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Beatrix Kondo

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Rio de Janeiro
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o incrível mundo de bea | Substack

o incrível mundo de bea | Substack

Substack — Sou Beatrix Kondo. Evoluí que nem Digimon: de tradutora level 1 para boss final de uma quest de 30+ anos destrinchando plot holes e problemáticas de gênero na cultura pop. Especialidade? Estragar finais felizes apontando red flags. Click to read o incrível mundo de bea, a Substack publication. Launched 19 days ago.
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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"

The Wild Hunt — Beatrix Kondo examines Witch Hat Atelier, a manga and anime set in a world where magic is a craft that can be learned by anyone but has been carefully suppressed as "something you have to be born with" - and what that premise might say to modern Witches.
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Caged and Dissected: The Witch Hunt Politics of "Thorn Season"

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

The Wild Hunt — "'Shadow and Bone meets The Selection,'" the marketing promises, banking on glittering courts and will-they-won't-they tension," writes Beatrix Kondo in her analysis of the romantasy sensation. "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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The Rule Nobody Questions

The Rule Nobody Questions

The Wild Hunt — Beatrix Kondo examines gender, power, and the lines drawn in Lee Knox Ostertag's 2017 graphic novel "The Witch Boy."
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The Witch Who Was Always Near

The Witch Who Was Always Near

The Wild Hunt — "A story set in Near becomes a mirror," writes Beatrix Kondo, exploring folklore, fear, and the familiar stranger in V.E. Schwab's novel "The Near Witch." "What the mirror reflects is a community organized around the strategic management of its own fear."
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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...

Unwinnable — 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

mothership.blog — 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

mothership.blog — 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...

mothership.blog — 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

mothership.blog — 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

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

mothership.blog — 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"

The Wild Hunt — "Contemporary reclamations of 'witch' as feminist identity tend toward celebration," writes Beatrix Kondo, "which Atwood declines. What she offers instead is something harder and more useful: these practices functioned as survival apparatus for populations the official world refused to protect."
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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

The Wild Hunt — "This is a grimoire," writes Beatrix Kondo. "You must learn which extracts do what, which acids exfoliate, which peptides build collagen, which ferments penetrate deepest. You must study. You must practice. You must have faith."
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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

www.medusarising.org — Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Magic Girl, Disposable Girl, male imaginary, Sacrificial Lamb, sacrificial lamb economy, Barb, Eleven, Millie Bobby Brown, The Duffer Brothers, Jessica Jones, Sailor Moon, Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cardacptor Sakura, The Owl, Medusa, feminist, pop culture critique, feminist critique of Stranger Things, radfem, male show runners
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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...

medusarising.org — Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Magic Girl, Disposable Gril, male imaginary, Sacrificial Lamb, sacrificial lamb economy, Robin, Vicki, Will, Steve, The Duffer Brothers, manic pixie dream girl, Korra, Asami, Glee, Brittany, Santana, Buffy, Medusa, feminist, pop culture critique, feminist critique of Stranger Things, radfem, male show runners
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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...

medusarising.org — Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Season 5, Max Mayfield, Nancy Wheeler, Dr Kay, Sarah Connor, Linda Hamilton, Natalia Dyer, Sadie Sink, comatose woman motif, Duffer Brothers, female ambition, women's ambition, sexist demotion, patriarchal reversal, women's power, finding yourself, Kate Bush, Running Up That Hill, Male Gaze, Sacrifical Lamb, Sex and the City, The Terminator, @gorgons@medusarising.org
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Karen "Fucking" Wheeler | by Beatrix Kondo

Karen "Fucking" Wheeler | by Beatrix Kondo

medusarising.org — Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Karen Wheeler, Joyce Byers, tradwife, femininity, patriarchal femininity, nonconformist, fierce, working class, mamma bear, maternal instinct, Nancy, Barb, Eleven, Max, Robin, 1980s nostalgia, suburban mom, housewife, Duffer Brothers, Cara Buono, radfem, RadMatFem, Medusa, Medusa Rising
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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

medusarising.org — Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Duffer Brothers, StrangerThings5, Season 5, fridging, narrative punishment, sacrificial lamb economy, narrative economies, feminist media criticism, 11, Eleven, Nancy, Stranger Things fan art, Barb, audience contract, artistic credibility, doing the least, men doing the least, radfem, radmatfem, Medusa, Medusa Rising
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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

medusarising.org — Beatrix Kondo, Stranger Things, Season 5, finale, Sacrificial Lamb economy, magical girl, fat girl, strong girl, smart girl, disposable girls, Barb, Max, Nancy, Karen, Robin, Eleven, Joyce, Heroine's Journey, fanfic, stranger things fanfic, An Archive of Our Own, women's stories, feminist storytelling, rad fem, radmatfem, Medusa, 1980s, Hawkins, Duffer Brothers
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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

horrormovieblog.com — 'Dear X' gives us an unexpected final girl and we love to see it. Check out Beatrix Kondo has to say about this gripping series.
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From Piltover with love: Arcane's game-changing queer narrative

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

Soap Central — When Arcane kicked down the doors of animation, it didn't just bring League of Legends to life on screen. It rewrote the rulebook for LGBTQ+ storytelling.
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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

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