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Christine Capetola

Writer. Professor. Cultural Programmer.

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Land of Talk and Loving During Crisis

August 4, 2020 By ccapetola

It was January 2007 and I needed a new band to grow up with.  Having returned to Philly from Sleater-Kinney’s “last” show in Portland, OR only five months previously, I was now left with a new (in name, at least) … Read the rest

Filed Under: feelings, feminism, romanticism Tagged With: Indinstinct Conversations, Land of Talk

Austra and the Politics of Pleasure (Under Quarantine)

May 17, 2020 By ccapetola

Austra’s Feel It Break roared into my life in May 2011, during what turned out to be a second moment of major transition in my adult life.  Having crossed the three-year mark in my first romantic relationship and realizing that … Read the rest

Filed Under: feminism, queerness, synthpop Tagged With: Austra, Feel It Break, HiRuDiN

Sleater-Kinney and the Space of Queer/Female Friendship

November 25, 2019 By ccapetola

This post was originally going to be called “What It Means to Listen to Sleater-Kinney Now as a Queer Woman.”  It was going to be a talk-back piece, one of those blog posts you write to insert yourself into a … Read the rest

Filed Under: feelings, feminism, intimacy, queerness Tagged With: Sleater-Kinney

U.S. Girls and the Politics of Feminist Art

April 28, 2019 By ccapetola

When I saw U.S. Girls for the first time at SXSW last year, it nothing short of changed my life.  It was the last day of my last anticipated SXSW and I was standing in the basking 5pm sun in … Read the rest

Filed Under: America, feminism, intimacy Tagged With: Polaris Music Prize, U.S. Girls

Fever Ray, FKA twigs, and (Queer) Intimacy

May 29, 2018 By ccapetola

May 12, 2018. I’m back in Brooklyn.  More specifically, I’m back at Brooklyn Hangar in Sunset Park for another show during Red Bull Music Academy’s annual May residency in NYC.  When I was living in Brooklyn from the fall of … Read the rest

Filed Under: feminism, intimacy, queerness Tagged With: Fever Ray, RBMA 2018

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