A supernatural thriller takes on the fusion of domesticity and codependency. Plus: 'single girl summer,' the gender politics of UFC, and more in the weekend roundup.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more I’m an independent writer with over 16 years of experience as a journalist. This newsletter lets me do important work that I can’t do anywhere else, but I can only do it with your support. My weekly essays are always free, but paid subscribers get full access to my carefully curated Sunday link roundups, which I think of as a way to track our culture through the lens of gender, sex, love, and feminism. It’s $5 a month and every subscription makes a difference. Upgrade Intimacy is body horror A supernatural thriller takes on the fusion of domesticity and codependency. Plus: 'single girl summer,' the gender politics of UFC, and more in the weekend roundup. Tracy Clark-Flory May 4 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   Alison Brie in Together. Screenshot: YouTube. Happy Sunday! We’ve got heterosexuality as a body-horror flick, HAIM calling it quits on relationships, the so-called “MAGA body,” and more in this week’s roundup. To the links… Alison Brie and Dave Franco, a real-life couple, are starring in a new body-horror film and, wow, is it ripe for analysis. Without giving too much away, some supernatural shit happens and these two people—already on the rocks as a couple—end up literally fused together. A metaphor for domesticity, codependency, the coercions of the traditional romantic fantasy, perhaps? Word is there is also a very shocking sex scene that involves them getting temporarily stuck together. In preparation, we should all probably read Barbara Creed’s feminist film-theory classic, The Monstrous Feminine, which argues that “the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.” ... Subscribe to TCF Emails to unlock the rest. Become a paying subscriber of TCF Emails to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: Paid + public posts The full archive The ability to comment   Like Comment Restack   © 2025 Tracy Clark-Flory 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe