Emma Garland
@emmaggarland.bsky.social
music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
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first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
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@emmaggarland.bsky.social
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Gabrielle | Emma Garland | Substack
A newsletter about desire. Click to read Gabrielle, by Emma Garland, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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the virgin 'x formerly known as twitter' vs the chad bluesky that will let me promote my sex newsletter
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whittling this down to five felt like drowning multiple sacks of kittens but i got there by undeniable scientific means: yearning, sticking on lana's entire back catalogue, and noting which ones i wheeled back the most
Hope you want to read 15,000 words about Lana Del Rey because here's the latest in the top 5 songs Hell World series on the coolest oldest sister alive.
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I will love you til the end of time
The best of Lana Del Rey
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June 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
whittling this down to five felt like drowning multiple sacks of kittens but i got there by undeniable scientific means: yearning, sticking on lana's entire back catalogue, and noting which ones i wheeled back the most
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Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed.
@hanrahan.tv @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
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May 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed.
@hanrahan.tv @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
@hanrahan.tv @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
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🚩 My new doc is out now 🚩
CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...
CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...
The Hidden Side of Brazil's Gang Favelas
YouTube video by Away Days with Jake Hanrahan
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May 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🚩 My new doc is out now 🚩
CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...
CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...
a short story about british strip clubs written entirely with words i harvested from reviews of british strip clubs:
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May 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
a short story about british strip clubs written entirely with words i harvested from reviews of british strip clubs:
open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...
open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...
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“No one lives less than these men, and yet they want to live forever.”
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May 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
“No one lives less than these men, and yet they want to live forever.”
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my newsletter about desire has led me to places i wouldn't even go with a gun (weighing up the sex appeal of olly murs)
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April 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
my newsletter about desire has led me to places i wouldn't even go with a gun (weighing up the sex appeal of olly murs)
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The only thing you need to read about the Olly Murs before / after body pics discourse and what it says about gender, desire and physical ideals etc is on @emmaggarland.bsky.social's Gabrielle Substack:
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Gabrielle #38 – Backshots with... Olly Murs' 'Before' Photo
Today in Sentences Nobody Has Ever Used Before, it is time to contemplate the sexual magnetism of Olly Murs.
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April 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The only thing you need to read about the Olly Murs before / after body pics discourse and what it says about gender, desire and physical ideals etc is on @emmaggarland.bsky.social's Gabrielle Substack:
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
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once again being a Gabrielle Ultra by reminding you that it's the best and indeed only newsletter on sex and desire you will ever need: emmagarland.substack.com/p/panties-in...
April 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
once again being a Gabrielle Ultra by reminding you that it's the best and indeed only newsletter on sex and desire you will ever need: emmagarland.substack.com/p/panties-in...
subscribe to gabrielle, my newsletter about desire, for more deep philosophical insights emmagarland.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
subscribe to gabrielle, my newsletter about desire, for more deep philosophical insights emmagarland.substack.com
this and the virgin suicides (original motion picture score) by air
April 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this and the virgin suicides (original motion picture score) by air
it was so sick when this was the creative genesis point for children's films and not some studio head asking "which actor with instagram face can we get to resurrect X disney character against a foul CGI backdrop"
Concept art by Ul de Rico for The NeverEnding Story (1984) 1/2
April 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
it was so sick when this was the creative genesis point for children's films and not some studio head asking "which actor with instagram face can we get to resurrect X disney character against a foul CGI backdrop"
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Videodrome directed by David Cronenberg, 1983
April 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Videodrome directed by David Cronenberg, 1983
in the spirit of easter, here's an essay about developing a formative crush on an american missionary who helped run a christian summer camp in the chapel next door to my house emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
Gabrielle #37 – Christine
An erotic Easter sermon.
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April 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
in the spirit of easter, here's an essay about developing a formative crush on an american missionary who helped run a christian summer camp in the chapel next door to my house emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
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“All in all it seems increasingly likely that the end of the world won’t come with a bang, but with a cringe.”
