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Beatrix Kondo

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Beatrix Kondo’s Biography

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Beatrix Kondo evolved like a Digimon: from level-1 translator to final boss of a 30+ year quest dismantling plot holes and gender issues in pop culture. She writes about K-dramas, anime, and everything Asia produces (the good and the questionable) for international outlets. Her specialty is ruining happy endings by pointing out red flags and finding feminism in dungeons where patriarchy thought it was safe.

A lifelong horror devotee, she's burned through the Western canon so thoroughly that she…

Beatrix Kondo’s Journalist Portfolio

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o incrível mundo de bea | Substack

o incrível mundo de bea | Substack

Sou Beatrix Kondo. Evoluí que nem Digimon: de tradutora level 1 para boss final de uma quest de 30+ anos dest…

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Beatrix Kondo

Beatrix Kondo

Beatrix Kondo is a @SoapCentral. Catch all the coverage from Beatrix Kondo and subscribe for future articles …

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The Ink Has Always Been There: the Grammar of Exclusion in "Witch Hat Atelier"

The Ink Has Always Been There: the Grammar of Exclusion in "Witch Hat Atelier"

Beatrix Kondo examines Witch Hat Atelier, a manga and anime set in a world where magic is a craft that can be…

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Caged and Dissected: The Witch Hunt Politics of "Thorn Season"

Caged and Dissected: The Witch Hunt Politics of "Thorn Season"

"'Shadow and Bone meets The Selection,'" the marketing promises, banking on glittering courts and will-they-w…

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The Rule Nobody Questions

The Rule Nobody Questions

Beatrix Kondo examines gender, power, and the lines drawn in Lee Knox Ostertag's 2017 graphic novel "The Witc…

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The Witch Who Was Always Near

The Witch Who Was Always Near

"A story set in Near becomes a mirror," writes Beatrix Kondo, exploring folklore, fear, and the familiar stra…

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Articles

The First Spell Is Silence: The Pagan Question of Withheld Knowledge

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By Beatrix Kondo
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For the last three columns I have been walking around the same building and entering through different doors—and if you have been tracking them, you have stumbled into this building with me. Whether you’re just reading this text here and now, or you have read the three essays before this one, I hereby invite you to follow my lead. I did not plan it that way, though. At least, not at first. I wrote about Witch Hat Atelier because Kamome Shirahama draws as though the line itself were the spell.
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The Ink Has Always Been There: the Grammar of Exclusion in “Witch Hat Atelier”

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By Beatrix Kondo
| The Wild Hunt Verified
There is a particular kind of lie that does not announce itself as such. It settles into the world as common sense—repeating itself until it becomes a part of the very fabric of reality—and trains those it harms to locate the problem inside themselves, to believe that the wall they keep running into is actually a mirror.
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Caged and Dissected: The Witch Hunt Politics of “Thorn Season”

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By Beatrix Kondo
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Thorn Season, by Kiera Azar, arrived in bookstores packaged as romantasy. “Shadow and Bone meets The Selection,” the marketing promises, banking on glittering courts and will-they-won’t-they tension. What the book actually delivers is something else entirely—the first chapters of a feminist high fantasy saga with a queer and Pagan reading.
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