Viola Davis’s black feminist G20: from amazons to Amazon

When you stream the movie “G20,” you’re staring right into the multiracial, femonationalist heart of reactionary liberalism.

The Aversion to a More Furious Road: Feminism and the Mad Max Sequels

Jess Flarity **CONTAINS SPOILERS for all the Mad Max films** Like many Mad Max fans, I watched Road Warrior (1981)… Read more The Aversion to a More Furious Road: Feminism and the Mad Max Sequels

By Miranda Mellis The ‘mental health’ epidemic, the depression and anxiety epidemic, the loneliness epidemic. It seems that feelings are… Read more Patriarchal Realism: On The Banshees of Inisherin

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 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 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 In his chapter from Capital, “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof,” Karl Marx asserts that under… Read more Killer Capitalist Clothes in In Fabric, Slaxx, and Deerskin

by Sophie Lewis | N.B. This short review was originally posted on Sophie’s patreon, reproutopia, which we encourage you to… Read more The Barely-Managed Heart in Zero Fucks Given