by Holly Genovese | Jul 22, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Queering the Prisoner Escape Narrative: Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” “Industry Baby,” the third single off of Lil Nas X’s 2021 album, Montero, alongside its music video, constitutes a queering of the prisoner escape narrative, a form often recognized and even...
by Randolph Marcum | Jul 21, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Lovecraft’s Nameless Things: Understanding Racial Ecologies in “Dagon” H. P. Lovecraft is everywhere these days, a multimedia star in death that he never became in life. His influence, perceptible in everything from recent noir (True Detective) to ’80s nostalgia...
by Brittney Jimenez-Bayardo | Jul 21, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Colonization and the Construction of Patriarchal Ideals into Chicanx Hip-Hop Beautiful women. Expensive cars. And groups of men standing around enjoying both. These are some of the key images associated with hip-hop. As a product of a culture that is deeply...
by Christina Santi | Jul 20, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Anything, Everything and Nothing Circle and Star Motif via Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Every day I was excited to enter my first-grade classroom. Finally, free from the shadows of my cousins and the chaos of our mothers seemingly building the parenthood...
by Natalia Affonso | Jul 20, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Contemporary Queer Brazilian Literature You Can Read in English Translation As a Brazilian translator living in the United States, I often find myself speaking of contemporary writers from my home country and their work. However, their literary production is rarely...
by Norrell Edwards | Jul 18, 2022 | Essays, Essays 2022
Coming Full Circle: Appreciating Black Educators Key Blue, Joseph Schillinger My fractured Jamaican and Caribbean identity has long been both an open wound and an inspiration. So, when my 10th-grade AP Global History teacher assigned us a research paper to write on...
