The Reverse Cowgirl Is Back!

In 2002, I launched what became an iconic blog: The Reverse Cowgirl. Now it’s back, as a Substack newsletter: The Reverse Cowgirl. Don’t forget to subscribe!

The RCB, as I referred to it, had what could be described as a prurient focus—after all, its tagline was: “in which a writer attempts to justify the enormity of her porn collection”—but it was also, as I write here, a way for me, a writer, to “share my crazy life working the sex and porn beat, from Porn Valley to the Playboy Mansion, and I was intoxicated by the opportunity that sex blogging afforded me: an uncensored venue where I could write and express whatever I wanted—without censorship.”

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How We Become Who We Are, Porn Valley Edition

My latest newsletter trades in how the things that happen to us change who we are.

“As I recall it, when I asked the porn star about her background, she explained that when she was very young—a toddler, I think—her father killed her mother and then killed himself.”

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The Hand Print

An excerpt from my latest newsletter: “The Hand Print”:

That scene would star Jenna and a well-known male porn star named T. T. Boy, a short, pugnacious performer with a lantern jaw and a permanent scowl who reminded me of a less-bright Patrick Bateman. (“Within the business, he is known as an untiring performer,” T. T. Boy’s Wikipedia page touts. “In a 2015 interview, he stated that over the course of his career, he has slept with over 10,000 women.”) I knew who T. T. Boy was before I arrived because I had read about him in the pages of The New Yorker. In 1995, Susan Faludi had written about the suicide of a male porn star named Cal Jammer, and during her research in the San Fernando Valley, her path had crossed with that of T. T. Boy’s. In her story, she’d quoted a former male porn star who’d observed of T. T. Boy: “Basically, the guy is a life-support system for a penis.” I found this assessment to be about right. He was smaller than me, brooding, coiled as if looking for an excuse to do something to someone—it didn’t really matter what or who, whether it was fighting or fucking. Maybe it was all the same to him.

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Welcome to Fantasy Island

My latest newsletter is live. It features Gang Bang Island, a superfreak, and what the storm took from me.

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I'm Gonna Knock You Out

My latest newsletter features zombies, Wes Anderson, and Ali.

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The Bad Date

In the latest installment of my newsletter — subscribe here — I wrote about a bad date and why it’s hard for me to explain what I do as a consultant to men who are not the type of men who are my consulting clients.

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The Lost Vagina

A short nonfiction essay I wrote for the Lost Objects series, “Silicone Vagina,” will be published in an upcoming PROJECT:OBJECT anthology to be published by Hat & Beard Press. The book should be available in spring 2022. I’ll post an update here when it’s available. You can read my story online here.

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How to Imagine

My latest newsletter is live, featuring cherry blossoms, Jesus Christ, and imagining your life. Also: Subscribe.

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Don't Write a Book

My latest newsletter is live, featuring dating, aspiring authors, and the writing of books. Also: Subscribe.

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My Book

My latest newsletter is live, featuring the difference between female writers and male writers. Also: Subscribe.

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I'm a Literary Dominatrix

My latest newsletter is live, featuring memoirs, movie posters, and mannequins. Don’t forget to subscribe.

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I'm The Fixer

New year, new things.

I have some openings in my work as a creative consultant. Book me now while the slots are available. Purchase a one-hour phone call or Zoom meeting with me on Gumroad or email me (susannahbreslin at gmail dot com) to set up a session.

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2020 in Review

2020 in Review. It was good, it bad, and thankfully it is almost over. Here's my year in review. A thread. pic.twitter.com/FJiljFFCcU

— Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) December 31, 2020

I wrote a year in review on Twitter. Check it out here. I’m happy to be saying goodbye to 2020!

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Mannequin with Bangs

I took this photograph on my morning walk. She was in the window of a store.

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Possessor

“Possessor” isn’t a good movie. Which is too bad. Because it has some interesting ideas and some interesting imagery. Basically, it’s set in a future in which people use technology to inhabit other people’s bodies. In this case, Tasya is a hitwoman who occupies other people’s bodies to kill other people for reasons that are financially motivated. Andrea Riseborough does a fine / creepy job with the role of Tasya, and it’s interesting to watch the body-hijackings take place. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays her super-creepy boss, Girder. And Christopher Abbott does a forgettable job as the main story line’s victim. The most interesting sequence in the film is a CGI representation of Tasya melting into her victim’s psyche; bodies turn liquid and boundaries go fluid. But the film falls apart on the plot level, leaving us wondering why we should care. Even the hyper-gruesome gore murder parts come across as more of an aesthetic exercise than something we should care about. The ending is super grim, but a curious twist. In any case, I guess when the director is the son of David Cronenberg, happy endings aren’t on the menu.

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The Pool

I lay out by the pool yesterday because a photographer friend of mine was in town. We did a photograph of me that was shot by drone. I’ll post it here when it’s up.

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The Lonely Mannequin

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She May Destroy You

I love this cover portrait of Michaela Coel by Tim Walker for W Magazine. If you haven’t seen HBO’s “I May Destroy You,” which is terrific, you should.

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The Pig Sofa

I really enjoyed reading this bizarre account of a pig couch. It features a kind of soft-core faux grifter who uses Craigslist for a curious kind of performance art.

An excerpt:

“She moved on to other lighthearted posts. In one, she posed as a snail who had upgraded to a larger shell and sought to rent the old one. (‘It’s perfect for the adolescent gastropod looking to expand his/her living space while avoiding predators. You’ll love the rare left-handed spiraling, steep aperture, and funky asymmetrical whorls.’) In another, she advertised her services as a ‘fragmented consciousness technician,’ offering to repair people’s broken brains.”

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