The Ghosts Issue
Ghost in My Mouth: A Modern Diaspora’s Endangered Language
Konkani has nearly 13 million speakers and a growing diaspora continuing the tradition of migrant language.
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Digitizing the Dead is Capitalism’s Next Ghoulish Move
When celebrities, especially musicians, die, fans rightfully grieve for them, but what happens when mourning marries capitalism?
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Marielle, Presente!: A Movement Remembers
Though Marielle Franco was brutally murdered for her politics, we refuse to let the racialized misogynist violence that took her body also take her memory and legacy.
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Missing, Murdered, but Never Forgotten: Violence, Colonialism, and Justice for Indigenous Women
Today, sexual and gendered violence is one of the greatest issues plaguing Indian country.
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Nijla Mu’min Brings a Radical Portrait of Black Muslim Women to the Big Screen
Nijla Mu’min is very aware of her film’s unique place in the white patriarchal world of Hollywood.
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Excavating Trauma and the Healing Power of Haunted-Home Films
Trauma-of-the-home films have the power to demonstrate human resilience in the face of terrible things.
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Pretty Girls Make Graves: How Female Suicide Became a Cultural Obsession
Whether in regard to fictional characters or actual people, the emphasis placed on the female suicide muse entrenches a hyperbolic narrative of failure.
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Dying Indifference: Confronting the Shame of Alzheimer’s in Black Communities
Until a cure is found for Alzheimer’s, African Americans must break the silence in our communities.
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The Music Industry Transformed Lauryn Hill from Superstar to Specter
Looking back on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20 years after its acclaimed release is an exercise in witnessing promise unfulfilled.
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Beyond the Closet Door: Rhea Butcher on Comedy Beyond the Binary
Sober LGBTQ individuals can sometimes feel excluded.
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