[This review contains spoilers and information about sexual assault and/or violence that may be triggering] WATCH THE DOC HERE. I remember when I got into Lydia Lunch. Just as it happened to many of her fans, her debut album, Queen of Siam (1980), became a favorite when I was a…

I remember the time I found Betty Davis’ music. I was 19 and in the second year of my graduation course. I became so fascinated with her bold style which included silver thigh-high boots, slips, fishnets, leather pants matching seethrough blouses with no bra, and glam rock leotards; and when…

Prior to 2021, I wasn’t a St. Vincent fan. I used to every now and then watch her 4AD Sessions performance of the song Surgeon, and I even thought that the song perfectly fitted my life. However, I couldn’t get past that, and I didn’t understand why since I was…

If you are a fan of Babes in Toyland (1987–2001; 2014–2020), eventually you will find Kat Bjelland’s side projects and fall in love with them too. From 1993 to 1995, Salem’s guitarist picked up a bass and played alongside her then-husband, Stu Gray (Lubricated Goat), in the alternative band Crunt…

WARNINGS: The review contains spoilers; the limited series portrays domestic violence. *I used the pronoun he/him to refer to the abuser because of the statistics that show us that domestic violence is mostly perpetrated by cis men. Maid is a ten-part series from Netflix, created by Molly Smith Metzler, and…

This reviews contains spoiler and trigger warnings. There have been a number of female revenge thrillers in which the protagonist seeks justice through blood. Meir Zarchi’s 1978 I Spit on Your Grave, Bo Arne Vibenius’s 1973 Thriller: A Cruel Picture and Abel Ferrara’s 1981 Ms. 45 are some of the examples I can think of now, with…

[Spoiler alert!] Jean Dorothy Seberg was born in 1938 in the state of Iowa, United States. In less than two decades, she’d know the sweet taste of fame which would turn out sour. Seberg made her film debut in the title role of Saint Joan (1957), by director Otto Preminger…

If you believed that the 90s punk feminist movement, Riot Grrrl, which combined punk music, feminism and politics, was a thing of the past, you are utterly wrong. The early movement surely is emblematic as it has paved the path for young girls to take over the front of the…

When German child Christa Päffgen witnessed the horrors of World War II, its imagery was marked by morbidity and nihilism. This would haunt her for many years and define her ultimate identity. The Christa that exists in the imagination of many who knew her by the stage name of Nico…