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RIP
It's a national nightmare that we have to live through this as song of the summer twice (kidding, I do like this song)
Congrats to Chloe Malle, who has been named the new editor in chief of Vogue!
We're down bad www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
A roundup of links for the month from @jillfilipovic.bsky.social @slate.com @svershbow.bsky.social @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social @kristenklopez.bsky.social @jawnita.bsky.social @themeteor.bsky.social @stephwrestling.bsky.social @theatlantic.com @msnbc.com scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/the-month-...
Book 137: The House of Beauty by @arabellesicardi.bsky.social
Book 136: Crushmore by Penn Badgley, Sophie Ansari & Nava Kavelin
"I'm working on an expanded edition of The Secret Lives of Colour. There are things that really fascinate people about colour that I wanted to put into the introduction"âKassia St. Clair scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
"Itâs really hard to pick just one [favourite Liberty print], but I often say the extended Betsy print... Thereâs so much scope just within that one print."âKassia St. Clair scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
"All books have their challenges, but this does feel lighter [than my previous books]. It looks great, the prints do a lot of the talking themselves. So in terms of my own psychology and work flow, it came at a really good time."âKassia St. Clair scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
"Liberty has thought about their own prints quite hard & tried to pin down what it is that makes a print unique. Theyâve sorted that into around a dozen major themes, which every print can fit into. Those design pillars became the chapters for the book" scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
Liberty is really good at preserving their history and archives. They have a massive textile archive thatâs around 60,000 items strong, and growing exponentially each year."âKassia St Clair scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
"The subject matter is perfect for me. I was born & grew up in London so Liberty is very much a part of my world. I dressed in Liberty print dresses when I was little. It felt personal and a job that I really wanted to do."âKassia St Clair scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
Book 135: When We Were Brilliant by Lynn Cullen
"My previous books have all come from me... This one came out of the blue."âKassia St. Clair scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
âIt is a coffee-table book, so I am aware that there will be a lot of people who buy it to look at the pictures, but hopefully at some point theyâll read [my] wordsââKassia St Clair scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
I interviewed Kassia St. Clair about her new book, Liberty scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/it-took-a-...
Vinnie 3.0! www.thecut.com/article/samm...
One of the answers was spelled wrong | I just solved this @vulture.com Crossword in 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Can you beat my time? www.vulture.com/article/dail...
Happy pub day to @pennyzang.bsky.social!
Book 134: DILF by @judedoyle.bsky.social
I liked Honey Don't more than I thought I would and that's all thanks to Margaret Qualley. I would have watched her being a PI in a small town without all the side mysteries that hardly made sense nor had the audience invested www.salon.com/2025/08/23/h... via @colemanjspilde.bsky.social
I highly recommend folks go out and get a covid vaccine ASAP.
Someone buy my apartment as an investment property so I can continue to live here www.comptongreen.com.au/property?pro...
It's the 25th anniversary of Bring It On! I wrote about how it doesn't hold up until the Clovers show up for the 20th anniversary here capsule98.com/features/bri...
A TRANS WOMAN IS WORLD CHAMPION OF THE BIGGEST ALL-FEMALE PROMOTION IN THE WEST FUCK YES
Congratulations to Nyla Rose! We are sure Serpentico is severely depressed by this news, and Mercedes MonĂš is salivating! #aewfanhub #aew #wrestlesky #prowrestlingeve #prowrestling
Happy anniversary to all who celebrate!
Double breach!
Mama and baby humpback whales coming right up to the boat
Two week old humpback whale calf trying her best to breach
See thread
Motion sickness. My sister had a tactical spew (on me!) and felt better right away. My mum spent two hours hurling into a bag and another hour in the bathroom. Happy whale watching!
The calm before the storm* *a quarter of the approximately 100 people on board got sick, including two members of my family but unbelievably not me, pictured in the second photo terrified of the choppy seas
10 years since the best match of all time and Bayley & Mercedes Moné changed women's wrestling www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qA9...
