Henry Giardina is a trans film critic and writer living in Los Angeles. He is the editor of INTO. He writes the film newsletter Less Art.
Giardina’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker.com, The Paris Review Daily, The Believer, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, and Film Comment, among other outlets. He is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the National Critics Institute.
He co-hosted the podcast Totally Trans: Searching for the Trans Canon and currently co-hosts the podcast I’ll Watch Anything with W.M. Akers.
Essays and Criticism
INTO: Trans Guys Struggle with Eating Disorders. Nobody Talks About It.
INTO: Robin Tran is Embracing the Darkness
INTO: Suranne Jones on “Gentleman Jack”
INTO: Vico Ortiz Has Been Manifesting This
INTO: John Cameron Mitchell on “Shortbus”
INTO: Bridget Everett on “Somebody Somewhere”
INTO: Green is the Gayest Color
INTO: How Hyram Became the Queer King of Skincare
INTO: Spalding Gray was Super Queer, and His Journals Prove It.
INTO: Carmen Carrera Did It First
INTO: How Howard Ashman Forced Disney to Tell Queer Stories
Popula: I Wish I Looked the Way Albert Brooks Looks in a Dress
Popula: Shoplifting from Sephora
Popula: Death of a Disco Dancer
Human Parts: The Art of Hating Everything
BuzzFeed Reader: Embracing Maleness in an Age of Toxic Masculinity