Pose
...the latest show from Ryan Murphy bequeaths audiences with a chance to see multiple trans women characters played and written by trans women. And these characters aren’t just one-dimensional side...
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
...experienced before in high school had now simply been transposed onto a new context. It took me some time to come to terms with the fact that these feelings wouldn’t...
Episode One: All The Factory's A Stage
...latest cycle of fascist violence in India by re-broadcasting this TV adaptation, there should be little doubt concerning the centrality of the epic for understanding the twinned trajectories of the...
I'm Not a Philosopher (But I Play One in The Movies)
...to mince words. That he too is the subject of a feature length cinematic treatment of ideas, one that opens the same month as Zizek’s latest is undoubtedly an irony...
Five Questions with Dan Beachy-Quick
...self-made syllabus. His latest book centers on reading. If 'reading is a method of entering' and 'entering is a form of initiation,' what better knife-polishing apprenticeship than reading Dan himself?...
Nerd Crushed: Where Are the Average-Looking Female "Sex Symbols"?
...think of, in that she's a well-known woman viewed as attractive in a field where you don't have to be a professional beauty to succeed—but besides the fact that her...
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Don't Stop Beliebing
...It’s interesting also that this last line comes from Britney’s latest single, because the two contenders for her position as most profitable female pop singer, Gaga and Ke$ha, occupy the...
Women in armed struggle
...and services, but the entire quality of our life, our sexuality as procreative function, and the very conditions of procreation. Therefore, to cite just the latest and most noted example...
Steal This Article
...downloading it for free on The Pirate Bay? Yeah, keep not doing that. Ashton Kutcher will be just fine, unfortunately. Send some money to a janitor at Universal Studios if...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Artificial Advancements
Technological innovation is not an inherent good for disabled people, especially when the focus is on cure over care
Making Black Lives Matter in the Mall of America
...the latest in a long chain of extrajudicial police murders of black people, which are only one facet of an entire complex of systemic oppression. In Minnesota, infant mortality rates...
Christian Marclay Goes to Bollywood
...sky. In the other filmic staple, a sudden torrential downpour sets the stage for a conveniently soaked sari and passionate almost-clench, but it’s always sunny in Switzerland. Cut to Gstaad,...
How to Talk About the Weather
...through weather events, but the difficulty is that we can never be totally sure whether these weather events, which have multiple and often indirect causes, how we can relate them...