Mercedes Mone Wins Discovery Wrestling Scottish Womenâs Championship, Collects Ninth Title
132: Where Are You Really From? by @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social
We're so back
Good for them
We got two poop-filled toilets on TV in a week
"Itâs almost miraculous that Curtis has the wherewithal and self-esteem to keep her actual face. Not only that, but she leans into parts that emphasise the grotesque, like in Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Last Showgirl" #FreakierFriday scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/freakier-f...
"What hope do regular women and girls have?! And what hope will Harper and Lilyâs daughters have in the inevitable threequel twenty years from now?" #FreakierFriday scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/freakier-f...
AUSTRALIA ZOO
"What hope is there for people of Julia Butters and Sophia Hammonsâ generations when surgically-altered, Botox-smoothed and filler-plumped faces are the norm?" #FreakierFriday scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/freakier-f...
"Lohan went from the freckly faced redhead in The Parent Trap to a fixture of the tabloids as her weight, her breasts, her face and her hair were picked apart by the masses. No wonder she moved to Dubai where the paparazzi is outlawed." #FreakierFriday scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/freakier-f...
Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."' variety.com/2025/film/fe...
"Curtis and Lohan kind of represent two ends of the spectrum of ageism and beauty in Hollywood. Curtis has been an outspoken critic of the pressures the industry puts on women to stay youthful, while her co-star Lohan has been a victim of these pressures." scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/freakier-f...
Book 131: Upstanding Young Man by Sharon Doering
"Just wait until Gen Z, with their 10-step skincare routines whoâve perceived themselves through front-facing lenses since birth, find themselves trapped in the decrepit body of their geriatric millennial mum!" #FreakierFriday scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/freakier-f...
I wrote about #FreakierFriday and our obsession with youth scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/freakier-f...
Hey, congrats!
Happy pub day to @elainehsiehchou.bsky.social!
âI think at some point weâre going to revalue these information curators that we trust and love because thereâs too much content to do it on our ownâ www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @latimes.com
âUntil celebrities are doing their at-home Glambots as good as I am on the red carpet, thereâs still job security!â www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @latimes.com
âIt wasnât until the 2020 awards season that I really dialed into what the behind-the-scenes content would be. Then the pandemic hit, so I was at home editing my footage and putting it on socials, and thatâs when it exploded.â www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @latimes.com
âPart of what people gravitate to with the Glambot is the candid [nature of it]. Thereâs a barrier that is broken down that people seem to enjoy.â www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @latimes.com
"Glambot is the ultimate short-form content, coming in at one second apiece, and helped pave the way for such successors." www.latimes.com/entertainmen... via @latimes.com
I interviewed Cole Walliser, director of the E! Glambot for @latimes.com Envelope! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
I interviewed Cole Walliser, director of the E! Glambot for @latimes.com Envelope! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
In lieu of a traditional recap of the finale of #AndJustLikeThat, I dropped some links to some freelance articles I wrote about it, as well as a podcast I recorded with @reshmag.bsky.social! Check it out! scarlettwoman.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...
And Just Like That breakdown (in more ways than one!) with @scarletteharris.bsky.social Listen here đ§ Describe the finale in one word - drop đ #AndJustLikeThat open.spotify.com/episode/7xb2...
I wrote about that here www.theringer.com/movies/2024/...
