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It’s the Year of the Nun!

Hey dolls! It’s Thursday, which means we’ve got a whole week of Dollhouse content hot and ready for you. From our thoughts on cinema’s Year of the Nun to a musing on YBA Sarah Lucas’ relationship to ladette culture, we’ve got loads to dig into, so let’s go, shall we?

Film Fatale: Celluloid Sisters, Theological Final Girls and the Year of the Nun (Opens in a new window)

Our Platform Editor Charlotte Landrum focuses this month’s column on the most ubiquitous woman in cinema right now: the nun.

Beauty Archivist: From Barbarella to Klute, How Hair Liberated Jane Fonda (Opens in a new window)

Beauty Editor Grace Ellington writes on how Jane Fonda’s personal and political awakening can be tracked through her onscreen hairstyles.

Loving the World: Alvina Chamberland in Conversation with Eliot Duncan (Opens in a new window)

Author Alvina Chamberland sits down with Eliot Duncan to discuss modernist literature, and writing the trans experience. “What a boring novel one would write if one prioritised being politically correct over being raw,” she says.

Fags, Slags and Ladettes: Classed Femininity in the Art of Sarah Lucas (Opens in a new window)

Jennifer Jasmine White writes on the YBA and perceptions of femininity and celebrity in the early 2000s.

Sukeban Girls: This Series Reinterprets 1970s Schoolgirl Gangs in New York City (Opens in a new window)

Upasana Das chats with Emily May Jampel and Anna Theroux Ling about their series Sukeban Girls, which reimagines a 1970s Japanese phenomenon for the present day.

Narcissus Online: The Echo-Chamber of Endless Reflection (Opens in a new window)

And finally, Mahika Dhar considers the effect that constantly seeing our images online has on us.

See ya next week!

XOXO,

The Polyester Team <3

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