New piece out in @msmagazine.com about the impact my childhood obsession with the O.G. #CharliesAngels had on my impressionable young feminist-in-training mind. Team #KateJackson, #JaclynSmith, #FarrahFawcett, and #CherylLadd 4evah! 😍 msmagazine.com/2026/08/08/t...

The Feminist Case for Loving ‘Charlie’s Angels’

"Jiggle TV," examined through the lens of 1970s shows, all starring women who wore excessively revealing clothing, including Charlie's Angels.

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To accompany the Gaslighting episode, Nora Gilbert's "'Whether the Women Like It or Not': Reading Protectionist Gender Politics Through the Lens of Gaslight Noir Film" is free to read in the Gaslighting issue of @socres.org at @projectmuse.bsky.social through 31 Aug tiny.one/4xxv7uzd

What if gaslighting didn’t start in modern psychology, but in the Victorian Empire? VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING traces how power, “madness,” and false narratives were used to control women and colonized subjects, and why it still matters. #SCMS26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/26pr7kyn

It's alive! Editor copies of "Victorian Gaslighting" arrived yesterday, and the book is now available for order at sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vict.... Go get (or go ask your library to get) yours! #gaslighting #Gaslight @dbellonby.bsky.social @tara-macdonald.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social

Why the hell of 'It's a Wonderful Life's' Pottersville is extra terrifying this Christmas www.rawstory.com/the-hell-of-...

Why the hell of 'It's a Wonderful Life's' Pottersville is extra terrifying this Christmas

By Nora Gilbert, University of North TexasAlong with millions of others, I’ll soon be taking 2 hours and 10 minutes out of my busy holiday schedule to sit down and watch a movie I’ve seen countless ti...

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Here's a new piece I wrote for @theconversation.com about the dystopian Pottersville sequence of #It'saWonderfulLife and how it reflects the current political hellscape we're in but also points toward what we need to do to get out of it. theconversation.com/the-dystopia...

The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction

Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet effectiveness of collective action.

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Happy to have this new piece out in @publicbooks.bsky.social today about political #gaslighting, a lost version of the play #Gaslight, and how the latter can help us reframe the way we think about and push back against the former!

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In 2023, @noragilbert.bsky.social uncovered a synopsis of a lost version of "Gaslight" in the MGM archives. This version's different ending is a lesson in radical solidarity—and, Gilbert argues, it should change the way we think of "gaslighting" as a term.

Happy to share that the collection I've co-edited with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald, "Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice," will be published by SUNY Press next year. We've put together a really fabulous group of essays by a fabulous group of women; go read them when you can!

Keep forgetting I have a Blue Sky acct, but if FB is going to go the way of X, maybe I should come BS more often. To that end: please check out my article on Bette Davis in the current issue of Screen, if you're into that kind of thing... doi.org/10.1093/scre...

‘Women with careers should be shot!’: Bette Davis and the unwomaning threat of female stardom

From the time the Hollywood film industry first arrived on the popular culture scene, it has shown a remarkably strong penchant for telling stories about i

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Attn, attn: The very special issue of Studies in the Novel Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel is OUT! so lovely to co-edit w @megaplex.bsky.social and big thanks to @noragilbert.bsky.social & Tim Boswell @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

Still feel like a bit of a fish out of water here on bluesky, but we just adopted a ridiculously cute puppy yesterday and it seems like the only responsible thing to do is to share this pic of his sweet face as widely possible. I am so very in love with Henry the Dog!