Hi, all! I’m Sarah Fonseca, Bitch Flicks’ humble intern for spring 2012. Navigating the good, bad, and ugly of cinema with you is definitely going to be a riot, not to mention a privilege.
I’m a would-be journalist-turned-nonfictionist attending Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, a relatively podunk college town 50 miles north of Savannah.
Given that Statesboro really is as captivating as it seems, I have plenty of time to binge on (and occasionally boo at) cinema.
My 90s kid sensibilities dominate my tastes in film as much as my queer and feminist ones do. Boyz N the Hood, Silence of the Lambs, Dead Poets Society, The Birdcage, Aimee and Jaguar, Ken Park, Kids, Gia, and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil all hold special places in my heart.
More recently, Bridesmaids, Mona Lisa Smile, Sunshine Cleaning, and Black Swan have also carved out special places of their own.
There is a full chamber reserved for Pariah, provided that I can find a screening of it within 200 miles of here within the next century.
I’m also a lover of well-thought documentaries such as Prodigal Sons, Edie and Thea, Southern Comfort, and Paris is Burning.
My TV pretty much doubles as a footstool these days, but I am always down for a Daria or Golden Girls re-run.
Talking about film has a way of making me just as ravenous as talking about food. Let’s pass the popcorn and get ready for this feature presentation.
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While she doesn’t quite have the accent, Sarah Fonseca’s been known to accidently type ‘ya’ll’ in her articles. Thank g-d for copyeditors.
Sarah runs frantically between writing and feminist club meetings on her university’s campus. Fortunately, those two spheres collide more than one would think. She is heavily involved with National Organization for Women, Creative Writing Club, and Random Acts of Poetry at Georgia Southern University.
Sarah is a staff writer for Georgia Southern’s George-Anne newspaper, and occasionally contributes to other publications within the community. Her fiction has been published in The Q Review and recognized by the Harbuck Scholarship committee.
Sarah is currently applying for fellowship with Lambda Literary, and plans to present her paper entitled On the Queering of Hair at next year’s National Women’s Studies Association Conference.
Welcome, Sarah.