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.
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.
Run It Back 1934 By Oluwatayo Adewole • July 27th, 2023 In this case it seems dear reader, that the enemy of our enemy is not quite a friend – or at least they’re one who we shouldn’t invite to stay in our home.
Run It Back You’ve Gotta Stop Living Like You’re Already Dead By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 29th, 2023 What use is it to name the knife that slides between your ribs if you can’t let yourself be helped?
