Eileen G'Sell

Decadent, matte, and velvety news: My forthcoming LIPSTICK book @BloomsburyAcad has an official pub date (FEB 5) & a preorder page! Explore the beauty world's most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. bloomsbury.com/us/lipstick-97…… #beauty #lipstick #ChappellRoan #Madonna

In just four days I'll be chatting with author Jessa Crispin @theheavyanchor about her new book WHAT'S WRONG WITH MEN. It's free Tuesday at 7PM! RSVP @LeftBankBooks at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Loved hearing Jessa Crispin interviewed on @onthemedia @WNYC upon publication of her new book. Will be discussing it with her at The Heavy Anchor on 7.29! @LeftBankBooks wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/a…

Vainly posting this pic of me on a film panel because 1) I look smart, and 2) my legs will likely never look this tan again.

Proud to be part of this panel tomorrow on movie storytelling—part of the 25th Annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase! It's free at 11AM @STLFilmFest @HIPointe festivals.cinemastlouis.org/showcase2025/s…

My #Greyhound driver in Chicago is amazing. She has the same glitter eye shadow that I do, and similarly fly frames.

You know what they say: nothing goes with a cold Corona like a bucket of donut holes! #dunkin

Excellent essay by @devintoshea in the @LAReviewofBooks in light of my colleague Patty Heyda’s new book, Radical Atlas, which has been on my reading list for some time. lareviewofbooks.org/article/kill-i… #Ferguson #StLouis

Such a sad day for ‘80s Kids. RIP, #malcolmjamalwarner #Theo

"Whatever Varda touched turned into art, and vice versa..." Fantastic piece @tnyfrontrow @newyorker on one of the best museum shows of the summer: "Le Paris d'Agnès Varda" @museecarnavalet till 8.24. newyorker.com/culture/the-fr… #AgnesVarda #WomeninFilm #Paris #PhotographyIsArt

I’m begging a single journalist who had access to Dem leadership to ask them: how do you expect to have credibility to ask voters to ‘vote blue no matter who’ when you’re declining to support the Democratic nominee? Doesn’t this validate Uncommitted & other Harris critics?

I didn’t watch this show regularly, but the reason for its cancellation is terribly disturbing. @washingtonpost washingtonpost.com/entertainment/… #Colbert

In 2024, I took my Modern Media class @WashU to the @paleycenter in New York, which none of them had heard of. A year later, one of my favorite students scored an incredible competitive internship there!! Super proud of Madison Yue. source.washu.edu/2025/07/yue-wi…

Francophiles on #BastilleDay: my new book, FRANCOFILAMENTS @brokensleep, was shaped by my time interviewing film luminaries like Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert, Laure Calamy, and Céline Sciamma. It’s sexy-sad poetry for midsummer revelry and rapture! brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/e…

Embarrassingly, as a leftist film critic, I was today year's old learning that @ZohranKMamdani's mom made MISSISSIPPI MASALA. This helps explain how he got so cool so young! #MiraNair #WomeninFilm #ZohranMamdani #zohranformayor

RIP, #fannyhowe. I've been teaching this poem of yours for years—as I have been, for years, learning how to understand it.

"Agnès Varda had once had a lesbian romance...[her] bisexuality more deeply shades in our understanding of her position in society, her own sociopolitical perspective." Compelling piece @sadfilmcritic on one of my favorite artist-auteurs @LAReviewofBooks. lareviewofbooks.org/article/more-t…

"[F]abulousness as an embodied aesthetic is in how it actually exposes the bland, boring nature of rote masculinity." ~ madison moore Savoring FABULOUS @yalepress as I research my next book. Wish I'd included it in my LIPSTICK volume @BloomsburyAcad! yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/06/05/the…

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” ~John Berger What’s a scopophilic woman supposed to do with that? For one, read @LoriMarso's FEMINISM & THE CINEMA OF EXPERIENCE @DukePress—which I reviewed @hyperallergic! #Womeninfilm hyperallergic.com/1021525/femini…