El Triste BY CIELO VALENZUELA-LARA How far are you willing to go to be accepted? Would you be willing to go into debt to buy Christmas presents for people you barely know? How about trying the newest fad diet where you only eat three cookies a day? Or buying two...
Paris Is Burning BY MARC FRANCIS The 1990 documentary Paris is Burning has slayed its way into the US film canon, implanting itself in documentary 101 and queer theory syllabi at college campuses across the world, and influencing wildly popular TV shows such...
Sounds Of A Seashell BY CIELO VALENZUELA-LARA A Response to Finlandia The ocean’s waves crashing in the depths of a seashell, pressed against a child’s ear, is sometimes the only form of libertad. Children are good at learning how to drown out the noise of their...
Catch The Fair One BY DHARMA LEMON Catch the Fair One (Kubota Wladyka, 2021) follows a young Native woman named Kaylee (Kali Reyes). She lives in a shelter and works at a diner but all we see at first is she is sleeping with a razor in her mouth clearly haunted by...
Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People BY CASSADY LÓPEZ We do not like people. People are cute, everything is cute these days. When we are exposed to an idea self-proclaimed as ugly or strange, we are given the opportunity to peer into something honest and candid. Let us...
