Cintra Wilson

Wilson was born on October 9, 1967, in Butte County, California.{{cite web |title=Cintra E Wilson, Born 10/09/1967 in California |url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/cintra_e_wilson_born_1967_10090871 |website=CaliforniaBirthIndex.org |access-date=21 April 2021}} She grew up initially in Chico,[http://www.bookslut.com/features/2004_09_003118.php Bookslut | An Interview with Cintra Wilson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914072147/http://www.bookslut.com/features/2004_09_003118.php |date=2017-09-14 }} Retrieved 2016-12-19. and later in Marin County, California, where she attended Tamalpais High School. After dropping out of high school, Wilson went to San Francisco State University. She was an avant-garde playwright in San Francisco as well as a contributor to Frisko magazine and the San Francisco Examiner, where she wrote a weekly advice column called "Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain." Her first play, Juvee, based on her experiences in juvenile hall, was produced when she was 20. She lived in Los Angeles for a time (where she was engaged to musician Kevin Gilbert at the time of his death), and now lives in New York City.

She was a frequent contributor for Salon.com chronicling celebrity tabloid news and has provided frequent commentary on various award presentations, most notably the Oscars. She wrote for "Critical Shopper",{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/fashion/20CRITIC.html |title=A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home |last=Wilson |first=Cintra |date=19 January 2011 |website=The New York Times |accessdate=2014-01-18}} a New York Times fashion column to which she frequently contributed and has been credited with bringing together "tremendous erudition and a singular approach to an otherwise disposable area of a newspaper".[http://driftlessareareview.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/the-art-of-reviewing-cintra-wilson-part-one/ The Art of Reviewing: Cintra Wilson (Part One)] Wilson is also the creator and voice of Winter Steele, which was a puppet television series on MTV's Liquid Television in the early 1990s. Her column "The Dregulator" steadily evolved from a commentary on tabloid reportage to a purely political column called "[http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/commentary/the-internet-rises-to-protect-julian-assange-by-flushing-all-the-toilets-at-once-056499 The C Word]" published by the Hartford Advocate, The Fairfield County Weekly and the New Haven Advocate. On December 6, 2010 Wilson wrote in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in "The C Word" entitled, "Julian Assange Isn't Doing Anything Worse Than What Our Government Is Doing".[http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/commentary/the-internet-rises-to-protect-julian-assange-by-flushing-all-the-toilets-at-once-056499 The Internet Rises to Protect Julian Assange, By Flushing All the Toilets at Once – Hartford Advocate]

Wilson was featured in Salon in 2008 for her political commentary on the then Republican Party candidate for Vice President, Sarah Palin, describing Palin as the "centerfold spread, revealing the ugliest underside of Republican ambitions – their insanely zealous and cynical drive to win power by any means necessary, even at the cost of actual leadership."{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2008/09/10/palin_feminism/ |title=Pissed about Palin |last=Wilson |first=Cintra |date=10 September 2008 |website=Salon |accessdate=2014-01-21}} In her trademark satirical rhetoric,[http://percy3.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/cintra-wilson-the-voice-of-one-crying-in-the-wilderness%E2%80%A6/ Cintra Wilson : The Voice of one crying in the WILDerness…. « a necessary angel] she went on to describe Palin as "the White House bunny – the most nauseating novelty confection of the evangelical mind-set since Southern "chastity balls," wherein teen girls pledge abstinence from premarital sex by ceremonially faux-marrying their own fathers." Conversely, in a "C Word" article entitled The Hot and the Dead, Wilson had said of the Obama administration, “President Obama... is beginning to look merely ceremonial, like the Queen of England. Despite the fact that he relinquished none of the concentrated imperial superpowers and near-papal infallibility claimed for the Presidency by Cheney, Obama still doesn’t seem to have the right wooden stakes or zombie head-smashing shovels to actually implement any real reforms. He has been either unwilling or unable to sit on the lobbyists, who have been playing musical chairs and orgies of footsie around the public/private sectors since the Clinton era ...."[http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/commentary/the-hot-and-the-dead.html The Hot and the Dead – Hartford Advocate]

Books

• A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-examined as a Grotesque Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations (2000) {{ISBN|978-0670891627}}
• Colors Insulting to Nature (2004) {{ISBN|978-0007154579}}
• Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny (2008) {{ISBN|978-1596915886}}
• Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style (2015) {{ISBN|978-0-393-24840-1}}

Short Fiction

• Red Spiral Notebook (1995)
• The Abounding Gutter (2005)

Animated Series

• Winter Steele – for MTV's Liquid Television (1991–1993)

Plays

• Juvee (1988)
• Dognite (1989)
• The Bitzy La Fever's Kingdom of Passion Trilogy (1989)
• Arbuckle (1990)
• XXX Love Act (1992){{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Cintra |title=XXX Love Act |date=1992 |publisher=Theatre Communications Group |language=en |quote=Volume 13, Issue 9 of Plays in process, ISSN 0736-0711}}
• Alien Soul (1994)
• Soul Hunt

Video Games

• Iron Helix (1993)

{{reflist}}

• Official Website: [http://www.cintrawilson.com Cintra Wilson]
• Yabroff, Jennie (September 19, 2004). "[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/19/LVGQ48N8FV1.DTL Color Her Cintra]". San Francisco Chronicle

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