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Best of Culture Club 2020: Our Picks

Selina Robertson December 21, 2020 Writing

Jenny Clarke Listening to Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli talk So Pretty, Working Girls, and Beyond This Culture Club entry …

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The image shows a woman with dark, below shoulder-length hair, wearing a sleeveless black V-neck top and a choker with a small pendant. She is looking out of the window at trees in leaf, and they are visible reflected in the window.

Culture Club: Listening to Courtney Barnett and Adriene

Selina Robertson October 1, 2020 Writing

By Reba Martin Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit is available on Spotify, Youtube and …

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Culture Club: Watching INDIANARA by Marcelo Barbosa and Aude Chevalier-Beaumel

Selina Robertson September 17, 2020 Writing

Casa Nem is an occupied house where LGBT people, mainly sex working trans women of colour, can stay and live together. Indianara is the founder. The film is full of shots of the girls hanging out at Casa Nem or Indianara’s place: in a pool, dancing tits out, getting ready or whatever. It’s so rare to see trans women lounging around together and having fun on screen. 

Culture Club: Watching THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Sofia Coppola

Selina Robertson September 10, 2020 Writing

It was here that I discovered Sofia Coppola, here that I learned of the Lisbon sisters and their tragic fates, here that I felt the first stirs of recognition. Five young girls, entombed in suburbia, with no way out.

Culture Club: Reading IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado

Selina Robertson September 2, 2020 Writing

My friend warned me when she got me the book. I kept it on a table for two weeks before I picked it up. Five days so that if it had traces of Covid on it, it would die. Nine days to gather the courage. The book she was talking about is Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House.

Culture Club: Watching A PLACE OF RAGE by Pratibha Parmar

Selina Robertson August 14, 2020 Writing

By Irenosen Okojie You can watch A Place of Rage for $9.99/£8.00 (50% off) via Vimeo on Demand here; thanks to the …

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Culture Club: Watching BETWEEN US WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED

Selina Robertson August 6, 2020 Writing

By Grace Barber-Plentie. Illustration by Javie Huxley. The Between Us We Have Everything We Need short film programme was available …

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Culture Club: Watching THE LIGHTHOUSE by Maria Saakyan

Selina Robertson July 29, 2020 Writing

By Cathy Brennan The Lighthouse is available to rent from Vimeo on Demand via Fixafilm until Thursday 6th August, as …

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Culture Club: Watching THE WATERMELON WOMAN by Cheryl Dunye

Selina Robertson July 22, 2020 Writing

I love Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman for enacting how hard it can be to sift through history to find those trailblazers who actually left little trace behind them. And also, how history doesn’t always reward us with heroism.

Culture Club: Watching Film History through Women’s Documentaries

Selina Robertson July 15, 2020 Writing

A small gesture to re-inscribe women into film history, as Christine Gledhill and Julia Knight point out, changes not just women’s film history but all film history.

Culture Club: Watching SWEET SUGAR RAGE by Sistren Theatre Collective

Selina Robertson July 9, 2020 Writing

By Grace Barber-Plentie. What Sweet Sugar Rage does so successfully is to show resistance as well as solidarity through art and problem-solving. The women in this film provide community – they listen to each others problems, but more than that, they offer viable solutions.

Culture Club: Watching DAISIES by Vera Chytilová

Selina Robertson June 26, 2020 Writing

By Andrea Luka Zimmerman   Daisies is available to stream via Second Run’s new Vimeo on Demand service, £4.99 for one …

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Culture Club: Listening to Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli Talk SO PRETTY, WORKING GIRLS, and Beyond

Selina Robertson June 17, 2020 Writing

By Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli SO PRETTY is being released on June 12 by Sentient.Art.Film in the US. International …

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Culture Club: Reading WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS by Saidiya Hartman

Selina Robertson June 2, 2020 Writing

By Hyun Jin Cho Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals is available …

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Culture Club: Watching Myself Watching Netflix’s LGBTQ+ “Recommendations”

Selina Robertson May 27, 2020 Writing

By Clara Bradbury-Rance Clara’s book Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory is forthcoming in paperback from Edinburgh University Press. Netflix is available …

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Culture Club: Watching HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE by Rea Tajiri

Selina Robertson May 21, 2020 Writing

I have been thankful, during social isolation, for the generosity of the many media artists, especially women of colour, who have shared their work on the Internet. Among them is Rea Tajiri, whose classic, half-hour experimental documentary video, History and Memory, has long been hard to see outside of art spaces and classrooms.

Culture Club: Watching WHERE I GROW OLD by Marília Rochas

Selina Robertson May 13, 2020 Writing

WHERE I GROW OLD also acts as a love letter to the city where Rocha was born and co-created TEIA, a collective based in Belo Horizonte. It showcases a city which is rarely documented on screen

Culture Club: Listening to FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS by Fiona Apple

Selina Robertson May 7, 2020 Writing

By Helen Charman Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double …

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Culture Club: Listening to EVERY BAD by Porridge Radio

Selina Robertson April 30, 2020 Writing

By Sarah Crewe Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, …

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Culture Club: Listening to Ojerime’s B4 I BREAKDOWN & Watching Darnell Martin’s I LIKE IT LIKE THAT

Selina Robertson April 23, 2020 Writing

I am trying to not force myself to keep up with reading, listening or watching anything and I feel that as a result I have found so many things that have brought me joy. Here are a few of them

Culture Club: Watching THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE by Albertina Carri

Selina Robertson April 14, 2020 Writing

By Ania Ostrowska   The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020.  You …

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The image shows the cover of Clare Hunter's book Threads of Life, with the title stitched in royal blue on a background of golden stitches that resemble grain.

Culture Club: Wanting to be Reading THREADS OF LIVE by Clare Hunter (& to be stitching)

Selina Robertson April 6, 2020 Writing

By Jenny Clarke I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up …

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Barbra Streisand, wearing a fawn-coloured coat, stands on the street in New York with her arms spread wide. The image is from the film The Way We Were.

Culture Club: Watching Barbra Streisand

Selina Robertson April 2, 2020 Writing

By Sarah Wood I heard the news that my friend Clare had died in China. She’s the first person I …

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Image shows band The Marine Girls, three young women including Tracey Thorn on the left. They are standing in front of a graffiti'd wall.

Culture Club: Reading BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN by Tracey Thorn & listening to the Marine Girls

Selina Robertson March 26, 2020 Writing

By Selina Robertson Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, 2013) is out now in paperback. Marine Girls’ albums Beach …

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