the girlblog! team
Rachel Gambling
(she/they)
Editor-in-Chief
Hi! I’m Rachel, the creator of girlblog!, and I want to revive Riot Grrrl in the UK. I was born and raised in Essex, UK. I developed a love for the alternative scene and began studying intersectional feminism when I was a teenager. Class consciousness and feminine rage are central to my creativity. I’m a non-practicing bisexual and slightly tan due to the South African heritage on my mother’s side.
Avery Jay
(she/they)
Film & TV Editor
Avery copes with the horrors of the world through her love for horror in the media. They're a journalist hunting down the best queer horror, a scholar tracking the history of Black horror, and a community organizer bringing diverse genre fans together in NYC and beyond. There's no such thing as a "bad movie" where Avery's concerned. Her work has been published across entertainment publications: in print and online. They're the Horror Oracle: divining horror's mystique.
Bailey Ewers-Smith
(he/they)
Music Editor
Bailey is a podcaster and women/LGBTQ+-focused independent gig promoter. Since 2022, they have hosted Joining Me Today, an audiovisual podcast. They have interviewed a wide variety of guests from the music industry, including Frank Turner, HotWax, TJ Smith, and IWABO's Mike Martin. He founded his own gig promotion brand, JMT Live, dedicated to celebrating female and LGBTQ+ artists. Their first show was last November, headlined by Marshall Records signees Autumn Fires.
Tenai Palomino
(she/her)
Lifestyle Editor
Tenai is a West Midlands-born, London-based writer, editor, and self-proclaimed pop culture fiend. With international journalism experience and a background in fashion and culture writing, she has written extensively on emerging creatives and ideas that fuel our ever-changing cultural landscape. Having interviewed a wide range of artists, Tenai is drawn to deepening her understanding of the world through the creatives contributing to it. She continues to explore how entertainment and the media influence the way we connect and engage, while balancing her love for the latest horror releases and throwback reality TV.
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Pol Mills of BE N!CE Talks Burn It Down Festival and Their New EP
girlblog! Music Editor Bailey Ewers-Smith had the chance to chat with Pol Mills before the release of BE N!CE's second EP IT'S GETTING HARDER and performance at Burn It Down Festival on the 2nd and 3rd September.
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Why Does British Summertime Make Us All Feral?
girlblog! Lifestyle Editor Tenai Palomino takes us through the reasons why the British people all go a little feral during our currently never-ending heatwaves, and what this means for our changing climate.
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The People We Don't Meet On Vacation
Avery Jay, girlblog's Film & TV Editor, picks our some perfect recommendations for your flight to your next vacation destination. Muy bien!
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Four Favourites: June
This month’s Four Favourites from girlblog! Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gambling cover ground from recently released horror and thriller titles Die My Love, Backrooms, and Faces of Death to Coralie Fargeat’s feature debut Revenge.
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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?
