Examining Trump with a House of Cards: The Line Separating Reality and TV Political Drama is Fading
The line between reality and political television drama is wearing thin.
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Resistance Narratives: Lidia Yuknavitch on Joan of Arc, Bodies, and Reimagining the Love Story
Intersectional feminism is rising, cracks and fissures are emerging, blind spots are being illuminated, failures examined, possibilities getting born. Good. Bring it.
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Chris Brown, Johnny Depp, and the Politics of Ex Abuse
There are many ways ex abuse can occur. It can be happen through stalking, threats, or by using children from the relationship as leverage for continued violence. The method can also be financial, such as withholding the financial compensation ordered by the court. At its worst, ex abuse... Read more »
No Girls Allowed: The Fragility of Gaming Culture
As the Internet began to grow and accelerate through the ’90s and early 2000s, gamers began congregating in online spaces and solidifying the rules of their subculture…Many of those rules—fueled by any number of extant factors, such as sexual intimidation and social ostracization—could be... Read more »
Cooking with Queen Sugar, A Dish to Be Savored: Season One Takes on Slavery, Colonialism, and Empire
Queen Sugar explores the ways that capitalism has depended and still depends on exploited labor, building connections between the enslavement of African Americans, to Latino guest workers, to sex workers, and sex tourism.
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Shedding (Moon)Light on Toxic Masculinity: The Problem is Homophobia, not Gay Characters
Gay Black men are not a problem. Toxic masculinity, however, is. And the twisted view of manhood festering in some traditionalist corners is damaging to all Black men—as well as to women and girls.
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20 Years of Buffy: Love Letters to the Vampire Slayer: A 3 part series exploring the impact of the iconic show on feminism
Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed me that aggressiveness is an important part of a woman’s personality, something she could not be whole without.
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How to Raise a Boy in 1979: Navigating love, gender, and punk music in “20th Century Women”
Unlike Mills’s other boy-meets-girl, girl-somehow-saves-boy plots, the women are the backbone of this film.
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Does the "Collateral Beauty" of Fatherhood Come at the Expense of Mothers?
Complex representations of fatherhood shouldn’t require the erasure of moms.
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"Moonlight" is an Essential Work of Art for the Current Political Moment
Moonlight displays the kind of empathy and humanity that we desperately need right now.
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