Friday, September 9 2011

Connect the Dots: Transgender Narratives in Pop Culture

By Matt Mazur

Transgender representation in modern film, television, and literature blurs the lines of gender, class, race and sexuality, which is precisely why trans narratives are still considered dangerous.

Thursday, June 23 2011

Summer Is Electric With Electronic Music Festivals

By Sachyn Mital

Fans of electronic music will find a lot of massive events going on around the US this summer. Here are a few to look out for.

Thursday, July 23 2009

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

By Michael Buening

By saying Not is not Sidney Poitier, the reader is tempted to compare him to Sidney Poitier just as the characters do, when the author is pointedly saying that we shouldn’t.

Tuesday, December 16 2008

Capturing the Abstract in the Concrete

By Shaun Huston

What do the worlds contained within comics, within and between panels, tell us about the worlds in which we live out our lives?

Thursday, December 11 2008

Local

By shathley Q

From the opening chapter where Megan makes powerful decision to jettison her boyfriend's codependency to the final chapter where Megan confronts the memory of her mother in their family home, Local demonstrates the need for a greater 'oppositional'.

Monday, February 19 2007

Weird Sister and Red

By Sean Ferrell

All witches must have been, at some point, as cool as these girls are.

Wednesday, September 20 2006

Supermarket

By Andrew Welsh

The ending provides very little closure and the strong anti-consumerism sentiment of the beginning feels like a distant, unrelated musing.

Friday, September 1 2006

Lucifer

By Stephen Rauch

"Because God said so" is no longer an acceptable answer.

Monday, August 8 2005

Love and shopping

By Rob Horning

Tuesday, September 9 2003

Identity (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

As James Mangold neatly puts it, these characters are running along 'a kind of Möbius strip of hell.'"