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
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Commoning for Autonomy/Autonomy for the Commons
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
Women’s Non-Naturalistic Acting in Contemporary Horror: Get Out, Hereditary, Us, and Pearl
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
Imagined, Beloved Communities: a review of M.E. O’Brien’s “Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care”
By Johanna Isaacson What do we want for our futures— communities built on freely chosen love and care or a… Read more Imagined, Beloved Communities: a review of M.E. O’Brien’s “Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care”
Bringing Abolition Home: Why Family Abolition Needs to be at the Heart of the Movement to Abolish Family Policing
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
Between ‘Mothers’ and ‘Females’
By Eli Nova Rose As I write, it’s dark before dawn very early on a Saturday morning, and one kid… Read more Between ‘Mothers’ and ‘Females’
Chopping it Up and Burning it Down: Queer Camp in “Night Warning”
By Johanna Isaacson As we enter the age of the “social thriller,” horror is in a transformative moment. Films like… Read more Chopping it Up and Burning it Down: Queer Camp in “Night Warning”
HBO’s The Last of Us: Filming (in) Alberta
By Michael Truscello Like many Albertans, I was thrilled when HBO announced it would be filming The Last of Us TV adaptation in Alberta… Read more HBO’s The Last of Us: Filming (in) Alberta
“The Blade and the Executioner”: Funeral Parade of Roses, Psycho, and Queering the Monstrous Other
By Payton McCarty-Simas While Oedipus Rex is the most obvious reference point for Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses,… Read more “The Blade and the Executioner”: Funeral Parade of Roses, Psycho, and Queering the Monstrous Other
Precarious Performances: Unplannable Lives of Emotional Laborers in Parasite
By Johanna Isaacson The following is excerpted from Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror (Common Notions Press). You can purchase… Read more Precarious Performances: Unplannable Lives of Emotional Laborers in Parasite
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