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The Revival of the Witch as Muse by Tasmin Petrie

In celebration of Samhain and the blurring of the boundary between us and the spirit world, Tasmin explores the witch figures in a...

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The Kaleidoscopic Self Part II: 'Disavowals' by Claude Cahun (1930)

By Brianna Mullin “It is very difficult to present these pages,” writes Pierre Mac Orlan in the introduction to Disavowals (Aveux non...

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'The Kaleidoscopic Self,' a three-part series by Brianna Mullin

Brianna's three part series begins with an exploration of Frida Kahlo's diary, interjecting a feminist perspective on the autobiography.

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‘Strange Phenomena’: Tracing Surreal Feline Metamorphosis between Kate Bush, Fini &Deren.

Though never self-defining as a surrealist, Bush holds avant-garde poetics and surrealist sensibilities..

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Vegetation, Creativity, Confession and Androgyny within female surrealists and their legacies

Written by Co-editor Molly Gilroy “Whether human, animal or plant, she could not be called a ‘person’, but then she wasn’t exactly a...