Another Look Surrounded by Strangers By Yussef Cole • March 28th, 2018 It is uniquely difficult coming to terms with your own identity when parts of your family, whether through language, distance or culture, feel like strangers.
Another Look PaRappa and Me By Yussef Cole • March 7th, 2018 Playing PaRappa now, I feel nostalgic about not only its mechanics and aesthetics but also its place in the long, weird journey I’ve taken with coming to terms with hip-hop and its implications for my own identity.
Another Look “Villains” By Yussef Cole • February 12th, 2018 Assassin’s Creed Origins is too quick to dispose of women of color antagonists who deserved a chance at redemption.
Another Look Dujanah By Yussef Cole • December 22nd, 2017 There’s a responsibility that comes with using the art, language and symbolism of another culture.
Another Look Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation By Yussef Cole • November 10th, 2017 I see a game that’s haunted by ghosts; the specter of black culture, appropriated first by the minstrel set then by the Fleischers, Disney and others.
