Smile! There’s a Cute Animal On-Screen.

By Tyler Thier This is a manifesto against cute animals. The kind that nameless sponsors of “art” force-feed us within… Read more Smile! There’s a Cute Animal On-Screen.

Sex, Drugs, and Femininity in McCabe and Mrs. Miller

By Payton McCarty-Simas McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Robert Altman’s seminal revisionist Western tragedy (recently re-released on Blu-ray by Criterion),… Read more Sex, Drugs, and Femininity in McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Miranda Mellis What is it that translates pricks of conscience into acts of conscience? What are the affordances that enable… Read more Alleviations

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 Yanis Iqbal What is a human being? Poor Things reveals the political stakes of this question by interrogating the… Read more How to Become a Mechanical Monster: Liberation from Tradition in “Poor Things”

By Olive Demar Malcolm Harris ends his far-reaching book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, with… Read more Shit, Cum, and Milk: On Relating to Institutions of Higher Education

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 Umar Nizarudeen An elderly scion of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore in Kerala recently courted controversy for her suggestion… Read more Repress and Reward: Compensatory Heterosexuality and Projections of Upper Caste Women in Indian Film