Eli Cugini

3 weeks ago | lwlies.com | Eli Cugini

About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.

1 month ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Eli Cugini

On 16 April, the UK Supreme Court judged that ‘sex’, in the Equality Act (2010), refers to ‘biological sex’, which they define as ‘the sex of a person at birth’. This has been welcomed by many journalists and politicians as clarifying, as providing necessary clarity: despite it being a highly specific and vexed judgment, it has been treated as an official state announcement that trans women are men and trans men are women.

2 months 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.

Feb 17, 2025 | 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.

Feb 14, 2025 | 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.