Chloe Stillwell

Bio

Chloe currently resides in Nashville, her hometown, after long stints in New York and Los Angeles. She is a New School alum and UCB-trained sketch writer. Her alternative comedy is featured at Mad Atoms, an off-shoot of 20th Century Fox. Her work on pop culture, entertainment, feminism and social justice has appeared in The Frisky, Death & Taxes, Nerve, Guerrilla Feminism, and Amy Poheler's Smart Girls, among others. She has a penchant for dive bars and diners.
Why is Team USA still dressing like a bunch of preppy assholes?
By Chloe Stillwell
Since 2008, fashion titan Ralph Lauren has monopolized the designing of Team USA's Olympic Opening Ceremony regalia, in both the Winter and Summer games. While some might argue that Ralph Lauren is an American classic, others could say the aesthetic…
PornHub wants to be your guide to the horniest art in museums around the world
By Chloe Stillwell
When Toulouse-Lautrec sketched the sex workers of France's red light district in the late nineteenth century, he knew he was doing something subversive. But his art wasn't just famous for being pornographic; he was a pioneer of showing that sex…
Morgan Wallen's apology can't hide the racist subculture of country music
By Chloe Stillwell
Back in February, Morgan Wallen seemed to have sufficiently ended his career after being caught by a neighbor using a racial slur in his driveway coming home from what he called "hour 72 of a 72-hour bender." Per TMZ, Wallen is heard saying to his…
‘Sexy Beasts’ is a cringey reminder that love is not blind
By Chloe Stillwell
Last month, I may or may not have admitted (Okay, I did) that I was very excited for Netflix's new reality dating series Sexy Beasts. At the time, the show had released its trailer, touting it as a combination of the early-quarantine hit Love Is…
Lil Nas X can be as slutty as he wants
By Chloe Stillwell
Lil Nas X has not just become king of music and queer culture, he's also king of the internet. His recent theatrically-styled trailer for the release of his new song "Industry Baby" coming out July 23, which satirized a trial over the release of his…
Phoebe Bridgers and John Mulaney announced tour dates and the internet imploded
By Chloe Stillwell
Phoebe Bridgers went from an indie darling playing smaller venues with modest crowds to a household name with four Grammy nominations over the course of the pandemic. The June 2020 release of her hit album Punisher was somehow for Bridgers…
Ted Cruz and Matt Gaetz are the last people who should be talking about #FreeBritney
By Chloe Stillwell
For a case that only stands to have one victor if she prevails, the fight to end Britney Spears's 13-year abusive conservatorship has the public interest in a frenzy. From what was originally a hashtag used to organize small protests of "five to…
'Dr. Death' clings to the wrong part of a true story
By Chloe Stillwell
As a society, for better or worse, we're pretty accustomed to witnessing horror. We've been seeing images — both real on the news, and fictional in the created worlds of storytellers like Ryan Murphy and Jordan Peele — for long enough that it's hard…
Facebook is making emojis you can hear
By Chloe Stillwell
At the beginning of the 2010s when the Japanese-originating emoji keyboard first took the US by storm, I can admit now, I balked at the idea. Why did I need an extra keyboard? Why did my messages need little pictures? How would adding them…
Black Widow shows Hollywood can handle a dark female superhero (finally)
By Chloe Stillwell
From the original Avengers lineup, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk have all had their own spin off movies (many of which have had more than one) — and naturally, their female counterpart, Black Widow (played by Scarlet Johansson), is…
It’s finally time for the woman antihero to take over television
By Chloe Stillwell
It's no secret that women are under represented, well everywhere. Or when women are represented, it's through the lens of a man, or geared towards the male gaze. For the last 15 years or so during the television renaissance — the time in which TV…
'Parasite' is being adapted into a show, and it might just save us all
By Chloe Stillwell
Bong Joon Ho took the entertainment world by storm with the 2019 release of his pivotal film Parasite. The film was a somewhat satirical, absurdist dark comedy that discussed the growing wealth disparity in South Korea. Part of why the film…
The Teletubbies have joined hot vax summer
By Chloe Stillwell
If Billie Eilish didn't know that the Spice Girls were real until 2017, I'd wager that a good portion of Gen Z might not be familiar with the Teletubbies, the alien-like toddlers who took the world by storm in the late '90s. But they're about to get…
Bill Cosby and the disturbing trend of predators being welcomed back on stage
By Chloe Stillwell
If there's one thing that's not fucking funny it was Bill Cosby being released from prison on June 30 without warning. If there's anything that's even more un-fucking funny, it's the fact that within a week he has audaciously announced via his press…
Miley Cyrus turns Party In The USA into a #FreeBritney anthem
By Chloe Stillwell
If there are two artists who have flipped the child star trope on its head to become musical icons and lasting contributors to our culture, it's Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus. So leave it to Miley to take the celebrity involvement in the…
Allison Mack's 3-year sentence isn't long enough
By Chloe Stillwell
Watching HBO’s The Vow, which documents the evolution of self-help lifestyle brand turned secret sex cult NXIVM, it’s hard to look away. America loves a cult narrative, a sinister sub-genre of the cultural monolith that is true crime. The story of…
'The Moschino Musical' is a technicolor revolution for the fashion industry
By Chloe Stillwell
Karen Elson is the star of a whole new kind of high fashion ad in "Lightning Strikes: The Moschino Musical." The beloved redhead is not only a staple of the fashion world, having been a top model for decades now, but she also is a singer/songwriter…
Meghan McCain is leaving 'The View,' thank god
By Chloe Stillwell
It was leaked by The Daily Mail today that Meghan McCain will be announcing her resignation from The View at the end of today’s episode. To make things juicier, she still has two years left on her contract, and her co-hosts, at least at the time of…
James Franco’s $2 million settlement adds to a complicated day for sexual assault victims
By Chloe Stillwell
Pending a California judge’s approval, it was revealed today that James Franco will be paying $2,235,000 to settle a 2019 lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct. As we reported when the case originally settled without a monetary decision back in…
Does Madonna own the queer television kiss? (No, she does not)
By Chloe Stillwell
Madge is off her Pilates rocker yet again. The pop icon posted an Instagram story last night to her 16.1 million followers, juxtaposing the incendiary queer kiss during Lil Nas X’s BET Awards performance over a photo of her infamous early aughts…