With global tensions rising, @emmaggarland.bsky.social explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all.
www.huckmag.com/article/doge...
With global tensions rising, @emmaggarland.bsky.social explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all.
www.huckmag.com/article/doge...
As DOGE stutters, all that remains is cringe
Department of Gargantuan Egos — With tensions splintering the American right and contemporary rap’s biggest feud continuing to make headlines, newsletter…
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March 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“All in all it seems increasingly likely that the end of the world won’t come with a bang, but with a cringe.”
With global tensions rising, @emmaggarland.bsky.social explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all.
www.huckmag.com/article/doge...
With global tensions rising, @emmaggarland.bsky.social explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all.
www.huckmag.com/article/doge...
pleased to have written the cover story for this week's @thetls.bsky.social – on joan didion, writerly myth-making, and the results of a few recent books that attempt to unpick the didion "brand." enormous thanks to @georgeberridge.bsky.social for the diligent edit.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
pleased to have written the cover story for this week's @thetls.bsky.social – on joan didion, writerly myth-making, and the results of a few recent books that attempt to unpick the didion "brand." enormous thanks to @georgeberridge.bsky.social for the diligent edit.
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
co-hosting a film screening for true freaks. nymphomaniac double bill – soho, march 16. i'll be giving an intro written especially for the occasion. tickets: dice.fm/event/yoln5v...
February 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
co-hosting a film screening for true freaks. nymphomaniac double bill – soho, march 16. i'll be giving an intro written especially for the occasion. tickets: dice.fm/event/yoln5v...
happy reality (social media is over)
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February 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
happy reality (social media is over)
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wrote about shame
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February 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
wrote about shame
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for @dazeddigital.com i wrote about the new wave of erotic films and how, after years of prudishness and moral sanctimony, "sex is back" in popular entertainment – but saying what? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
January 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
for @dazeddigital.com i wrote about the new wave of erotic films and how, after years of prudishness and moral sanctimony, "sex is back" in popular entertainment – but saying what? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
fairest way to settle this is no rules physical combat with every director / actor who has crossed the PCC threshold (tommy wiseau, brendan fraser, tarantino, john waters et al) vs the landlord. but for real, protect london's best cinema: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
fairest way to settle this is no rules physical combat with every director / actor who has crossed the PCC threshold (tommy wiseau, brendan fraser, tarantino, john waters et al) vs the landlord. but for real, protect london's best cinema: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
a true north in a wayward world and a fantastic head of hair on him until the head. RIP david lynch. emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
January 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
a true north in a wayward world and a fantastic head of hair on him until the head. RIP david lynch. emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
this was a heater from garth greenwell www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01...
January 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
this was a heater from garth greenwell www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01...
new newsletter on what robert eggers' nosferatu says about contemporary sexual anxieties, ft. shame, vampire simps, and female desire as divine rather than dangerous
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January 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
new newsletter on what robert eggers' nosferatu says about contemporary sexual anxieties, ft. shame, vampire simps, and female desire as divine rather than dangerous
emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...
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darkness vs light, art vs entertainment, the desire to be good vs the reality of being human – i reviewed ethel cain's 'perverts', where all these things collide, for @thequietus.com
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The Greak Dark: Perverts by Ethel Cain | The Quietus
The American artist also known as Hayden Silas Anhedönia digs deep into twilit territories of Southern Gothic fiction and experimental drone for a concept album about a preacher's daughter on the run
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January 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
darkness vs light, art vs entertainment, the desire to be good vs the reality of being human – i reviewed ethel cain's 'perverts', where all these things collide, for @thequietus.com
thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
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wrote this for @newstatesman.com about 'better man', robbie williams' double-edged relationship with fame, and how his story is also a parable of british working class aspiration www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
January 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
wrote this for @newstatesman.com about 'better man', robbie williams' double-edged relationship with fame, and how his story is also a parable of british working class aspiration www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...