Madwomen & Muses
by Angelica Jade Bastiénin 🎭️ Culture
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Madwomen & Muses
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This is a newsletter about culture, cinema history, anime, and surviving with mental illness from the perspective of a black Southern gentlewoman. For the yearners, the lovers, and the mad.
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About Angelica Jade Bastién
Critic at New York Magazine. A Southern Broad and madwoman with a love for classic Hollywood and global cinema, comic books, anime, Creole cooking, and living life full tilt toward pleasure.
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