050. Women on the Verge

Janice Galloway, Marlowe Granados and being *that* kind of woman + Doodle Dispatches, and huzzah! it's the 50th issue of SBB

It’s asking for trouble to listen to music alone.

—Janice Galloway from The Trick is to Keep Breathing

I do love a good story about a terrible woman.

I don’t mean the “badly behaved women” who are behind the “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History” tshirt industrial complex which celebrates hard working women who lean in to honorable causes.

I mean really reprehensible women—the kind your mom didn’t want you to be like or to marry and the kind that gave your dad a little bit of a wild look in his eye. I mean the kind of woman who makes you feel a little bit frightened.

I mean the OG feminist terrible woman as exemplified by Lady Macbeth, who channels her inner masculinity as a means to getting in the mood for murder (“unsex me here”). And the new feminist terrible woman as exemplified in the character of Katherine in the contemporary film “Lady MacBeth” (played by Florence Pugh), a woman whose inner, feminine sexuality is all the mood she needs to get with the farmhand and poison her hus…