Hidden in Plain Sight

Female Vulnerability as Performance and Plot Device in Contemporary Horror

Nov 8 • 

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October 2025

The Summer I Was Desired

On the Enduring Success of the Two-Brothers Trope in Post-Feminist Media

Oct 7 • 

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September 2025

Who's Afraid of Merging with Their Significant Other?

An essay on the body horror revival, the movie TOGETHER, and loss of individuality as this decade’s greatest horror

Sep 23 • 

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June 2025

You Don't Own Me

Simulacra, Pin-Up Culture and Ownership in the Sabrina-verse

Jun 18 • 

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May 2025

To Live and Die in the Shadows

Violence and Sacrifice in the Mission Impossible Franchise

May 26 • 

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Yelling on the Red Carpet

Who gets to have public-facing fits?

May 16 • 

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April 2025

I'm Afraid I'm Not a Real Person Yet

On self-respect, potential, and that one Succession line

Apr 21 • 

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Desire, I Want to Tame You

Abject Desires, Nosferatu, and the Evolution of the Beauty and the Beast Trope

Apr 3 • 

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January 2025

No Sympathy for the Homewrecker!

misogyny as morality, the “girl’s girl” fallacy and the enduring obsession with the "other woman"

Jan 14 • 

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September 2024

Flip-Phone Nation

Dumb Phones, Analog, the Attention War, and Manufactured Nostalgia

Sep 18, 2024 • 

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August 2024

When God Sings with His Creations

Modern Spirituality, Gatekeeping Religion, and Personal Faith as a Revolution

Aug 21, 2024 • 

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195

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April 2024

Clean Room, Dirty Soul

On the Politics of Self-Care and the Sanitisation of Discomfort

Apr 30, 2024 • 

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