s freaky frills & chills. (assorted covers of meat cake, 1993-2008)

It's Bandcamp Friday! Today we are raising funds for the @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Fund. We have a very special, limited edition shirt that will ONLY be available today: bikinikill.bandcamp.com

YESS

It’s my birthday month! Please buy the book I co-wrote with @willowcatelyn.bsky.social that published last year. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695...

Reading Dorothy Allison for the first time since her death and the loss just hits at a different register when encountering her again through her work.

Coming up in a few weeks at @whammyanalog.bsky.social as part of our big EZTV series — includes two pioneering dyke porn shorts from On Our Backs magazine founder Nan Kinney and Debi Sundahl’s Fatale Video plus more… www.whammyanalog.com/events/eztv-...

I wrote about the great silent horror film AFTER DEATH for my ongoing horror series. You can watch this film on youtube. www.patreon.com/posts/123547...

finally scratched @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social's satranic panic (2023) off my watchlist 🏳️‍🌈🔪 i recommend this to anyone looking for queer + trans indie horror. check it out on @shudder.com

this was SO much fun to put together. it’s a mixture of films you probably know and some deep cut gems that you should!!

Wait, no. I'm finally watching Anora and why would Sean Baker ever attempt that opening scene knowing full well Dee Rees perfected it with Pariah? Khia supremacy!