For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Carnage: Reflections on The Drama (2026)

Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli’s newest feature has provoked a maelstrom of contentious discourse over its bold take on a uniquely American problem, yet the racialized gender complexities of its black female lead, Emma (played by Zendaya), seem to be the last thing on anybody’s mind, least of all Borgli’s. Are audiences missing the true drama at the core of The Drama? Let’s discuss.

I Saw The Tragic Mulatto Glow: The Black Queer Complexities of Jane Schoenbrun’s Trans Horror

Horror has a colorism problem, and I Saw The TV Glow is a part of it, but the film has something important to say about black queer life. Let’s discuss.

You Must Not Know ‘Bout Dre: Embracing Black Mess in “Swarm”

Swarm has a lot to say about parasocial relationships, digital identities, and black queer pathology, but all anyone seems to care about is Donald Glover. Let’s discuss.

Big Momma Problems: On The Criticism of Octavia Spencer’s “Ma” Trailer

Octavia Spencer’s new Blumhouse horror film Ma is generating a lot of buzz, but it’s also generating a lot of colorist fatphobic discourse. Let’s discuss.

The Culture of Love: How Polyamory Challenges What We Know About Intimacy

It’s a question virtually all of us will have been stumped by at some point in our lives: what is love? Though of course our answers vary across the board, culturally speaking love is something that for centuries has been understood as a bond or connection solely between two people. Most of us have accepted this definition as fully encompassing what love entails. But can something as vast as love really be reserved for only two people at a time?

Boys Will Be Murderers: How Women Fiction Writers Are Complicit In Patriarchy

Many women writers are finding their voice in the domestic noir thriller subgenre, and audiences are eating their work up. But are these novels doing more harm than good to gender dynamics? Are women writers reinforcing sexism? Let’s discuss.

The Underlying Horror of “Room”

Hey folks. I recently watched the Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay film ‘Room’ in theatres, and it really affected me. Usually I would write some goofy, long-winded post about how much I loved it and make all these jokes blah blah blah but I have little capacity for humor after watching this film. I’ll try […]

This Ain’t No Good Witch: Race and Gender in Roger Egger’s “The Witch”

So I watched The Witch, the movie that the Guardian calls “a tremendously creepy, immersive horror piece”, the movie that Jex Blackmore, national spokesperson of the Satanic Temple, calls “a declaration of feminine independence”, the movie that the director himself Roger Eggers calls “a Puritan’s nightmare, uploaded into the audience’s mind’s eye.” And it was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.

Pull The Trigger: The Ethics of Political Correctness – Blog Post #1 (Week 1)

So this is my first blog ever, and I feel, like, totally amazing. This is so surreal, you guys. I’m like, totally blushing dude. Anyway *coughs out parodying Valley accent*, let’s talk about these two articles sent courtesy of my TA Dylan. They’re both very interesting perspectives on censorship and the limits of the human […]

The Poetic Xenolith*: Black Queer Media Musings

*(Ancient Greek: "foreign rock") – a rock fragment within an igneous rock that does not come from the original magma, but has been introduced from elsewhere.