A Quiet Place is a scary movie. Set in a near future, it tells the story of a family that has survived an invasion of blind creatures with hyper hearing, a trait that makes it all the easier for them to hunt their prey: humans. Moreover, it tells the story of a family...
I remember reading in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God in my feminist texts course during my first year of college. “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.” Nearly everyone around me had already read the book,...
One of the things I most loved about Father’s Day 2k17 was that my dad asked to go see Wonder Woman to celebrate. My dad has always been a feminist, and not the kind who has a problem with the word. When we were young, my sister and I each played sports on teams...
My Oscar party crew was a pretty representative cross-section of my community: women, trans and nonbinary folks, people of color, queers, and a cat. We hadn’t seen a lot of the nominated movies, but we had very strong opinions on who we wanted to win and who we wanted...
In college, I wrote a paper about Negro Faggotry, particularly as represented by the “Men on Film” bit on the sketch comedy show In Living Color. The term “negro faggot,” coined by queer Black filmmaker and professor Marlon Riggs, refers to a stereotype about Black...
