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Eli Cugini

Belfast, Manče, Osh

Journalist and Critic at Freelance

media & culture writer, prettyboy | writing @thebafflermag @dazed @gaytimes &c | autofiction phd student @UoMSALC | only connect runner-up | he/they

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Articles

  • TERFs, SWERFs and girlbosses: What do we do with ‘bad’ feminists?

    1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Eli Cugini

    Sophie Lewis’s latest book Enemy Feminisms faces up to the ugly offshoots of the feminist movement The 2010s and 2020s have proven a vital, scary, and embattled period for feminism, full of both hard-fought gains and terrifying backlashes. They have also included a lot of useful criticism about what feminism should look like: criticisms of white feminism, middle-class feminism, feminisms against trans people and sex workers, corporate and consumerist feminism, and ‘girlboss’ culture.

  • Bisexual Season

    2 months ago | mid-theory.com | Eli Cugini |Ryan Lackey

    For a queer text to be narratively useful to queer people—to be indulgent, excessive, leaky—perhaps it needs to be discarded by someone else first. Popular dating shows are brutal factories of narrative, designed to make their contestants narratively useful through a mixture of incentive, isolation, coercion and selective editing.

  • Elisa Rae Shupe appears to have died by suicide.

    2 months ago | eliacugini.medium.com | Eli Cugini

    Eli Cugini·Follow5 min read·--Substack user and queer veteran zerodoesntsleep has reported that an unnamed suicide victim, whose body was discovered at the Syracuse VA Medical Center on January 27, has been privately identified as Elisa Rae Shupe by an anonymous recipient of Shupe’s suicide note. The deceased had reportedly wrapped herself in a trans flag.

  • Why is Emilia Pérez so polarising?

    2 months ago | dazeddigital.com | Eli Cugini

    The film has earned the most Academy Award nominations of any non-English-language film in history – but it has drawn intense criticism from both Mexican and trans critics6 Images This Oscars season the film on everybody’s lips is Netflix’s musical crime drama Emilia Pérez – for both good and bad reasons.

  • Bonnie Blue, Lily Phillips and the tabloidification of sex work

    Jan 20, 2025 | dazeddigital.com | Eli Cugini

    Last month, British OnlyFans performer Lily Phillips went viral for sleeping with 100 men in a day; this month, British OnlyFans performer Bonnie Blue has one-upped Phillips, claiming to have slept with 1,000 men ‘in 12 hours’.

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night gardener @uncanny_eli
22 Apr 25

imo a lot of contemporary hetero-optimist popular feminism really wants men to be feminists, but also really wants them to stop precisely at the point before the bounds of ‘doing manhood’ would become too blurry.

night gardener
night gardener @uncanny_eli
21 Apr 25

btw if i owe you correspondence or you are my Friend i will be more in touch after the next day or so. i got a Cold and also i went on a Plane with a Cold so i’m laid out sick and i can only hear at like 70% capacity https://t.co/VfMVdIzH74

night gardener
night gardener @uncanny_eli
21 Apr 25

RT @MaherShaba2001: Dear friends, unfortunately donations have stopped. I don’t know why, and unfortunately we are in dire need of your hel…