Jenny Clarke Listening to Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli talk So Pretty, Working Girls, and Beyond This Culture Club entry …
Culture Club: Listening to Courtney Barnett and Adriene
By Reba Martin Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit is available on Spotify, Youtube and …
Culture Club: Watching INDIANARA by Marcelo Barbosa and Aude Chevalier-Beaumel
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
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
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
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 …
Culture Club: Watching BETWEEN US WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED
By Grace Barber-Plentie. Illustration by Javie Huxley. The Between Us We Have Everything We Need short film programme was available …
Culture Club: Watching THE LIGHTHOUSE by Maria Saakyan
By Cathy Brennan The Lighthouse is available to rent from Vimeo on Demand via Fixafilm until Thursday 6th August, as …
Culture Club: Watching THE WATERMELON WOMAN by Cheryl Dunye
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
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
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
By Andrea Luka Zimmerman Daisies is available to stream via Second Run’s new Vimeo on Demand service, £4.99 for one …
Culture Club: Listening to Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli Talk SO PRETTY, WORKING GIRLS, and Beyond
By Lizzie Borden and Jessie Rovinelli SO PRETTY is being released on June 12 by Sentient.Art.Film in the US. International …
Culture Club: Reading WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS by Saidiya Hartman
By Hyun Jin Cho Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals is available …
Culture Club: Watching Myself Watching Netflix’s LGBTQ+ “Recommendations”
By Clara Bradbury-Rance Clara’s book Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory is forthcoming in paperback from Edinburgh University Press. Netflix is available …
Culture Club: Watching HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE by Rea Tajiri
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
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
By Helen Charman Fetch the Bolt Cutters is available to stream on Spotify and can be pre-ordered on CD and double …
Culture Club: Listening to EVERY BAD by Porridge Radio
By Sarah Crewe Every Bad is available to stream on Spotify or the band’s YouTube channel, download or purchase (CD/LP) from Bandcamp, …
Culture Club: Listening to Ojerime’s B4 I BREAKDOWN & Watching Darnell Martin’s I LIKE IT LIKE THAT
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
By Ania Ostrowska The Daughters of Fire (Las Hijas del Fuego) is streaming on MUBI until 22 April 2020. You …
Culture Club: Wanting to be Reading THREADS OF LIVE by Clare Hunter (& to be stitching)
By Jenny Clarke I am currently living an unintentionally minimalist life in Edinburgh; I moved myself and some essentials up …
Culture Club: Watching Barbra Streisand
By Sarah Wood I heard the news that my friend Clare had died in China. She’s the first person I …
Culture Club: Reading BEDSIT DISCO QUEEN by Tracey Thorn & listening to the Marine Girls
By Selina Robertson Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, 2013) is out now in paperback. Marine Girls’ albums Beach …