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Brit Wigintton

The undying, unfiltered debauchery of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”

Gathered on the carpet outside a movie theater are Kristin’s castmates, their bodies stretched out among set-pieces, suitcases full of costumes and props, their language peppered with equal parts exuberance and expletives. This is Kristin’s makeshift dressing room: she balances a lighted, three-paneled mirror on a plastic folding chair, her half-costumed body perched before it. Tonight, she is portraying a corset-and-fishnet-wearing mad scientist called Dr. Frank-N-Furter....
CULTUREPerformance

Fiber Artist Aubrey Longley-Cook & the Queer Gaze

In the backyard of a Hollywood bungalow sits a garage that’s been converted into a studio. Inside, a revised definition of queer art is tested by way of needle and thread. Beside the workstation sits a vintage triple-cassette boombox that plays mixtapes containing everything from Bat for Lashes to Enya to Animal Collective. Thoughtfully laid out along the opposite side of the raised rectangular table is a makeup wipe bearing the remnants of a drag queen’s face – pink, glitter lipstick and shimmering bronzer – next to a single, claw-like rhinestone-studded press-on nail. Both are love tokens once given to Los Angeles artist Aubrey Longley-Cook courtesy of two Atlanta drag queens, Brigitte Bidet and Biqtch Puddin’, both of whom have made this house their transient home over the past month....
Los AngelesVISUAL ART

Sundance Sparks Hope for Women in Film

The Sundance Film Festival attracts critics, distributors, celebrity-sightseers, and movie-lovers alike to the snowy locale of Park City, UT for 10 days in January. The intimate loveliness of Park City seems picturesque and unassuming but the films that premiere here often become Oscar winners. “Call Me By Your Name” and “Get Out” were among last year’s programming. But for this year’s festival, which ran from January 18th to 28th, a number stood out: 37% of the films were directed by women. Although this statistic is nowhere near where it should be in 2018, it remains the highest percentage of women-directed films ever to be programmed at Sundance....
FILM & TVREVIEWS

An Evening at The Peppermint Club with Rainsford

Rainey Qualley is many things: Andie MacDowell’s oldest daughter, part time actress-slash-model, an admitted introvert. She’s even dabbled in directing this year, alongside her younger sister, Margaret (whom you may know from The Leftovers or the Sundance darling, Novitiate) on the music video for her song, “Rendezvous”. But on this mid-December Tuesday evening, she’s Rainsford, a genre-bending siren about to take the stage for her first public performance....
Los AngelesMUSIC

Who is Terror Jr?

One part guilty pleasure electro-pop and one part raw emotion, Terror Jr’s latest release, Bop 3: The Girl Who Cried Purple, continues to not only maintain but exceed expectations for those who have been following the artist since their first single. After being teased for a few days via the group’s social media pages with the album’s cover image of a forlorn-looking blonde crying grape soda-like tears into a pair of waiting glasses, the album dropped last Friday, September 29th....
MUSIC

Brit Wigintton

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Brit recently received her undergraduate degree in Film & Television Production from Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. As a biracial woman herself, she is constantly inspired by feminism and the representation of minorities in the media and what she can do to influence it. When not on campus, she can be found at an Atlanta Drag show, wandering Disneyland, or making music videos with her friends.