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Race Against Time: How White Fear of Genetic Annihilation Fuels Abortion Bans
by Carla Bell

May 3, 2022 Contributed By: Carla Bell

Still, in the foreseeable future the country will be, as Elliot puts it, “mostly brown.”

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays Posted On: May 3, 2022

The Naked and The Damned
by Julia Sirmons

April 25, 2022 Contributed By: Julia Sirmons

The Naked and The Damned

“He was soon to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany,” reads the tagline for Luchino Visconti’s 1969 film The Damned. It’s an improbable caption for the image below it: a man in drag.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: April 25, 2022

Nothing New in the West
by Clement Obropta

January 13, 2022 Contributed By: Clement Obropta

Nothing New in the West

The Old West is an invention, as fake as a ride at Disneyland. It’s a desert filled with paradoxes.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: January 13, 2022

I Know Who Orville Peck Is
by Robin Gow

December 9, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

Orville Peck

Often, I tell people, “I like the word queer both for my gender and my sexuality because it makes me feel free.” I love the capaciousness.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: December 9, 2021

Transgressive Divadom in Hedwig and the Angry Inch 
by Robert Stinner

November 18, 2021 Contributed By: Robert Stinner

Still of Film

The diva, by definition, surpasses her surroundings. Her towering presence commands attention, and everything else fades away.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: November 18, 2021

And You Yourself Calliope:
A Conversation with Rosie Stockton

October 26, 2021 Contributed By: David Brazil, Rosie Stockton

rosie stockton headshot

And of course, it’s always important to say that gender, like genre, is a racialized structure.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: October 26, 2021

Fragmentary Pleasures
by Yasmine Eve Lucas

October 11, 2021 Contributed By: Yasmine Eve Lucas

Venus de Milo

Before meeting Phil and Elizabeth, I’d hypothesized that longings for pity, care, or power might motivate or inform BIID desires.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: October 11, 2021

On The Member of the Wedding (and its adaptations) Seventy-Five Years Later
by Jennifer L. Gauthier

July 26, 2021 Contributed By: Jennifer Gauthier

The Member of the Wedding

It is said that McCullers remarked to a cousin about Lee, “Well, honey, one thing we know is that she’s been poaching on my literary preserves.”

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: July 26, 2021

The Perpetual Garden with Clement Oladipo and Kandis Williams
by Corey Durbin

July 2, 2021 Contributed By: Corey Durbin

Clement in his Studio

I rode my bike to Ridgewood, Queens, where Clement was already outside rolling a cigarette.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture, Featured Interviews, Interviews Posted On: July 2, 2021

Firewatch as Dating Sim + Whether It Can Heal Broken Hearts
by Clement Obropta

June 1, 2021 Contributed By: Clement Obropta

A hand holds a turtle

There’s something regenerative about a wildfire; many ecosystems have grown to depend on them, and they’re good at clearing out the moldy, dead stuff at the bottom of the forest.

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays Posted On: June 1, 2021

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