Madwomen & Muses
by Angelica Jade BastiénMadwomen & 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 and essayist at New York Magazine. Living full tilt toward pleasure.
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