IT'S SPOOPY SZN!!!

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Hello lovelies!

It's October!!! Apologies for not writing to you last week. I had a friend visiting and I didn't have time to put this together, so this week will be loaded with lots of goodies for you to read over the weekend. I am THRILLED about all of the spooky content that's being generated this month. There's bits on witches as queer icons, pop culture comparisons to monsters in our government, how the horror genre is making us feel better about real life, and so much more.

I love, what I like to call, spoopy season for many reasons. My hair is no longer frizzy. I can wear all of my best outfits because layers are a lifestyle. I can drink chai lattes that keep my hands warm when a cool breeze blows. I can walk around Central Park and not sweat to death. I can smell the season changing. I can watch scary movies and shows. I can drink hot toddies and warm teas. I can wear my black lipstick and no one will bat an eye. But these are not consequential. You see, horror, as a genre, has been largely disregarded among the pop culutre canon, but spoopy season is the one time of year when people religiously revisit cult classics and relive the glory days. As a lover of the arts, pop culture enthusiast, and aesthetic goth, this is the time of year when everyone catches up to what I've been saying all along: (The original) Halloween is the best horror film ever made. I'm going to see the new Halloween tonight (EEEP!) and will report back next week.

It finally feels like Autumn so go forth and watch some scary shit while drinking a warm beverage in your favorite sweater. Send me your recommendations and maybe I'll throw them in next week's newsletter.

xx Sarah

PS. I don't fuck with haunted houses.

The Reads

~ What Even Is a Going-Out Top Anymore? ~

~ Just Because I’m Gay Doesn’t Mean I Want to Be Your Sidekick ~

~ 61 things Donald Trump has said about women ~

~ How Does the Art World Live With Itself? ~

~ Jenny Holzer Made Good Things Out of Horror ~

~ An Oral History Of Voguing From A Pioneer Of The Iconic Dance ~

~ Holy Spirits: The Power and Legacy of America's Female Spiritualists ~

~ How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town ~

~ How Instagram Saved Poetry ~

~ What Is Polyamory? ~

~ Domestic Violence Awareness Hasn’t Caught Up With #MeToo. Here’s Why. ~

~ Eight Stories of Men's Regret ~

~ Beyond the Narrow Expectations of Gender ~

~ Witchcraft in TV and Movies Has Always Been Gay as Hell ~

~ Women in the U.S. Can Now Get Safe Abortions by Mail ~

~ Sears’s ‘radical’ past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow ~

~ What's the Difference Between a Frat and a Gang? ~

~ The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’ ~

~ The Tiny Blond Bible Teacher Taking on the Evangelical Political Machine ~

~ Say No to Say Yes ~

~ D rowning in My Own Estrogen ~

~ Why Breaking Up and Being Single is Actually the Best ~

~ My Selfies Shouldn’t Affect My Career ~

~ If men had to get IUDs, they’d get epidurals and a hospital stay ~

~ A ‘Sugar Date’ Gone Sour ~

~ Controlling Interest: Revisioning the binary of abortion and contraception ~

~ Notes On "Camp" ~

~ A History of Lipstick As Warfare ~

~ All the Lipsticks I’ve Bought for Women I’ll Never Be ~

~ The Road to Progress Is Paved With Pain ~

~ Roxane Gay: Why The #MeToo Movement Still Has A Lot Left To Do ~

~ Ugly Beauty ~

~ Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father ~

~ In Praise of Mediocrity ~

Psst. This is a new newsletter, joining the race of amazing newsletters everywhere (my favorites are GNI, Ann Friedman Weekly, and the NYT's Gender Letter). It would be super awesome of you were to share it with a friend and get them to subscribe as well. Then I might be able to lure sure cool brands to our platform and finally pay myself (and Malaika) for all of this amazing pink work I (we) do <3 Thanks in advance and I love you!

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