pop culture weekend
I became a parent, and you won't believe what happened next! (Spoilers: I found watching scenes of children dying or being endangered almost completely unbearable.)
pop culture weekend
Just how conservative is country music anyway?
criticism
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.
pop culture weekend
August kicks off with the three of the most prominent women of our time: Taylor Swift, Leigh Bardugo, and Bluey.
trans
What if your sexuality transitions too? What then?
pop culture weekend
This week includes thoughts on Wayne's World, Into the Woods, A Fever in the Heartland, Barbie, and Oppenheimer.
Episodes 6.0
Across the Spider-Verse
(Since I published my last newsletter, SAG-AFTRA joined the WGA in a strike against the AMPTP. SAG-AFTRA has asked its members to cease promotion of projects for AMPTP signatories. I'm not a SAG-AFTRA member, and journalism and criticism are not promotional. That said, I am also not strictly
open thread
trauma plot
More than a few reviews of director James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 damned it with faint praise along the lines of "This is as close as a director in the Marvel Cinematic Universe can get to making a personal statement." Usually, these reviews
Episodes 6.0
The last time I wrote anything for this newsletter, I was writing on a different platform. (Best of luck to Letterdrop, a wonderful platform that has opted to move in a different direction with its business model.) I was waiting for my child to be born and freaking out that
bake sale bunch
Excerpts from the classic book series about a bunch of trans women who love to bake (sale)