alex hall
@lezzie-borden.bsky.social
swamp girl writing on film, haunted girls, queer/screen theory & archives ¤ creator of Lezzie Borden ¤ phd candidate ¤
https://linktr.ee/LezzieBorden
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"We recognized something queer about the film’s brand of teen girl defiance and anger," writes @lezzie-borden.bsky.social about watching 'The Craft' as a teen.
The strange queer powers of ‘The Craft’ | Xtra Magazine
How a coven of magical teen misfits sparked my ’90s coming out story
xtramagazine.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"We recognized something queer about the film’s brand of teen girl defiance and anger," writes @lezzie-borden.bsky.social about watching 'The Craft' as a teen.
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New My Favorite F***ing Movie is out! I originally wrote this essay for Daily Grindhouse when X first came out. I think this is such a special movie & I really love what I wrote about it, so I’m happy to be giving it a second life as part of this series.
Likes/shares/subscribes very appreciated 🖤
Likes/shares/subscribes very appreciated 🖤
Sex Won’t Kill You, But Something Else Surely Will
Ti West’s X (2022)
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New My Favorite F***ing Movie is out! I originally wrote this essay for Daily Grindhouse when X first came out. I think this is such a special movie & I really love what I wrote about it, so I’m happy to be giving it a second life as part of this series.
Likes/shares/subscribes very appreciated 🖤
Likes/shares/subscribes very appreciated 🖤
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When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.
Thank you, Miss Major.
Thank you, Miss Major.
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.
Thank you, Miss Major.
Thank you, Miss Major.
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How it’s going: open.substack.com/pub/myfavori...
September 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
How it’s going: open.substack.com/pub/myfavori...
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Happy first day of the fall semester, lads. youtu.be/DeoWhvsyOZ8?...
Nirvana - School (Live At The Paramount, Seattle / 1991)
YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO
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September 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Happy first day of the fall semester, lads. youtu.be/DeoWhvsyOZ8?...
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Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.
November 12, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.
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Going to be sending out our (long-delayed) first newsletter in a couple of hours, if anyone would like to still sign up — will contain some catalog updates and teases for what’s coming up next!
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September 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Going to be sending out our (long-delayed) first newsletter in a couple of hours, if anyone would like to still sign up — will contain some catalog updates and teases for what’s coming up next!
Subscribe here:
muscle-distribution.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Subscribe here:
muscle-distribution.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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We’re thrilled to say that our new digital restoration of Doris Wishman’s last-completed feature, DILDO HEAVEN (aka DESPERATE DESIRES, 2002), will be having its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin next month.
August 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We’re thrilled to say that our new digital restoration of Doris Wishman’s last-completed feature, DILDO HEAVEN (aka DESPERATE DESIRES, 2002), will be having its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin next month.
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Kanopy rules www.polygon.com/charlie-kauf...
Charlie Kaufman's new movie is getting released straight to libraries
How to Shoot a Ghost will be free to watch if you have a library card
www.polygon.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Kanopy rules www.polygon.com/charlie-kauf...
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I wrote about my beloved SHOWGIRLS for my reader's choice series. It's sort of funny that this is the longest essay I've written in a little bit, and it feels like I barely scratched the surface.
www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
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July 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I wrote about my beloved SHOWGIRLS for my reader's choice series. It's sort of funny that this is the longest essay I've written in a little bit, and it feels like I barely scratched the surface.
www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
www.patreon.com/posts/patron...
pleased to report the apricots are just as iconic as i needed them to be this summer (ft a diy filter of a sunscreen & sweat)
July 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
pleased to report the apricots are just as iconic as i needed them to be this summer (ft a diy filter of a sunscreen & sweat)
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🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
1000 Women in Horror
From the silent era until today, the nightmares that have haunted our screen have been sculpted and embodied by women, but many of those artists have gone....
miff.com.au
July 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
Whoever blasted Skeeter Davis' End of the World at the pool the other day really knew what to give the Girl, Interrupted fans what they wanted.
