Run It Back 2025 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 28th, 2026 This month we reflect on the year gone past and how the spirit of revolution never really dies.
Run It Back 1964 By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 26th, 2025 Even though Hemingway doesn’t quite know what to do with them, each woman present in this book (whether in the text or its making) is undeniably influential on him and his work.
Run It Back 1975 By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 3rd, 2025 Even those who cling to thrones must die eventually.
Run It Back 1981 By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 3rd, 2025 If art as a whole has a grand purpose, it is to push beyond the normal, to break the boundaries of what we believe is possible.
Run It Back 2024 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2025 The question of art’s utility becomes especially mired in complexity when we think about how much of Black/Queer art is eulogy.
Run It Back 1985 By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 8th, 2025 Writer/Director Piotr Szulkin’s vision of post-apocalyptic survival in O-Bi O-Ba: The End of Civilization is a grim one.
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.
