Trish Bendix

Wrote about this very thing on my Substack this morning litfemme.substack.com/p/from-bette-d…

Founded in 1972, Jewel’s Catch One was one of the first, if not the first, Black-owned discos in the country and a safe haven for Black and LGBTQ people in L.A. Watch a newly available #InTheLife interview with its founder, Jewel Thais-Williams: youtu.be/CkpUKNfDLgg #Pride

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St. Vincent on lead with the Pat, Krist and Dave from Nirvana performing "Breed" at the FireAid benefit concert in Los Angeles

". . . how a tiny magazine run by a lesbian couple from the American Midwest came to publish some of the most innovative writing produced across Europe and the US between 1914 and 1929." @francescawade on THE LITTLE REVIEW nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Diary entires by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, as adapted by E.A. Bethea, part of a 10 page story on Zwerling by Bethea for CREASE, an anthology of adaptations of transgressive literature---coming soon (we swear) from Domino. Link to pre-order here: dominobooks.org/crease.html

Granta mourns the great Gary Indiana. We unlock his last piece for us, and will publish the fiction he was working on in our Spring issue. granta.com/five-oclock-so…

Albert in the streets, Alberta in the sheets...

she really hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and her cardigan

In "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage" @masiasare explores the cultural linage of icons like Ma Rainey, Eartha Kitt, and Bessie Smith. Read the intro at ow.ly/Fik450SW3Px

For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about the brilliant Joanna Russ and her extremely gay realist novel, recently reissued by @FeministPress: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

A reminder of how Anne Sexton quietly destroys us:

push me over intermission in 3 days… marenmorris.lnk.to/Intermission

from the diary of virginia woolf

such a pleasure to work with Mary Gaitskill on this strange essay, and to see how she expresses uncanny and unknowable things with such clear prose (available to read for free right now) granta.com/pneuma-illusio…

ty @trishbendix (& chloe caldwell) 💘

Back at IFC Center next Monday for a rare screening of these two 90s dyke porn classics, with producer / On Our Backs magazine cofounder Nan Kinney in attendance ifccenter.com/films/suburban…

@jeremylybarger @thebafflermag Great piece! Excited to see the show will come to L.A. next!

For @thebafflermag, I wrote about Christina Ramberg, a cult artist who died young. She was a metaphysician of the body, with all of its seductions, handicaps, and corruption. thebaffler.com/latest/rituali…