Analyzing Pop Culture from
a feminist perspective.
Writer, critic and producer, articulating thoughts through the lens of a queer, Caribbean identity.
About Cate Young
Cate Young is a podcast producer and film and culture critic from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the creator of BattyMamzelle; a now-defunct feminist pop culture blog focused on film, television, music and critical commentary on media representation. She is currently the co-creator of Thirty, Flirty + Film, a sometimes biweekly film review newsletter, with Zosha Millman.
Her writing has dealt particularly with the intersection of race, gender and sexuality. Predominantly, her critical focus is on media representation through cultural storytelling in film and television — engaging with the entertainment industry as a function of its political power to shape and mould society.
Many of her most popular essays introduce an intersectional political analysis to discussions of pop culture.
RECENT WORK
THIRTY, FLIRTY + FILM
Thirty, Flirty + Film is a tiny newsletter I write with my friend and fellow Trojan Zosha Millman, in which we write complete film reviews in 30 minutes or less. It started as a project to occupy our time and use our skills during quarantine and has become a fun collaboration we look forward to each week. In the year we’ve been running so far, we’ve covered everything from Klute to The Fate of the Furious. If our wildly varied tastes interest you, subscribe here to get two reviews straight to your inbox each week, and then follow us on Twitter and Instagram!
Podcasts
“Pop culture does not exist in a vacuum. It is a feedback loop that both contributes to and is sustained by the way we see ourselves as a culture — and in relation to each other.”