By Alva Gotby Two families, alike yet from different worlds, are the focus of Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite (2019). The… Read more Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity

By Johanna Isaacson Ginger Snaps rights a long-standing wrong in the history of horror film. The werewolf, a deeply embodied… Read more Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)

By Ben Furstenberg and Johanna Isaacson In an election last June, the Social Democratic party in Denmark handily beat the… Read more On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar

By Madeline Lane-McKinley From the outset Big Little Lies had great potential. Premiering in late February of 2017, the series… Read more Bigger & Bigger Lies

by Ken Ehrlich        “Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.” Aimé Cesaire  A grainy… Read more Networks, Infrastructures, Logistics: Mapping Capitalist Systems in Words and Pictures

by Alva Gotby Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2018 film Shoplifters is less about shoplifting and more about what it means to adopt… Read more Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters

by Johanna Isaacson In what follows I try to make sense of the life and work of Lizzie Borden, director… Read more Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden

by Noah Brehmer | A few years back something like a rave–or what was anyways called one–unfolded under the Baltica-highway in… Read more RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE

Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author of short stories and essays, an  LGBT activist, and a champion of African literary… Read more with binyavanga