Feature Story Thoughts for Sale By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2024 I have been struck by how much the prison and the suburb serve the same purpose.
Run It Back 1972 By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 30th, 2024 “Filth is my politics” isn’t just a catchy slogan. It’s a recognition that there is no version of us that will be accepted by a moralist fascist society.
Run It Back Cute By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 2nd, 2024 Kawaii is consumed by the West as beauty without threat, whereas the very designation of Blackness is full of threat. What does it mean for a Black woman to try and be “cute?”
Run It Back 1966 By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 28th, 2024 Much like Isherwood, Capote’s writing relies on a gay fly-on-the-wall positioning.
Run It Back 2011 By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 26th, 2024 Tayo heads back to 2011, taking a look at two films which show us how the world beyond etches itself onto our reality.
Run It Back 1995 By Oluwatayo Adewole • February 28th, 2024 In both Fallen Angels and The Doom Generation we follow dreamers.
Run It Back Sex and Cinema By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2024 At the same time as a quasi-accepting era which brings us more art focused on marginalized people, a soft Hayes Code re-emerges, allowing for the clean lines of queerness but not the smudges.
Run It Back 1979 2019 By Oluwatayo Adewole • December 1st, 2023 This month we turn our attention to Coppola’s 1979 epic Apocalypse Now, and more specifically to its 2019 Final Cut.
Funeral Rites Campfire Carnage Conjures the Real Monsters By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 25th, 2023 Campfire Carnage writer Valkyrie T. Loughcrewe sees potential for “campsite as being for horror games what a dungeon is to fantasy,” an iterative space through which you can tell all sorts of stories.
Run It Back 1982 By Oluwatayo Adewole • August 30th, 2023 This month we step on over to 1982 to discuss two films which tell the stories of a Black relationship on each side of the Atlantic.
