Catch me, catch me, catch me! It's that time of year again, which means it's time for Blanche's Santa kink and my annual Golden Girls Holiday Gift Guide! Of course us fans have been celebrating all year long for the show's 40th anniversary, and there's more Golden Girls merch than ever to mark the occasion. …
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Claire Sewell is a librarian and writer in Houston, Texas. She is the author of The Golden Girls Fashion Corner blog, and her writing often focuses on television, gender, and memory.
“I’m just a writer. Malamud’s an author.”: The Golden Girls and Banned Books Week
Picture it: Houston, 2025. A mother and her young daughter walk into the doctor's office one afternoon. In the waiting area is a little free library built to look like a red British telephone box. As they scan the shelves, the mother sees a book, well-known to her and once quite controversial but now almost …
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Happy 40th Golden Girls-aversary!
Today's the day: happy 40th anniversary to The Golden Girls!!! The show premiered on NBC on September 14th, 1985 and was an instant hit that's been making us laugh ever since. I feel like that's almost an understatement given how popular the show still is. NBC started airing daytime reruns of the show in 1989 …
The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai – Interview with the Editors!
This cover is as pretty as a ladybug sunning itself on a lily pad on a misty spring day south of Savannah! Girls, girls, here it is! No, you don't see Molly Ringwald sitting here: it's The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai book! Yes, yours truly has a chapter in it that's a longer take …
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Defending Bea Arthur’s Military Service
In honor of Women's History Month and this being the 100th post of The Golden Girls Fashion Corner, I've decided to take a moment and defend Bea Arthur's service as a member of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II. Bea Arthur's service photo, National Archives The Women's Reserve was signed into law …
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