Category: Culture
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The Nation in Our Underwear
A piece in Nat Brut on the work of Azita Moradkhani “It started the first time I walked into Victoria’s Secret.” Azita Moradkhani, an artist who has lived most of her life in Tehran, begins our phone conversation by excusing her English. She just learned it, she tells me, a few years ago to move to…
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Seeking Sunny Leone: Academic Writing on Indian Erotica
Read the full piece at Critical Collective, a global India-based web journal of fine arts. One sweltering Delhi May, hot on the research trail of visual and cinematic erotica, I wandered through the back lanes and offices of the B-film marketers of Chandni Chowk. A family friend—we’ll call him Deepak Uncle— had agreed to show…
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Wonder Woman’s Vision of Empire
Originally published at Feministing So I saw Wonder Woman last weekend with my grandma, and oh my god guys, I exited that theater like a classy martini—shaken. Now if you’re like many of my friends, you probably never want to hear anything uttered about the Wonder Woman movie (hey, maybe the entire franchise) ever again. That’s real. But even if…
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The Most Brilliant Woman in the Room: Creative Freedom, Gender Justice, and Female Collaboration
Read the original piece in Louder Than Ten. She was the most brilliant woman in the room. She was talented, she was charismatic, and damn, could she write. I wanted her and I wanted to be her. We talked long into the night about books and what we wanted out of college. We went to parties…
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Should I Harass This Woman on The Internet?
These days, women have begun to use the internet. Like other highly sexual activities — bicycle riding and the showing of one’s ankles — this form of newfangled female audacity can drive a man mad. Faced with all those flirty emoticons and naughty statuses about “walking the dog” and “burrito-eating,” it can be hard for…
Reina Gattuso 