Lizzie (2018) Review: The Silence and Ruinous Love of Two Women Split by the Axe of Oppression
Within the confines of suffocating insularity and patriarchal violence, the energy generated when isolated souls recognize one another sometimes accompanies a tragic explosion. The film Lizzie (2018) reinterprets the aftermath of the brutal…
JT LeRoy: A Mask Forged of Desire and the Liberation of the Other, That Strange Solidarity
Is it art, or is it a scam, to craft a glittering crown using someone’s deepest wounds as the material? We often willingly erase our own faces to become the versions of ourselves…
Love Lies Bleeding (2024): A Radical Liberation of Violent Desire Written in Blood and Muscle
Love is sometimes closer to toxicity than romance. To want someone intensely is akin to a dangerous contract—an agreement to ingest that person’s deficiencies and darkness into one’s own body. When two women…
