By Johanna Isaacson I was recently asked an impossible-to-answer question: what five films would you recommend to a social-justice minded… Read more Political Horror 101: Reclaiming the culture we love for the world we want to see
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Laughing at Work: The Genre-Creep of Anti-Workplace Comedy in 2022
By Madeline Lane-McKinley In her 2021 book Work Won’t Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe makes the convincing case that “work… Read more Laughing at Work: The Genre-Creep of Anti-Workplace Comedy in 2022
Selling Yourself for Pretzel Sticks: Masculine Crisis in the Dystopian Triangle of Sadness
By Jess Flarity Swedish screenwriter and director Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness (henceforth, Triangle) was a controversial Palme d’Or winner… Read more Selling Yourself for Pretzel Sticks: Masculine Crisis in the Dystopian Triangle of Sadness
Flirting With Empowerment: Quentin Tarantino’s Troubling Depictions of Sexual Assault
By: Payton Alexa McCarty-Simas Quentin Tarantino, auteur director of such hyper-violent, exploitation-inspired films as Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained… Read more Flirting With Empowerment: Quentin Tarantino’s Troubling Depictions of Sexual Assault
“With your body we can supply an everlasting demand for submission”: Reproductive politics and Body Horror in Antibirth
By Johanna Isaacson With the visceral connection it makes between forced pregnancy and military-sanctioned torture, the 2016 psychedelic body horror… Read more “With your body we can supply an everlasting demand for submission”: Reproductive politics and Body Horror in Antibirth
“We Took Something that was Property and Made It Life”: On Everything for Everyone
By Juno Jill Richards [1] In the first year of the plague I watched all the dystopias. They were like… Read more “We Took Something that was Property and Made It Life”: On Everything for Everyone
Defamiliarizing Family: Abolish the Family Review
By Johanna Isaacson A decade ago, I sat in a large seminar classroom in which feminist luminary Kathi Weeks presented… Read more Defamiliarizing Family: Abolish the Family Review
All Girlbosses Are Bastards
By Nicole Froio Growing up in the 1990s, I was raised to believe that, despite my gender, I could achieve… Read more All Girlbosses Are Bastards
Killer Capitalist Clothes in In Fabric, Slaxx, and Deerskin
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
Hacking At Work
By Madeline Lane-McKinley Days into her new job punching up stand-up material for legendary comedienne Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), 25… Read more Hacking At Work
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