@trishbendix

writer

 L.A.
litfemme.substack.com
Joined August 2007
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Wrote about this very thing on my Substack this morning litfemme.substack.com/p/from…
Vulture
@vulture9 Jul 2025
JoJo Siwa and Ethel Cain are both reimagining Kim Carnes’s ode to queer longing, ‘Bette Davis Eyes.’ But while Cain updates the track, tradwife Siwa drags it back into the closet. vulture.com/article/jojo-siw…

A 44-Year Old Song Is the Queer Anthem of the Summer

When it comes to “Bette Davis Eyes,” Ethel Cain is the better. JoJo Siwa is the worse.

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Founded in 1972, Jewel’s Catch One was one of the first, if not the first, Black-owned discos in the country and a safe haven for Black and LGBTQ people in L.A. Watch a newly available #InTheLife interview with its founder, Jewel Thais-Williams: youtu.be/CkpUKNfDLgg #Pride
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Chii Chii 🪭
@officialdoechii9 Jun 2025
im that bitch cus I mf SAID SO
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B-Sides@BSidesTV31 Jan 2025
St. Vincent on lead with the Pat, Krist and Dave from Nirvana performing "Breed" at the FireAid benefit concert in Los Angeles
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". . . how a tiny magazine run by a lesbian couple from the American Midwest came to publish some of the most innovative writing produced across Europe and the US between 1914 and 1929." @francescawade on THE LITTLE REVIEW nybooks.com/articles/2024/12…

‘Insouciant Pagan Journal’ | Francesca Wade

The brief but daring life of The Little Review, founded by Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, was an initiation of American letters into the twentieth-century avant-garde.

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Diary entires by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, as adapted by E.A. Bethea, part of a 10 page story on Zwerling by Bethea for CREASE, an anthology of adaptations of transgressive literature---coming soon (we swear) from Domino. Link to pre-order here: dominobooks.org/crease.html
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Granta
@GrantaMag24 Oct 2024
Granta mourns the great Gary Indiana. We unlock his last piece for us, and will publish the fiction he was working on in our Spring issue. granta.com/five-oclock-somew…

Five O’Clock Somewhere | Gary Indiana | Granta

‘It happens when you realize that your legs are no good anymore. They won’t carry you far before they hurt.’

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Albert in the streets, Alberta in the sheets...
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she really hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and her cardigan
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In "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage" @masiasare explores the cultural linage of icons like Ma Rainey, Eartha Kitt, and Bessie Smith. Read the intro at ow.ly/Fik450SW3Px
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For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about the brilliant Joanna Russ and her extremely gay realist novel, recently reissued by @FeministPress: theatlantic.com/books/archiv…

When Realism Is More Powerful Than Science Fiction

In "On Strike Against God," Joanna Russ imagined a freer world while confronting its inequities head-on.

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A reminder of how Anne Sexton quietly destroys us:
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push me over intermission in 3 days… marenmorris.lnk.to/Intermiss…
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Nostos
@NostosLit28 Jul 2024
from the diary of virginia woolf
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such a pleasure to work with Mary Gaitskill on this strange essay, and to see how she expresses uncanny and unknowable things with such clear prose (available to read for free right now) granta.com/pneuma-illusion/

The Pneuma Illusion | Mary Gaitksill | Granta

‘The intensity of it seemed in retrospect something inexplicable, like a sudden opening in the sky with an outpouring of visions.’ Mary Gaitskill on her experiences with Pneuma therapy.

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ty @trishbendix (& chloe caldwell) 💘
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Liz@schlockvalue16 Jul 2024
Back at IFC Center next Monday for a rare screening of these two 90s dyke porn classics, with producer / On Our Backs magazine cofounder Nan Kinney in attendance ifccenter.com/films/suburban…
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49 years ago today, Labelle became the FIRST Black vocal group to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone. 🔥
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