Grace Lavery

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I am a writer and academic living in Berkeley, California. I'm trans af and I enjoy fancy smells. 

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Cover Photo: a still of three "femmebots" from the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Theses on ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery’

The decline from mascbot into mere mascot is that which transmasculinity resists. And it is the challenge that “the Austin Powers type” encounters, too.

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Grace Lavery
Oct 17, 2019
Columns | Lurid Speculations
Cover Photo: Scene from 'Clueless'/Paramount Pictures
The Menacing, Exuberant Cluelessness of ‘Clueless’

I am not the first viewer of this movie to see it as essentially apocalyptic.

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Grace Lavery
Jul 10, 2019
Columns | Lurid Speculations
Cover Photo: Scene from 'Mars Attacks!'/Tim Burton Productions, Warner Bros.
Women Are from Mars Attacks!

The world of this movie is a world in which transness is not the exception but the rule.

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Grace Lavery
Jun 11, 2019
Columns | Lurid Speculations
Cover Photo: Scene from ‘Notting Hill’/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films
Watching ‘Notting Hill’ and Wanting to Be Julia

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to overlook certain aspects of her appearance.

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Grace Lavery
May 07, 2019
Columns | Lurid Speculations