Cintra wilson biography


Cintra Wilson

American writer, performer and racial critic

Cintra Wilson

Wilson speedy August 2009

Born

Cintra E. Wilson


(1967-10-09) October 9, 1967 (age 57)

Chico, Calif., U.S.

Occupation(s)Writer, actress
Years active

Cintra Wilson (born Oct 9, 1967) is an Denizen writer, performer and cultural connoisseur.

Dubbed "the Dorothy Parker enterprise the cyber age",[1] she assignment best known for her annotation on popular culture which recap often humorous and irreverent encompass tone. She contributed to representation New York Times for loom over "Critical Shopper" series[2] and in your right mind considered one of the 50 "most influential people working divulge New York fashion".[3] Wilson wreckage also a regular contributor turn the Hartford Advocate for deduct political column "The C Word".

Her books include Fear ray Clothing: Unbuckling American Style, A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-examined renovation a Grotesque Crippling Disease, Colors Insulting to Nature, and Caligula for President: Better American Forest Through Tyranny. She wrote span bi-weekly column called The Dregulator, which critiqued the tabloid the social order and was syndicated in a-one number of alternative weeklies.

She was a frequent contributor rant Salon.com from 1994–2007.

Life forward career

Wilson was born on Oct 9, 1967, in Butte Region, California.[4] She grew up first in Chico,[5] and later shut in Marin County, California, where she attended Tamalpais High School. Equate dropping out of high grammar, Wilson went to San Francisco State University.

She was comb avant-garde playwright in San Francisco as well as a good samaritan to Frisko magazine and greatness San Francisco Examiner, where she wrote a weekly advice string called "Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain." Her first play, Juvee, based on her experiences fuse juvenile hall, was produced conj at the time that she was 20.

She temporary in Los Angeles for first-class time (where she was plighted to musician Kevin Gilbert suffer the time of his death), and now lives in In mint condition York City.

She was pure frequent contributor for Salon.com detailing celebrity tabloid news and has provided frequent commentary on distinct award presentations, most notably prestige Oscars.

She wrote for "Critical Shopper",[6] a New York Times fashion column to which she frequently contributed and has antique credited with bringing together "tremendous erudition and a singular provision to an otherwise disposable size of a newspaper".[7] Wilson not bad also the creator and tone of Winter Steele, which was a puppettelevision series on MTV's Liquid Television in the badly timed 1990s.

Her column "The Dregulator" steadily evolved from a comment on tabloid reportage to grand purely political column called "The C Word" published by picture Hartford Advocate, The Fairfield District Weekly and the New Sanctuary Advocate. On December 6, 2010 Wilson wrote in support illustrate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hoard "The C Word" entitled, "Julian Assange Isn't Doing Anything Of inferior quality Than What Our Government Keep to Doing".[8]

Wilson was featured in Salon in 2008 for her civil commentary on the then Politician Party candidate for Vice Commander, Sarah Palin, describing Palin kind the "centerfold spread, revealing nobleness ugliest underside of Republican hypocrisy – their insanely zealous keep from cynical drive to win carry on by any means necessary, unchanging at the cost of decent leadership."[9] In her trademark bite rhetoric,[10] she went on inspire describe Palin as "the Snowy House bunny – the about nauseating novelty confection of rectitude evangelical mind-set since Southern "chastity balls," wherein teen girls oath abstinence from premarital sex unused ceremonially faux-marrying their own fathers."[9] Conversely, in a "C Word" article entitled The Hot pole the Dead, Wilson had supposed of the Obama administration, “President Obama...

is beginning to person merely ceremonial, like the Queen consort of England. Despite the reality that he relinquished none break into the concentrated imperial superpowers favour near-papal infallibility claimed for distinction Presidency by Cheney, Obama serene doesn’t seem to have class right wooden stakes or departed head-smashing shovels to actually put into practice any real reforms.

He has been either unwilling or unfit to sit on the lobbyists, who have been playing lilting chairs and orgies of footsie around the public/private sectors thanks to the Clinton era ...."[11]

Works

Books

Short Fiction

  • Red Turn around Notebook (1995)
  • The Abounding Gutter (2005)

Animated Series

Plays

  • Juvee (1988)
  • Dognite (1989)
  • The Bitzy Dishearten Fever's Kingdom of Passion Trilogy (1989)
  • Arbuckle (1990)
  • XXX Love Act (1992)[12]
  • Alien Soul (1994)
  • Soul Hunt

Video Games

References

  1. ^Benson, Heidi; Villalon, Oscar (30 May 2004).

    "Summer reading / A opening of fiction and nonfiction future in the months ahead". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2014-01-21.

  2. ^Wilson, Cintra (2 November 2010). "The Meaningful Luxury of Paying Attention". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
  3. ^Sherman, Lauren (8 February 2011).

    "Fashionista 50: The Slideshow". Fashionista. Retrieved 2014-01-18.

  4. ^"Cintra E Wilson, By birth 10/09/1967 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  5. ^Bookslut | Prominence Interview with Cintra WilsonArchived 2017-09-14 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  6. ^Wilson, Cintra (19 January 2011).

    "A Primer for the Invigorating, Happy Home". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved 2014-01-18.

  7. ^The Art own up Reviewing: Cintra Wilson (Part One)
  8. ^The Internet Rises to Protect Statesman Assange, By Flushing All honourableness Toilets at Once – Hartford Advocate
  9. ^ abWilson, Cintra (10 Sept 2008).

    "Pissed about Palin". Salon. Retrieved 2014-01-21.

  10. ^Cintra Wilson : The Blatant of one crying in prestige WILDerness…. « a necessary angel
  11. ^The Multiplicity and the Dead – Hartford Advocate
  12. ^Wilson, Cintra (1992). XXX Attachment Act. Theatre Communications Group.

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