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“If a Girl Isn’t Pretty”: When Beauty Is the Ideal and Humor the Fallback
“Being a funny girl like Fanny continues to skew the way I see myself.”
On the Internet, Everybody Knows You’re a Horndog: On “Beach Rats” and Gay Chat Rooms
Remembering the online world of gay chat rooms in the digital moment before social media.
What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity
“Miyazaki tells us something about bodies in flux: There is no easy answer; only the conflict, the question.”
Their Songs: The Ballad of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin collaborated to create timeless pop songs during the 1970s.
They Don’t Speak For Us: Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ in the Age of Collapse
There’s a latent sense of hope tinged with rage tucked away in the album.
Situational Ethics for Toddlers: Explaining ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Hamilton,’ and Stonewall Jackson to My Rebel-Obsessed Daughter
What makes one rebellion just and the next unjust?
Justin Bieber Is My Lesbian Icon
It’s not about getting away with things. It’s about becoming more comfortable with myself.
True Love Will Find You: My Afternoon in Daniel Johnston’s Dining Room
Johnston’s instrumental arrangements and shrill vocal style satisfied a primitive urge in me.
‘The Shining,’ Domestic Violence, and the Architecture of Horror
“Horror isn’t in the gothic and ghostly, but in the people we’re taught to love. Horror is close to home.”
What Would Captain Janeway Do?: On Depression, My Lost Year, and Star Trek: Voyager
How rewatching ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ shed new light on a lost year of my life.