MARCH

• standing on the shoulders of complex female characters

MAY

• BeReal and the Fantasy of Authentic Life
• The Gods Show Up

JUNE

• You Need Help: You’re Bisexual and Your Girlfriend Wishes You Weren’t
• who's afraid of amber heard?
• a little life is not your father
• I Am His Fantasy: On Anna Biller’s The Love Witch
• The Many Murders of the Self
• A Study in Ugliness
• We’re Always the Ones Who Leave

JULY

• The Pain of Special Needs in Mad Max: Fury Road
• Book Review: Arabian Nights
• I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

AUGUST

• Why Saying ‘It’s My Choice’ Doesn’t Necessarily Make Your Choice Feminist
• Failure to Cope Under Capitalism
• Is the Future Disabled?

When impairment is not accommodated, disability is produced.

• The Unified Theory of Ophelia

I make huge intuitive leaps and am too lazy to back them up with meticulous research.

• 'Tell Me I'm Worthless' and the didactic novel: a review

SEPTEMBER

• Heroines of Self-Hate
• Has Self-Awareness Gone Too Far in Fiction?
• Sally Rooney’s Politics of Millennial Resignation
• Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many anti-authoritarians. Having steered the higher-education terrain for a decade of my life, I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance.

• Ritualistically shaming public-facing women has become a cultural hobby

OCTOBER

• Recovering The Slumber Party Massacre
• (Apollo and Hyacinthus Die Playing Ultimate Frisbee, And I Died Watching Teenage Boys Play Video Games)

NOVEMBER

• 'A Simple Favor' and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing

The trope inherently plays into misogynistic fantasies about the “perverse” nature of women socializing amongst themselves—i.e. what women do when we’re alone, because the descent into both lesbianism and darkness occurs in these films almost always in the absence of men

• The Case against the Trauma Plot

With the trauma plot, the logic goes: Evoke the wound and we will believe that a body, a person, has borne it.

• The Lost Redemption Arc