Fiona Duncan

  • The Radical 80s Film That Predicted Today's Political Clusterfuck

    In 1983, director Lizzie Borden took $40,000 and a group of diverse women to make the cult feminist dystopia "Born in Flames" about racism, sexism, and the socialist revolution. We sat down with the filmmaker to talk about how much has changed—and hasn...

  • Owning Your Ugly at the Prettiest Place on Earth, Sephora

    I met up with Arabelle Sicardi and Tayler Smith, a makeup artist and photographer duo, at Sephora to talk about their latest series Most Important Ugly. The portrait makeup series is like wearing your heart on your sleeve, except on your face.

  • Colin Self Is the Embodiment of Queer Theory

    On the afternoon I met Colin Self, he didn’t feel like wearing lipstick. He put it on and then wiped it off, staining his rosebud mouth. Wigs didn’t suit his mood either. He dressed, instead, in plain muslin overalls for the house tour and a Thierry...

  • Learning How to Have Sex Like a Gay Man

    For years, my best women friends and I have bemoaned our inability to bang like our gay male peers, who seemed to practice an ideal of free love we longed for, full of equal opportunity objectification, elective nonmonogamy, and communal acceptance.