Girls, Guts, and Giallo

Appy-polly loggies for the unexpected break, my brothers. But I promise this one is a real horrorshow for the prestoopnick ookos that require a bit of the old ultraviolence. My droog joins your favorite devotchka for a bit of the old in out.
Just kidding! We're talking about Stanley Kubrick's transgressive masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange. Iris Ray is a photographer and cinephile with an eye the chaotic, colorful, and pop art inspired, making them a perfect guest for this film! This is a long one since we analyze in a traditional scene by scene format. We chat about the controversy surrounding the film's release and it's themes of homoerotic masculinity that portended our current cultural environment. We gush over the interiors and costumes. In fact, Iris replicated Alex de Large's droog outfit! So definitely check this episode out on my YouTube channel if the platform you're on only allows audio.
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If you identify with the goth subculture or the alternative community, you've likely seen discourse in your algorithm about the "hypersexualization" or the "fetishization" of the goth girl. Indeed, the rise of the goth girl in the adult content sphere has caused quite a stir in the community, with creators now being accused of LARPing as a way to draw in male viewers and contributing to an overall cultural atmosphere of porn sickness, misogyny, and the sexualization of alternative women. We all hate posers, of course. But when does this discourse become puritanical and straight up anti-sex worker? Adult content creator and tattoo artist Kris Quinn joins me for a discussion about just this very thing. We weigh in as two older goth women who have been working in the fetish/sex work space for most of our lives. Gothic culture evolved alongside the BDSM/fetish fashion scene, which has always been populated by sex workers, so why is everyone being such a prude these days? We chat about our own journeys as gothic sluts, how free sexuality is integral to the goth ideology, how goth men are never under the same scrutiny as women in the sub culture, and our thoughts about the commodification of identity in the adult industry under capitalism. References include Razor Candi, Suicide Girls, Burning Angel, Brad Troemel, and of course, the infamous Goth House.

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Over on my Patreon, I have a special tier exclusively for HATER episodes! At this tier you get review episodes, topic episodes, and hater episodes! As well as my entire back catalogue of bonus episodes spanning the last six years. Such a deal! Here is a preview of my latest hater episode. Sign up at patreon.com/girlsgutsgiallo for the full experience.

Girl, you are so psychosexual esoteric secretary Ethel Cain. Did that make you want to stab yourself in the eye with a fork? Us, too! Body horror drag queen Mx. Ology joins me for a special hater episode dragging the currently popular "weird girl" marketing content trend wherein creators make starter packs for the esoteric baddie. What the hell does that even mean and why do we hate it? We rant about the flattening and gentrification of subversive art and subculture and why we think it is sinister and capitalistic!

Happy Pride to perverts only!
Back when I first started this show, I released an episode on William Friedkin's controversial film based on the Mineshaft murders, Cruising. I have gained so much knowledge and experience since 2019! So to celebrate the season, it felt appropriate to revisit this classic piece of leather history. I am joined by Andy Campbell (author of Bound Together) and Morgan Woolsey (who did her PhD on the soundtrack!) We work through our scene by scene analysis of Cruising, injecting history lessons about the leather scene, real life murders, infamous protests, incredible punk soundtrack, and more. This is one of my favorite episodes to date! I love when I get to go really deep and hard in it. It being the joys of cinema, of course.
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Society waits for you! Artist and filmmaker Ian Deleón joins me to talk about Brian Yuzna's body horror classic. We deep dive and do a scene by scene analysis of the film and discuss larger themes, like how sexual perversion has become coded as a decadent failure of the rich. We also link the film back to our current cultural moment and the recent release of the Epstein files and the ensuing moral panic.

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