Entertainment
Joshi: a Love Letter to Japanese Women’s Wrestling and Its Stars
January 8, 2021
Joshi: a Love Letter to Japanese Women’s Wrestling and Its Stars
America has always had a glass ceiling for women in professional wrestling, a glass ceiling that Japanese women wrestlers have…
What It’s Like to Watch “Happiest Season” as a Queer, Black Woman
December 8, 2020
What It’s Like to Watch “Happiest Season” as a Queer, Black Woman
For all the praise “Happiest Season” has earned for queer representation, however, the film is also a frustrating reminder that…
Welcome to the Neighborhood: What Marvel’s WandaVision Reminds Us About Sitcoms, American Suburbia, and the Treatment of Wanda Maximoff
November 30, 2020
Welcome to the Neighborhood: What Marvel’s WandaVision Reminds Us About Sitcoms, American Suburbia, and the Treatment of Wanda Maximoff
Though it bears the familiar Marvel Studios logo, "WandaVision" is a sci-fi show all the same. Anything that looks or…
The Misogyny of ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’: On Superficial Social Commentary and Women as Fantasies Not People
November 18, 2020
The Misogyny of ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’: On Superficial Social Commentary and Women as Fantasies Not People
The film and its characters are self-aware about the misogyny in the “manic pixie dream girl” trope due to the…
Statement of Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and Call for Collective Action
June 3, 2020
Statement of Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and Call for Collective Action
As a newsmagazine that operates with anti-racism at its center, it is imperative that we speak about George Floyd’s murder…
Quarantined but Dancing: All My Favorite Songs While the World Is Closed
May 25, 2020
Quarantined but Dancing: All My Favorite Songs While the World Is Closed
These are not songs to mourn these times but to get both groovy and cozy.
A (Brief) Alternative History of Punk
April 13, 2020
A (Brief) Alternative History of Punk
Punk is about being fed up, yes, but it’s also about creating spaces for marginalized communities to have their voices…
‘Sex Education’ and Its Display of Transformative Anger
March 29, 2020
‘Sex Education’ and Its Display of Transformative Anger
“Sex Education” does a brilliant job at conveying female rage in one individual scene in one individual episode, “The Girls…
‘I Am Not Okay With This’: Netflix’s New Telekinetic White Girl
March 29, 2020
‘I Am Not Okay With This’: Netflix’s New Telekinetic White Girl
If I described a white girl with telekinetic abilities in a dress covered in blood you would think I was…
The Fantabulous Emancipation of the Birds of Prey
March 26, 2020
The Fantabulous Emancipation of the Birds of Prey
By the end of the movie, each woman is given the chance to carve her own place in the world,…