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  • CanConnections: A History of Canadian Media

    With the success of Heated Rivalry going viral on social media, Canadian native Alex Stevenson explores the history of the True North's media.

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  • girlblog! Recommends: Morally Reprehensible Queers

    girlblog! Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gambling dishes the dirty, filthy, film recommendations for Pride Month: Morally Reprehensible Queers. Including cult classics like Showgirls (1995), D.E.B.S. (2004), and Shiva Baby (2020).

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  • Three Models On Visibility and Identity in the Age of the Algorithm

    girlblog! Lifestyle Editor Tenai Palomino interviews three models — Raya Pascua, Sabrina Khouiel, and Ebony Hope — on how they navigate the changing modelling landscape in the age of the social media algorithm.

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  • Jungian Archetypes and Womanhood in Horror Cinema

    Writer, poet, and witch Reia Wood uses Caroline Myss’ Archetype Cards, to decipher the feminine archetypes presented in horror films: Maiden, Mother, Lover, and Crone.

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  • Drag Artistry as Rebellion

    Filmmaker and writer Jenny Smart details the essential characteristics of drag: performance, parody, and rebellion, and why this makes it a weapon against oppressive societal structures.

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  • What's Up With Kimiko's Dialogue in The Boys?

    Rachel Gambling, Editor-in-Chief of girlblog!, noticed a lot of discourse around the newly introduced dialogue for one of The Boys' beloved characters, Kimiko Miyashiro. The opinions were mostly negative, but The Boys has always had schoolboy, cringeworthy dialogue -- so why were reactions different this time around?

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  • Marmozets' Becca Bottomley is Embracing Life

    Hooray! Marmozets are back and better than ever with their new album, CO.WAR.DICE. girlblog! Music Editor Bailey Ewers-Smith had the chance to catch up with lead singer Becca Bottomley about the band’s seven-year break.

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  • Marmozets' CO.WAR.DICE is Their Best Album Yet

    Music Editor Bailey Ewers-Smith reviews the latest album by Marmozets, CO.WAR.DICE, their first after a seven-year hiatus.

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  • Your 'Instant Cult Classic' is Kitschy

    Avery Jay, Film & TV Editor for girlblog!, dissects the anatomy of a cult classic, and whether these can ever truly be ‘instant.’

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  • Four Favourites: May

    Vroom vroom! girlblog’s four favourites for May, picked by Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gambling, range from a film about kitty cats to two about public shags.

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as we say hello tocharli xcx’slatest album, Music Fashion Film, we at girlblog!bid a final goodbyeto brat. or, more fittingly, we sayhellotobrat summer forever. or, perhaps, we say hello goodbye. whatever happened to that remix, anyway? the best we can do isthis playlist.

Featuring Charli xcx, Ava Max, Dua Lipa, SOPHIE, and Caroline Polachek.

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cat of the month

Egad! The cat of the month for July is not technically a cat, but a... shapeshifting woman who may or may not turn into a panther when sexually aroused? Ah, close enough.

Jacques Tourneur's Cat People follows a Serbian woman named Irena, who believes that she will turn into a black panther if she becomes sexually aroused. This stems from the figure King John of Serbia, a medieval warrior who slayed an evil black panther with his sword. Irena cannot be persuaded that she isn't a descendent of this panther and consequently has a very avoidant attachment style.

But a marine engineer named Oliver finds her quirky and mysterious. Despite sex and any form of heavy petting being totally off the table, Oliver insists that he's in love with Irena (sure, pal) and proposes to her. The two marry, but when Irena doesn't put out Oliver soon goes off her and gets cosy with his best friend Alice (typical).

Cat People was released during The Hays Code era of Hollywood cinema, which banned "profanity, suggestive nudity, graphic or realistic violence, sexual persuasions and rape" from films made during the period of 1934 to 1968. Because of this, it's now often speculated that Irena's fears are symbolic of her lesbianism. Viewers point particularly to the final scene at the pool, in which Irena is implied to turn into a panther whilst Alice is in her swimming costume. At no other point during the film does Irena have this same reaction.

Sounds pretty gay to me.

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Cape Point is a poetry pamphlet written by girblog editor-in-chief Rachel Gambling. in this collection, she explores her South African heritage through accounts of her first visit to cape town, her grandparents’ birhplace.

Part of Estuary Anthology 2025. Between 21-29 June 2025, a series of poems was posted on girlblog!, forming Rachel’s debut poetry pamphlet. Some poems are still available to read here. You can purchase the full pamphlet via girlblog!.

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