God save the queer, Michela Murgia’s latest literary effort

The last literary effort of Michela Murgia has as its title God save the queer-feminist catechism (Ed. Einaudi, Stile libero series, page 152). After Ave Mary, the well-known Sardinian writer tackles the controversial relationship between feminism and religion with a refined dialectical verve and feels the overwhelming need for “understand which aspects of life and … Read more

A collective of artists revives Argentine folklore from a queer perspective

A frame of the music video Mujera BAGNER production. A young couple dance to the rhythm of the Argentine folk music known as chamamé [it], the synchronized steps, the bodies that touch each other tenderly, the gazes that meet and escape; they hug the one to the other, kiss and unite in harmonious cadence, in … Read more

Enigmatic, transgressive, gleefully queer: the 70s cult movie you’ve never seen

The late 1960s and early 1970s were a prolific time for American cinema, though not all of the groundbreaking films of that period have achieved the hallowed status of dangerous streets either badlands. One, at least, has been missing for nearly half a century. Emerging from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury counterculture scene, Luminous Procuress is an … Read more