Book 130: The Man of Middling Height by @fadizaghmout.bsky.social
I can only watch foreign language films at the cinema for this reason
Itâs very sad seeing Australian cultural institutions tear themselves apart trying to prevent people from even talking about massacres and deliberate starvation
"As a fierce proponent of women choosing themselves instead of unsatisfying relationships, I am pleased that #AndJustLikeThat had the courage to let Carrie be single." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
"In the end, Carrie decides to publish her novel sans an epilogue that 'makes the reader feel good at the end'. Instead she writes, 'the woman realised she was not aloneâshe was on her own.'" #AndJustLikeThat missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
"Someone needs to tell the #AndJustLikeThat writers that Carrie and Seema on the beach in Greece is what two rich single ladies should be doing with their post-menopausal years instead of wallowing over marriage or bust." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
"If Carrie had dumped Aidan sooner, #AndJustLikeThat could have had a whole season to unpack the question Carrie poses at the top of this piece. Instead, itâs hastily split over the two-part finale." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
Book 129: Lin-Manuel Miranda - The Education of an Artist by @pollackpelzner.bsky.social
"Though 200 years removed from Jane Austenâs marriage plot, pop cultural representations of women almost always presented a romantic partnership with a man as the ultimate goal as to how a woman should 'end up.'" #AndJustLikeThat missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
"'In 1846? A woman alone at the end would be a tragedy.' What about 2004? When the original series ended in the mid-aughts, fans would have rioted if Carrie and Big werenât endgame" #AndJustLikeThat missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
No writers = no festival. Howâs that for the power of the pen?
Bookish in Bendigo have pulled out as Bendigo Writers Festival's bookseller - this principled move comes at great cost to them as an independent store. If you've been thinking of purchasing a book (esp. one by someone who's also pulled labour from BWF), consider going to them! +61 3 5406 0596
"Big's death in #AndJustLikeThat 's pilot freed Carrie up to be single in the city again. We got a glimpse of that, however she quickly coupled up with Aidan, a spectre over the better part of the show before their union mercifully imploded a few episodes ago" missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
"'How is a woman alone a tragedy?' asks Carrie Bradshaw in the penultimate episode of #AndJustLikeThat. Sheâs talking about the unnamed protagonist in her first foray into fiction, a historical novel set in 1846, but the parallels to her own life are clear." missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
I wrote about how #AndJustLikeThat had the courage to do what Sex & the City couldn't - let Carrie be single missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
I wrote about how #AndJustLikeThat had the courage to do what Sex & the City couldn't - let Carrie be single missingperspectives.com/posts/and-ju...
" #AndJustLikeThat will never get the chance to explore territory that might actually have been groundbreaking for TV." time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
Readers And Writers Against The Genocide have an open letter against Bendigo Writers Festival's dissent-silencing "Code of Conduct". You can sign the letter here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Happy pub day to @fadizaghmout.bsky.social!
"When the Sex and the City 2 movie is more radically open about menopause than #AndJustLikeThat, then you know youâve got a serious problem." time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
"Weâve never so much as glimpsed an estrogen patch or seen a bottle of lubricant on a bedside table in one of Harry and Charlotteâs plentiful bedroom scenes, or during Carrie and Duncanâs much anticipated tryst." #AndJustLikeThat time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
Well a Vogue cover star and Met co-chair would know. Looks like you had the best night!
"One canât help but smell a whiff of internalized ageism from the same production team for #AndJustLikeThat as the original show and movies, especially when other pop culture has absolutely gone there." time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
"So much of what transpires happens to these women instead of enabling them to be the drivers of their own stories. Weâre more privy to Harryâs bodily functions than anything having to do with Charlotte" #AndJustLikeThat time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
Wow! Bendigo Writers Festival (15 - 17 Aug) is making guest speakers sign a last-minute agreement to not mention Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Writers who care about human rights are cancelling. Any writer/guest still thinking of appearing should seriously reconsider. Stand up! Refuse to comply
" #AndJustLikeThat was mostly a missed opportunity to delve into [menopause, queer sex or abortion] for more than a passing mention, with much of the connective tissue seeming to take place in between episode" time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
"Instead of this very real dilemma, we got Charlotte experiencingâchecks notesâinexplicable vertigo and a 'loud and totally unnecessary renovation.'" #AndJustLikeThat time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
"'My husband had cancer and I wasnât allowed to say anything about it,' Charlotte lamented to an energy healer in a recent episode, which the show took as a topic sentence and ran with." #AndJustLikeThat time.com/7308453/and-... via @time.com
