Why Can’t I Stop Watching ‘Love Island’?
I’m a middle-aged, straight-passing, monogamous feminist desperate to make known my progressive and professional creds. So why am I unashamedly obsessed with Love Island?
Racheal Fest
Racheal Fest is a writer and critic based in Central New York. Her critical and creative work has appeared in venues such as Colorado Review, Euphemism, NOVUS, Litmosphere, Lemonwood Quarterly, Entropy, Mediations, Jump Cut, Politics/Letters, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Pushcart (2025), and her manuscript, Future Ghosts of Pittsburgh, was longlisted for Alternating Current’s 2023 Electric Book Award in fiction.
At Community Arts Network of Oneonta, she hosts Writers Salon, a public reading series featuring established and emerging writers local to the Catskills and beyond. She teaches courses in English and supports faculty pedagogy at SUNY Oneonta. Find links to her published essays and stories on her website, rachealfest.com.