high femme's best of 2025 "friends of high femme spent the last couple of weeks brainstorming and sharing their favorite art of the past year."

Honored to have been asked to contribute to @hifemme.bsky.social's beautifully ecclectic best of 2025 list

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Marleen Gorris on Survival Under Patriarchy "Gorris [sledgehammers] our expectations in order to show us not just how the world is, but exactly what (or who) is making it that way."

NEW PIECE ALERT! I wrote a long and loving tribute to Marleen Gorris for @hifemme.bsky.social and trust me when I say, you’ll want Gorris on your radar! hi-femme.com/marleen-gorr...

today on high femme, kelly pau writes AN ODE TO MONSTER COCKS hi-femme.com/an-ode-to-mo...

'Slutever' Review "Slutever’s sexual value system (hedonistic composure, autonomy, and acceptance of some social risk) has been a sacred reminder for me."

"Slutever’s sexual value system (hedonistic composure, autonomy, and acceptance of some social risk) has been a sacred reminder for me." - veronica phillips (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) on karley sciortino's book, SLUTEVER
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thank you so much, julia!

If you're not subscribed to @hifemme.bsky.social 's piercingly intelligent, vivid conversation about Showgirls with @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social. It crackles; makes me want to watch the movie again pronto.

'28 Years Later' Review "With their return, Boyle and Garland make the most out of the larger canvas the years away gave them to work with."

"With their return, Boyle and Garland make the most out of the larger canvas the years away gave them to work with." read skyler hanrath on 28 YEARS LATER hi-femme.com/28-years-lat...

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The Internet's "Shock" Therapy: On Sabrina, Lorde, and Bonnie "I do not think that taking a sexually submissive photo leads to one experiencing spiritual decline."

veronica wrote on the boring, repetitive, conservative “shock” discourses that keep cropping up around the very well-precedented antics of porn stars and pop stars hi-femme.com/the-internet...

The Other Side of The Boot: DomCon Dispatch #2 "I chat with two doms who have been in the scene for decades, and they tell me their mission is never to damage anyone. “A little pain, sure. But never damage.”

and our part two! hi-femme.com/the-other-si...

Big Red Sub: DomCon Dispatch #1 "Everyone knows each other, knows the culture, knows the wardrobe (sexy leather and latex), and I’m here like a hayseed in my stupid-ass light wash jeans."

high femme had the most amazing time at domcon! read our coverage! hi-femme.com/big-red-sub-...

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HAPPY PRIDE! we hope to give you queer criticism and writing year-round, but we have some especially fun and freaky stuff lined up for june! this week,
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It Can’t Rain All the Time: The Crow Near the completion of filming The Crow, the star was killed in a shooting accident on set. Mughal argues against the criticism that the tragedy overshadows the quality of the film and shows readers t...

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i wrote about the trans masc “i’m not transitioning to be a man, i’m transitioning to be a pretty boy” phenomenon, my realization that i do NOT want to be a pretty boy, and dolly parton

Della, Dolly, Drag, and Me "Disembodied, the girl in the mirror is no kind of girl at all, but a projection of a girl."

more for our femininity issue! shaawan francis keahna @shaawan.com on his sibling, his relationship with femininity, and dolly parton drag. read it!!!! hi-femme.com/della-dolly-...

Della, Dolly, Drag, and Me "Disembodied, the girl in the mirror is no kind of girl at all, but a projection of a girl."

more for our femininity issue! shaawan francis keahna @shaawan.com on his sibling, his relationship with femininity, and dolly parton drag. read it!!!! hi-femme.com/della-dolly-...

I had the great pleasure to write about Wong Kar-wai's THE GRANDMASTER and the dogma of female perfection for @hifemme.bsky.social :)

'The Grandmaster', A Woman's Winter, and the Damning Power of Stasis "When she first appears in The Grandmaster, Gong Er arrives like a queen."

next in our femininity issue, roxane llanque @roxanellanque.bsky.social on wong kar-wai's THE GRANDMASTER and its central female character, gong er hi-femme.com/the-grandmas...

'Old Boyfriends' is a celebration of female personhood "Dianne’s on a road trip in reverse. She knows where the road ends, a marriage that failed, and she rejects it."

our femininity issue continues with sarah on @sgorr.bsky.social on Joan Tewkesbury’s OLD BOYFRIENDS! read! hi-femme.com/old-boyfrien...

The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire The disappearance of the sex scene in American cinema, the suppression of the body under the moral imperative of commodities in neoliberal capitalism, and Verhoeven as antagonizer.

much of our conversation is inspired by carlee’s essential, game-changing piece specchioscuro.it/the-puritani...

Hyper-femininity, Transaction and 'Showgirls' with Carlee Gomes A conversation with Carlee Gomes

high femme’s femininity issue began on monday! read our conversation between veronica and the fabulous carlee @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social on hyperfemininity, transaction, and paul verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS. hi-femme.com/hyper-femini...

Me, for @hifemme.bsky.social's Best of 2024 newsletter. (If you're in a punch-a-Nazi kind of mood today and want to wallow in it while respectfully ogling Dev Patel. I have to add a big ol' content warning for sexual violence, though. Skip the trauma flashback if you need to)

'Magic Mike XXL' Review "In Magic Mike XXL, we are offered a glimpse of utopia."

from the High Femme archives! Veronica (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) on MAGIC MIKE XXL
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'Fatal Attraction' Review "For [Alex] to succeed in attaining Dan means systems like marriage, big houses, and the presumed “natural” progression in the narrative we have been offered over and over of a “proper” life, all beco...

from the High Femme archives! Veronica (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) reviews FATAL ATTRACTION hi-femme.com/fatal-attrac...

'Indecent Proposal' Review "Indecent Proposal is clearly not a movie about sex work. If anything, it’s a movie about how we are all able to be bought."

from the High Femme archives! Veronica (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) reviews INDECENT PROPOSAL hi-femme.com/indecent-pro...

'Challengers' Review This film isn't sexy like sex as much as it is sexy like an airbrushed magazine centerfold.

from the High Femme archives! Veronica Phillips (@veronicaphillips.bsky.social) wrote briefly on CHALLENGERS hi-femme.com/challengers/

“Which Do You Want? Real or Phony?”: On Jane B. Par Agnès V. "Helen of Troy might’ve had a face that launched a thousand ships, but Jane [Birkin] had a face that inspired the most expensive and sought-after designer handbag in the world."

today from the High Femme archives! Soraya Sebghati (@sorayaspaghetti.bsky.social) on JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V.
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Thank you so much, Sav! I'm ride or die for all fellow Chasing Amy heads. The doc was really so great.

'Lisa Frankenstein' Review "It’s rare for any teen paranormal romance to let its freak flag fly quite like this one does."

from Leah Carlson-Downie (@themingtacular.bsky.social) a few months back: a wonderful read on LISA FRANKENSTEIN hi-femme.com/lisa-franken...