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?
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.
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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.
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.
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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