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Whoever blasted Skeeter Davis' End of the World at the pool the other day really knew what to give the Girl, Interrupted fans what they wanted.
the cherry trees are poppin' off this year fyi! and the apricot trees better, too. or else 😤😤
It's that time of year again when my routes around the city are pre-determined by the location of different neighbood fruit trees
July 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
the cherry trees are poppin' off this year fyi! and the apricot trees better, too. or else 😤😤
It's that time of year again when my routes around the city are pre-determined by the location of different neighbood fruit trees
July 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It's that time of year again when my routes around the city are pre-determined by the location of different neighbood fruit trees
Happy Pride to Rosemary’s baby who’s due date was the 28th of June, 1966 (06/66)
It’s also the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which took place just a few years following the birth of the antichrist.
It's no surprise that we’ve always had Satan on our side 👹🌈
It’s also the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which took place just a few years following the birth of the antichrist.
It's no surprise that we’ve always had Satan on our side 👹🌈
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy Pride to Rosemary’s baby who’s due date was the 28th of June, 1966 (06/66)
It’s also the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which took place just a few years following the birth of the antichrist.
It's no surprise that we’ve always had Satan on our side 👹🌈
It’s also the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which took place just a few years following the birth of the antichrist.
It's no surprise that we’ve always had Satan on our side 👹🌈
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Happy birthday to Kathy Bates, who made a sledgehammer scene Oscar-worthy 🔨✨
June 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Happy birthday to Kathy Bates, who made a sledgehammer scene Oscar-worthy 🔨✨
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If you read/liked this stunning piece on 28 Days Later, a reminder that hot @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social who wrote this co-authored an essential book on Sleepaway Camp with her equally hot wife @bjcolangelo.bsky.social, its just hotness all the way down with these fucken two 💜
June 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you read/liked this stunning piece on 28 Days Later, a reminder that hot @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social who wrote this co-authored an essential book on Sleepaway Camp with her equally hot wife @bjcolangelo.bsky.social, its just hotness all the way down with these fucken two 💜
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I'm slowly pulling together a book of essays about how horror movies portray the media, this article is part of that. ko-fi.com/post/Notes-O...
Notes On The Howling's Werewolf Jonestown by Sara Century
Sara Century published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I'm slowly pulling together a book of essays about how horror movies portray the media, this article is part of that. ko-fi.com/post/Notes-O...
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WELCOME CANCER SEASON! CARE MORE! FEEL IT ALL! MOODY! DEFENSIVE! NEEDINESS AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! INSTEAD OF BILLIONAIRES WE COULD HAVE HOUSING! AND HEALTHCARE! AND CHILDCARE! AND FOOD FOR ALL! EMO AS AN EXTREME SPORT! ABOLISH ICE! FREE THEM ALL! ARMS EMBARGO! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER!
June 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
WELCOME CANCER SEASON! CARE MORE! FEEL IT ALL! MOODY! DEFENSIVE! NEEDINESS AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! INSTEAD OF BILLIONAIRES WE COULD HAVE HOUSING! AND HEALTHCARE! AND CHILDCARE! AND FOOD FOR ALL! EMO AS AN EXTREME SPORT! ABOLISH ICE! FREE THEM ALL! ARMS EMBARGO! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER! WAR IS OVER!
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Since May 1st I've printed, assembled, and mostly distributed over 700 copies of my booklet "Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?" This coming week I plan to make something new but you can still get these for $3.00 (or $2.00 if you buy 10 or more) from: halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...
June 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Since May 1st I've printed, assembled, and mostly distributed over 700 copies of my booklet "Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?" This coming week I plan to make something new but you can still get these for $3.00 (or $2.00 if you buy 10 or more) from: halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...
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Our June series FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE: A TRANS CINEMA CELEBRATION starts Tuesday with Ed Wood's GLEN OR GLENDA on 35mm at Nitehawk Williamsburg.
May 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Our June series FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE: A TRANS CINEMA CELEBRATION starts Tuesday with Ed Wood's GLEN OR GLENDA on 35mm at Nitehawk Williamsburg.
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did some illustrations for this piece!
May 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
did some illustrations for this piece!
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We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve picked up North American rights for @weard.moe’s epic-in-the-making CASTRATION MOVIE — and — it’ll be having its U.S. festival premiere at Frameline next month.
More info:
www.muscle-distribution.com/films/castra...
More info:
www.muscle-distribution.com/films/castra...
May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve picked up North American rights for @weard.moe’s epic-in-the-making CASTRATION MOVIE — and — it’ll be having its U.S. festival premiere at Frameline next month.
More info:
www.muscle-distribution.com/films/castra...
More info:
www.muscle-distribution.com/films/castra...