Film

I knew I wanted hormones. It wasn’t a question of how or why, but when. Changing your body is scary — and takes time. I could say that taking testosterone…

Protagonist Ellie Chu is right. The Half of It is not a love story. It’s a movie built out of loving glances and hopeless yearning from afar. It doesn’t tell…

Of all the icons that sprung from the 1990s, no one has made me feel “seen” like the titular character in the MTV cartoon series Daria. Growing up in the…

TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to sexual assault and violence that may be triggering to some. In early April, my boyfriend and I were walking in the little park…

Warning: contains spoilers. Hunter Conrad (Girl on a Train’s Haley Bennett) is wrapped in a time warp sweater of baby-blue cashmere. For a would-be artist who favors color, the surrounding…

The novel and film Gone with the Wind is a huge footnote in the history of America’s Jim Crow era. Among its main characters are Ashley Wilkes, once a southern…

Stacey Ryan did not think of himself as the hero of an environmental justice documentary. Ryan agreed to work with filmmaker Alexander Glustrom and the team of Mossville: When Great…

Untitled – When I put my hands on your body, Wojnarowicz, 1990 “There are so many strangers crying in England these days…” Filmmaker Derek Jarman says in his classic memoir,…

‘Like being struck by lightning’ Sometimes in life we have epiphanies or pivotal moments that, looking back, we realize changed the course of our lives. The new course may steer…

Warning: This article contains spoilers In Norman Lebrecht’s Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, he introduces anxiety – defined as “a sense of dread or apprehension” and…

Little Fruit from Sayuri Ayers on Vimeo. Sayuri Ayers is a poet and essayist from Columbus, Ohio. She loves experimenting with the visual arts, especially stop-motion animation. Sayuri’s work appears…

As I was obsessing about sweet Arthur Fleck and super-hot Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, like many others, I started following online all of those thousand social media groups posting a thousand…

Note: This essay contains significant spoilers of the film Parasite. Unlike tangible objects, such as purses, eyeglasses and cars; or, how someone eats their food; crooked teeth, plastic surgery, limited…

A tomboy who chafed at dresses and dolls, I turned up my nose at Little Women and the boringly harmonious, beribboned girls who adorned the cover of my mother’s well-worn…