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Everything Everywhere All at Once, an ADHD manifesto.
Under the fluorescent lights of the IRS office, Evelyn Wang embodies the chaotic experience of…
How Moonlight exposes the cost of defensive masculinity.
Moonlight demonstrates that masculinity can function as a survival strategy in Black contexts, training boys…
Memory, as institutional property in Severance.
In Apple TV’s Severance, Mark Scout’s consciousness is split into an “outie” with a full…
Adolescence is an autopsy of modern boyhood.
Four minutes into Netflix’s Adolescence, armed police drag 13-year-old Jamie Miller from his bedroom after…
Today’s lesson: Abbott Elementary teaches us about unconscious systemic internalization.
Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Emmy mic-drop celebrates self-worth as if inferiority is something you can simply…
The gamification of selfhood in Black Mirror.
In Black Mirror’s “Nosedive,” Lacie Pound rehearses her laugh in the mirror because in her…