About caitlin {a.k.a. cat}
Caitlin Joy is a fashion, music and film writer, poet and student studying Cinema Studies, Women and Gender Studies and Creative Expression and Society at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. Under her name, or with one of her few nom de plumes, she explores the 'artificial' realms of culture - fashion, music, film, art, media and travel, from the critical perspective of 'substantial' academic study. Beautiful subjects, are infinitely more complex than conventional, patriarchal, journalism would mislead one to believe and for far too long, the narrative has dichotomized frilly femininity, and razor-sharp analysis. Women and girls who unabashedly participate in girliness, are equally capable of complex, intellectual thought - what, like its hard?
Caitlin is working on her second (-Sincerely, Caitlin) and third poetry anthologies. Her prose has been published in Death Moth Press, Ultraviolet Magazine, Hart House's Demo Music Magazine, The Howl, Melophile Media, Untied Magazine, Square One Magazine, Purple Haze Magazine, Melomania Magazine, Ascribe Magazine, Musaholic Magazine, kinda cool magazine, Moonstar Outlet, Fallen Curtain Magazine, and She’s SINGLE. Her academic writing, University of Toronto's Trans, Disability and Sapphic Knowledges Journal, Screenwriter's Perspective, Undergraduate Journal of American Studies, Cinema Studies Student Union's Zine, and Hopeful Romantics Society's As You Wish Magazine. Her poetry, the University of Toronto's Zine Club's Risk It All Zine, CESscapes Magazine, Mnerva Literary Journal, the UC Review, the Gargoyle Journal, Arbor Room Magazine, and Sugar Moon, See You Next Tuesday and Girl Spring. As well as on her poetry blog, Lilies, Lace & Loserdom (https://caitlinjoy3.wixsite.com/website).