Movies
Dev Patel in ‘The Green Knight’ Helped Me Manage My OCD
Many times I could have said the same as Gawain, terrified in the face what was to come, “I’m not ready. I’m not ready yet.”
Prison Visitation Isn’t Like the Movies
When my dad was incarcerated, I began noticing specific tropes that reinforce a cultural narrative about prison all around me.
The Real Villain in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is Toxic Work Culture
Fifteen years after it premiered, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ continues to teach ambitious young people that exploitation is the price you must pay for success.
The Minari of My Memory
That plant in a park in Rhode Island delivered the promise that there might be something familiar in this place where everything was new.
Detangling the Myth of Colorblindness in ‘Cinderella’
What is lost in a story that chooses to make Brandy a princess and Whitney Houston a fairy godmother despite their Blackness, not because of it?
Attack of the Six-Foot Woman
Hannah Walhout on body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.
What ‘Poetic Justice’ Can Teach Us About Black Art Beyond Trauma
Can Black writing be seen as more than a product of our death and pain?
Sex, Lies, and Vampires: Rethinking ‘Twilight’ and Purity Rings
Without anywhere to talk about sex or process it, ‘Twilight’ offered an alternative space to unravel my own private desire.
‘The Mighty Ducks’ Movies Taught Me How to Survive a Pandemic
I’ve found an unavoidable kinship with the Ducks. It could be, at least in my estimation, a quintessentially black American story.
On Horror Movies and What It Means to Rewrite the Dead Girl
She is the page on which the story is written. Her body is a crime scene, and the victim of the crime, and the perpetrator of a crime, all at once.