Why I Love Bound
Corky gets the girl, the car and the money. The men think desire makes Corky and Violet careless. It makes them dangerous.
Read it ↗NO ALIBIS / THE SHANTZ JOURNAL
No cutaways.
No alibis.
Queer crime. Explicit sex. Violence that changes the body and the rest of the story. Close readings of writers and filmmakers who keep the camera where it hurts.
Stop Killing Her for Heat
A dead queer woman is not automatically a serious story. Sometimes the writer only wanted a wound and an easy motive.
Read it ↗A Woman Does Not Owe You a Likeable Hunger
Evelyn Marie Shantz on difficult women in fiction, desire, accountability and the demand to make appetite acceptable.
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