I grew up in Olive Branch, Mississippi. My life, until I went to college, revolved around church. I went to Sunday school, vacation Bible school, children’s ch...
Tok Thompson is a folklorist. He studies ghost stories and games and traditional music: the things we share in our tribal cultural groups. Over the past two de...
You might recognize sisters Aly and AJ from one of their acting projects. Maybe “iZombie” and “The Goldbergs,” if you’ve been watching cable in the past few years; “Phil of the Future” and “Cow Belles” if you were a Disney kid in the 2000s. ...
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...
Why are painful memories more permanent than others? How does storytelling bring back these memories? Listen to Clarissa Kerner discuss memory through a scient...
As the United States grapples with its relationship to the police, Hollywood has tried to reflect that struggle through storytelling. Two texts, in particular ...
Is there anything so dissociative as a mirror? That face that stares back at us is somehow neither what we see, nor what people see when they look at us. It’s ...
Jesus
is King is 27 minutes of Kanye speaking to the church of
Kanye. This is supposed to be a gospel rap album. Instead, this is an album
about a born-ag...
LaRayia Gaston is in the kitchen. One hand holds a pan simmering vegan tikka masala, while the other rides firmly on top of a blender as it churns almonds into...
