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Mar 14, 2025 | anothermag.com | Xuanlin Tham |TextXuanlin Tham

Drawing examples from recent films like Babygirl, Passages and How to Have Sex, Xuanlin Tham makes a case for the enduring importance of the sex scene The sex scene is statistically disappearing from our screens, in parallel with the rise of increasingly commonplace anti-sex scene sentiment. This is a political phenomenon inextricable from our widespread immiseration and violence under late capitalism – one which illuminates the borders of what we are allowed to feel and experience today.

Nov 17, 2023 | anothermag.com | Xuanlin Tham |TextXuanlin Tham

Carol director Todd Haynes delves into his tale of artifice and performance – loosely inspired by Mary Kay Letourneau – and the ”astonishingly nuanced” performances of Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman There is an unforgettable scene in the first few minutes of Todd Haynes’ May December, one you can imagine being clipped to hell and back on Twitter to a reverent online chorus of “she’s mothering” – but it is bone-chillingly prescient.

Aug 4, 2023 | anothermag.com | Xuanlin Tham |TextXuanlin Tham

Inspired by her own transition, D Smith’s Kokomo City is a probing portrait of four Black trans women and sex workers in New York and Georgia. Here, she talks about why trans women are “extremely special”August 04, 2023 Braiding together the conversations of four Black trans women and sex workers in New York and Georgia, Kokomo Citycouldn’t be further away from the talking head documentary’s connotations of staid immobility.