Mary K. Cantrell

Mary K. Cantrell is an Austin-based freelance writer and journalist. She has journalism and women’s and gender studies degrees from the University of Texas and a fondness for covering local arts stories.

Magdalena Jarkowiec’s Giant Mutant Dolls

I first encountered one of Magdalena Jarkowiec’s giant mutant dolls while taking a routine hike on Austin’s Barton Creek Greenbelt Trail with a friend. About a mile towards town...

Gothic beauty: Alyssa Taylor Wendt’s “HAINT”

Haint blue graces the front porch ceiling of many a home in the Southern United States. The tradition started in the nineteenth-century with the African American Gullah people, who...

Fairly Reactionary: Hyperreal Film Club’s Video Zines

A husky construction worker pours a foaming liter of Diet Coke all over his hairy chest and yellow hard hat. Girls munch loudly on jelly beans as glops of...

“An Uncomfortable Woman” makes for a diverse cast and crew

Whether it be within their intimate relationships or vis-à-vis patriarchal microaggressions in public, women are oftentimes made to feel uncomfortable. That’s the concept behind writer, director and producer Meghan Ross’...