This essay contains spoilers for Virgin River. Have you ever wanted to run away from your life and go to […]
Narrative Privilege and the Power of Pose
This post contains spoilers for the full series of Pose, including the series finale. Dorian Corey began her career as […]
Reproductive Designs and the Stories Behind Them: A Review of Designing Motherhood
Today almost all IUDs (intrauterine devices) look like the letter “T,” with arms that slightly droop and a string that […]
Mare of Easttown: Not Just Another Dead Girl Show
The HBO crime drama Mare of Easttown captivated viewers, who flocked to social media with theories about who killed Erin […]
Honor to Us All: What Trans Men Gained and Lost in Mulan (2020)
My parents took me to see Mulan for my ninth birthday. Appropriately for someone raised as a girl, they bought […]
Portraying Abortion in Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Film and TV portrayals of abortion in the last decade have become both more prevalent and complex. Take the different […]
“There’s Only One Way This War Ends”: New Ways of Telling a Familiar Story in Sam Mendes’s 1917
In the spring of 1917, the German Army was recouping from enormous losses suffered at the Somme, Verdun, and in […]
Waiting for a Death Revolution: A Review of HBO’s Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America
I can’t decide what to do with my corpse. Embalming, the bread-and-butter of the American funeral industry, feels wrong. Is […]
Hannah Gadbsy and the Comedy of the History Lecture
She had me at Douglas’ Pouch. The Mary Toft reference was just a bonus. I went to Hannah Gadsby’s stand up […]
Exhibition Review: Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
One hundred years after the 1918 flu epidemic, Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis opened at the Museum of the […]
