At the end of CONTRA-TIEMPO’s joyUS justUS, the entirety of the stage and audience is dotted with stars. Beams come from above, freckling our faces a...
Rebecca Sugar’s Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe has been a source of progressive delight for both children and adults since 2013. A fantastical...
This essay was originally published at The Muse on Jezebel on December 2, 2019. Republished with permission.
In Netflix’s See You Yesterday, a young g...
As the United States grapples with its relationship to the police, Hollywood has tried to reflect that struggle through storytelling. Two texts, in particular ...
It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl. Boy dumps girl. Girl follows boy to Harvard Law School and bests him at every turn. Such is the story of one Elle W...
Like a generation of millennial women, I deeply identify with Andrea Sachs. The plucky heroine of The Devil Wears Prada endured a journey many of us know well;...
I am a Christian. My editor thinks it matters what sort, and I guess it does. The reason it might matter is that the sort of Christian I am is evangelical, and these days evangelicals are mostly known for voting for Trump (I didn’t), preaching prosperity (I haven’t), and taking mission trips to Mexico (I might’ve). They aren’t known for mysticism. ...
This essay was originally published at The Muse on Jezebel on November 6, 2019. Republished with permission.
Global income inequality has been on a steady r...
This essay was originally published in NYLON on October 18, 2019
At first glance, it’s hard to imagine how a film about a young boy in the Nazi Youth could ...
