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Willow Catelyn Maclay

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Film Essayist (MUBI, Polygon, etc). GALECA. Co-Author of CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TRANSNESS IN CINEMA (coming July 2024)

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I'm totally obsessed with this poster for EVA MAN. It was an Italian soft core film about a mad scientist attempting to create a sexual superhero who represented "both sexes". It starred Eva Robin's (Tenebre) and Ajita Wilson (Macumba Sexual). In the film, they share a t4t trans lesbian relationship

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corpses fools and monsters out this month 🤓☀️💦

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I'm totally obsessed with this poster for EVA MAN. It was an Italian soft core film about a mad scientist attempting to create a sexual superhero who represented "both sexes". It starred Eva Robin's (Tenebre) and Ajita Wilson (Macumba Sexual). In the film, they share a t4t trans lesbian relationship

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Special book signing & film screening will be on Thursday July 18th at Vidiots with Skylight Books. Doors open at 6pm for book signing, followed by a talk, a teleportation intro from @willowcatelyn.bsky.social, and the screening Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean around 7:30pm.

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One of these guys is soft. One is spiky.

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I / we need to stop acting like Trump has already won. Millions despise him.

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So I hoped to never do this again. My income will be 500 dollars less this month unexpectedly (stressfully I am now told this may happen “sometimes”) I’ve budgeted bills and essentials for the regular amount. If anyone is able to spare a couple bucks to help bridge the gap my venmo is @oniram48

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It is entirely Willow's fault that I'm currently watching Hellraiser. It can be her fault you watch it too.

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You want your MTV? ⬇️

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Which is captivating because genre cinema is structuralist by nature. So, by breaking that structure, it's post-modern and exploits its signifiers and the expectations of the viewer keeping them off balance. It's a brilliant work.

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I love POINT BLANK because the act of watching it feels like you're trying to remember something, but it won't totally cohere. Like the way you'll try to piece together specific details of a memory, but they're gone. The film has a deliberately broken structure.

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I love Albert Finney in this movie. I wrote about his performance ages ago, and it's a favorite.

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Getting excited for Longlegs. I just like Nic Cage. I think he's neat.

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Liz is the best 💜 Excited to be on here with you!

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TORONTO, CANADA PARADISE THEATER JULY 28TH GINGER SNAPS CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS CANADIAN LAUNCH. Come out and say hi to your girl, I'll be introducing the film with Caden and signing books after.

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Reloading the Woj feed, reloading my emails, sending texts, making posts to build the hype, trying to keep the cat from pulling the television down on himself. I am working overtime

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TORONTO, CANADA PARADISE THEATER JULY 28TH GINGER SNAPS CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS CANADIAN LAUNCH. Come out and say hi to your girl, I'll be introducing the film with Caden and signing books after.

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Caden and I were interviewed by Seattle Gay News about our upcoming book Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema.

www.sgn.org/story.php?ch...

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Some of My Best Friends Are... is airing on TCM tonight in the wee hours of the morning. It's a major underseen queer film featuring Candy Darling in a prominent dramatic role. We covered it extensively in our book along with numerous other films involving Candy, Holly Woodlawn, and Jackie Curtis.

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Spoke with CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS authors Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner for this week’s Seattle Gay News. Excited to share this with everyone. What a terrific and fun conversation.

www.sgn.org/story.php?ch...

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Caden and I were interviewed by Seattle Gay News about our upcoming book Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema.

www.sgn.org/story.php?ch...

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But I did say transsexual numerous times 🩵

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The Muppets transcend gender. They were assigned Muppet at Birth.

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If this landlord doesn’t understand how arts funding works- his behavior with the board indicates that- then I don’t think he should really be in this position to destroy an arts institution that from all appearances is a major Toronto metro hub.

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Show them that you care about preserving film culture in Toronto.

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Gonna watch some Criterion Channel leaving soon movies today. Just watched Lam Ngai Kai's THE CAT (1992). S Tier movie cat. Lovely oddity. The Sailor Moon chic of an alien girl and her cat clashing up against gonzo Hong Kong riffing on Stuart Gordon goreplosions with a dash of John Woo gunnery.

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There is a Cat vs Dog fight scene with the insane choreography and violence you would expect from the best of HK action cinema of the 80s and 90s but with a cat and dog, countless cuts alternating between shots of real cat and dog, puppet cat and dog, animatronic cat and dog, stopmotion cat and dog

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This movie is occasionally the greatest film of all time.

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Sorry I didn't post this before I was on but Willow and I were interviewed on WNYC talking about the book. Will link once it is up.

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