About Cate Young

Cate Young is a Los Angeles-based film critic, essayist and podcast producer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the creator of BattyMamzelle; a now-defunct feminist pop culture blog focused on film, television, music and critical commentary on media representation. She is currently the co-creator of Thirty, Flirty + Film, a sometimes biweekly film review newsletter, with Zosha Millman.

Her writing has dealt particularly with the intersection of race, gender and sexuality. Predominantly, her critical focus is on media representation through cultural storytelling in film and television — engaging with the entertainment industry as a function of its political power to shape and mould society. Many of her most popular essays introduce an intersectional political analysis to discussions of pop culture.

Thirty, Flirty + Film is a newsletter written by myself and Zosha Millman. Started in 2020 as a project to occupy our time and use our skills during quarantine, it has become a fun collaboration we look forward to every other week. In six years we’ve been running so far, we’ve covered everything from Hedda to I Care A Lot. If our wildly varied tastes interest you, subscribe here to get two reviews straight to your inbox twice a month.