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You Know People Don’t Have to Say it, They Can Feel it: The Room as a Queer Text

Like many people who attended liberal arts school in the mid 2010s, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003) is embarrassingly integral to the emotional arc of my life. In summer of 2013, accepted students day at my first college was marked by a new friend explaining the mythos of the film in detail, and showing meContinue reading “You Know People Don’t Have to Say it, They Can Feel it: The Room as a Queer Text”

I Watched Onward (and I hate that I enjoyed myself)

Let the record show I’m a cynical person. Whether I choose to admit it to myself on any given day, I believe on a deep level that the earth is fucked and most people are cruel toward those they can’t see themselves in. I’m not the sort of person who glibly goes to see aContinue reading “I Watched Onward (and I hate that I enjoyed myself)”

Jojo Rabbit and the Complications of Satirizing Fascism

I was going to write about Yun Kouga’s Loveless this week, on the basis that I hadn’t read it since I was a teenager, and even then felt that the age gap dynamic was uncomfortable and weird. However, This Friday I was discharged from eating disorder treatment after 3 months in what was ostensibly aContinue reading “Jojo Rabbit and the Complications of Satirizing Fascism”

I Watched Caligula (Yes, All of it)

I’m going to start this off by admitting I consume a fair bit of fucked-up media. Not because I’m a disgusting monster (let’s hope), but because I’ll read about how harrowing something is to witness and my brain will go “it can’t be that bad, I bet I can handle it.” It’s like I’m tryingContinue reading “I Watched Caligula (Yes, All of it)”

Conflict is Not Abuse: Preliminary Thoughts

I first encountered Sarah Schulman’s Conflict is not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair in the theory section of Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia. I was working through accepting my own trauma at the time, and the idea that the toxic interpersonal relationships I had been in could be labeled simply “conflict”Continue reading “Conflict is Not Abuse: Preliminary Thoughts”

Mission statement?? I guess??

Helloooo friends and visitors, and welcome to my blogge. I decided recently that, as I transition out of intensive treatment for my fun and cool array of maladaptive behaviors, I need some sort of creative project to help me rediscover myself. An outlet that screams “look at me! I exist! I’m smart and have opinionsContinue reading “Mission statement?? I guess??”