Repress and Reward: Compensatory Heterosexuality and Projections of Upper Caste Women in Indian Film

By Umar Nizarudeen An elderly scion of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore in Kerala recently courted controversy for her suggestion… Read more Repress and Reward: Compensatory Heterosexuality and Projections of Upper Caste Women in Indian Film

“Jawan”: Reimagining Masculinity in Indian Cinema

By Yanis Iqbal Spoilers Alert! In the 2023 film Jawan, actor Shah Rukh Khan takes on the dual roles of… Read more “Jawan”: Reimagining Masculinity in Indian Cinema

A few weeks ago I opened The Guardian to find that the voice of my middle-aged generation, Douglas Coupland, author of the… Read more Ex Machina: Refusing the Space Billionaire Sublime

By Jarred Wiehe Dysfluency haunted the soundscape of American politics in the Autumn of 2022.[1] Prior to the only televised… Read more Barbarian (2022) and the Politics of Dysfluency in Contemporary U.S. American Soundscapes

By Jess Flarity The cultural landscape around Barbie currently ebbs and flows like a kaleidoscopic tide. Everyone (writing reviews) seems… Read more Barbie: Welcome to the Pink Thunderdome

By Andreas Petrossiants – Mary N. Taylor and Noah Brehmer (eds.), The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization (Common Notions,… Read more Commoning for Autonomy/Autonomy for the Commons

By Johanna Isaacson Due to my horror film obsession, I stopped watching the Oscars and other Hollywood awards shows years… Read more Women’s Non-Naturalistic Acting in Contemporary Horror: Get Out, Hereditary, Us, and Pearl

By Katie Gibson “A romantic fervor drives…children to crime; they project themselves into the most magnificent, daring, and ultimately dangerous… Read more Bringing Abolition Home: Why Family Abolition Needs to be at the Heart of the Movement to Abolish Family Policing