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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Music for Every Woman Who's Had to Fight: A New Video from Australian Artist Magnets
Using entirely found footage, Melbourne artist Magnets created a powerful, vengeful video dedicated “to all women that have had to fight.”
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Appetite for Destruction: "Werewolf" Tackles Addiction and Toxic Masculinity
In her debut full-length film, Ashley McKenzie crafts a quietly devastating story of addiction, recovery, and relapse that portrays its subjects with both compassion and blunt honesty.
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Male Rape is No Joke—But Pop Culture Often Treats It That Way
From “Wedding Crashers” to “40 Days and 40 Nights,” films often treat sexual assault of men as a punchline.
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How "Fargo" Captures the Sad Realities of Toxic Masculinity
In an era of #MasculinitySoFragile, the 20-year-old film's portrayal of repressed feelings still resonates.
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