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
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 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”
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
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’
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”