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‘The Dilemma of Desire’ Champions the Clit — dCFF20
June 15, 2020

In one scene of Maria Finitzo’s The Dilemma of Desire, Dr. Stacey Dutton examines three contemporary biology textbooks. Two of them make no visual reference to female genitalia, whereas the outlier provides a single, external diagram. Dutton finds it…

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‘GetAWAY’ Knows The Slasher Genre Well Without Digging Too Deep – dCFF20
June 15, 2020

With a subgenre like the slasher, it’s especially hard to do anything new, one because just about every plot twist under the sun has been done already, and two, because several of the subgenre’s hallmarks are, for lack of a better term, not very “woke.” Many of…

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