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Beatrix Kondo

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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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The Aesthetics of Impermanence: How Frieren Visualizes Untranslatable Japanese Philosophy - Unwin...

The Aesthetics of Impermanence: How Frieren Visualizes Untranslatable Japanese Philosophy - Unwin...

What if we honored the space between things as much as the things themselves?

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Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 1: The cult, the witch, the burning girl

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 1: The cult, the witch, the burning girl

When horror speaks in code

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Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 2: Rose and the mother who won't reconcile

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 2: Rose and the mother who won't reconcile

The 2006 Silent Hill film adapted the first game, but made its protagonist a mother, not a father

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Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 3: Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland, and the murder no one c...

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 3: Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland, and the murder no one c...

You cannot observe Silent Hill 2's villain from a safe distance

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Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 4: Silent Hill f and the system that was always the monster

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 4: Silent Hill f and the system that was always the monster

When the pattern becomes undeniable

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Feminine Panic: Who Gets to Own Masculine Narratives? - Unwinnable

Feminine Panic: Who Gets to Own Masculine Narratives? - Unwinnable

The panic serves control, not preservation.

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The monster was right: How Doki Doki Literature Club exposes dating sims... punish female autonomy

The monster was right: How Doki Doki Literature Club exposes dating sims... punish female autonomy

How Doki Doki Literature Club exposes dating sims as systems that punish female autonomy

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Beyond "Was She Really a Witch?": Revisiting Margaret Atwood's "My Evil Mother"

Beyond "Was She Really a Witch?": Revisiting Margaret Atwood's "My Evil Mother"

"Contemporary reclamations of 'witch' as feminist identity tend toward celebration," writes Beatrix Kondo, "w…

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Skincare as Sorcery: The Occult Economics of K-Beauty and Glass Skin Witchcraft

Skincare as Sorcery: The Occult Economics of K-Beauty and Glass Skin Witchcraft

"This is a grimoire," writes Beatrix Kondo. "You must learn which extracts do what, which acids exfoliate, wh…

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Upside Down Feminism - How Stranger Things Systematically Destroyed Its Women | by Beatrix Kondo

Upside Down Feminism - How Stranger Things Systematically Destroyed Its Women | by Beatrix Kondo

Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Magic Girl, Disposable Girl, male imaginary, Sacrificial Lamb, sacrificial la…

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The Manic Pixie Dream Gay Girl: How Robin's Sexuality Served Will's Coming-Out Arc, Then Got Disc...

The Manic Pixie Dream Gay Girl: How Robin's Sexuality Served Will's Coming-Out Arc, Then Got Disc...

Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Magic Girl, Disposable Gril, male imaginary, Sacrificial Lamb, sacrificial la…

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The Comatose Woman Plot Device and the Myth of Having It All (As Long As You Want Nothing) | by B...

The Comatose Woman Plot Device and the Myth of Having It All (As Long As You Want Nothing) | by B...

Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Season 5, Max Mayfield, Nancy Wheeler, Dr Kay, Sarah Connor, Linda Hamilton, …

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Karen "Fucking" Wheeler | by Beatrix Kondo

Karen "Fucking" Wheeler | by Beatrix Kondo

Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Karen Wheeler, Joyce Byers, tradwife, femininity, patriarchal femininity, non…

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The Duffer Brothers' Reckoning: When Audiences Stop Accepting "We Tried" | by Beatrix Kondo

The Duffer Brothers' Reckoning: When Audiences Stop Accepting "We Tried" | by Beatrix Kondo

Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Duffer Brothers, StrangerThings5, Season 5, fridging, narrative punishment, s…

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What We Deserve: Reimagining Stranger Things' Women Beyond the Duffers' Vision | by Beatrix Kondo

What We Deserve: Reimagining Stranger Things' Women Beyond the Duffers' Vision | by Beatrix Kondo

Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Season 5, finale, Sacrificial Lamb economy, magical girl, fat girl, strong gi…

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How 'Dear X' Exposes the Appetite for Female Suffering - Horror Movie Blog

How 'Dear X' Exposes the Appetite for Female Suffering - Horror Movie Blog

'Dear X' gives us an unexpected final girl and we love to see it. Check out Beatrix Kondo has to say about th…

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From Piltover with love: Arcane's game-changing queer narrative

From Piltover with love: Arcane's game-changing queer narrative

When Arcane kicked down the doors of animation, it didn't just bring League of Legends to life on screen. It …

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Perfectly Imperfect Forgers: Why SPY X FAMILY's unique family dynamic is what we need in anime

Perfectly Imperfect Forgers: Why SPY X FAMILY's unique family dynamic is what we need in anime

Why the central family in SPY X FAMILY is both imperfect and perfect

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