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Cassie da Costa

Cassie da Costa is an editor and writer. You can find her work in Vanity Fair, Artforum, the New Yorker, and elsewhere.

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The Watermelon Woman: Faking It/Making It

In her audacious debut feature, Cheryl Dunye blends romantic comedy and staged archival material to explore love, friendship, and early U.S. cinema’s history of exclusion.

By Cassie da Costa

Pariah: Song of the Self

In Dee Rees’s ambitious and lyrical debut, the inner life of a queer Black teenager and poet is summoned in all its nuances and contradictions.

By Cassie da Costa