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Mar 4

Outer Banks and the Plasticity of Black Life

Outer Banks feels like a movie. Glistening sunsets. Picture-esque outfits ripped straight out of an American Eagle catalog. The fortitude of teenage friendship. When Outer Banks came out in 20202, it comforted me. Being someone from a coastal city in the South specifically, OBX brings to light to the misadventures…

Outer Banks

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Outer Banks and the Plasticity of Black Life
Outer Banks and the Plasticity of Black Life
Outer Banks

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Jan 23

The Politics of Ratchetry

“Bitches not takin shit from be, but notes “Wanna be me so she do my emotes “And my name in her mouth, so I bet she gon choke(bitch) “To her man, I’m the girl of his dreams” –Ice Spice Our queen ate with these lyrics from new EP “Like..?” The…

Black Feminism

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The Politics of Ratchetry
The Politics of Ratchetry
Black Feminism

3 min read


Dec 21, 2022

Kit Connor, Heartstopper, and the Right to Opacity

Gonna be honest, Like how my good sis Latto says “First to watch my story but don’t like me, bitches weird”

Heartstopper

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Kit Connor, Heartstopper, and the Right to Opacity
Kit Connor, Heartstopper, and the Right to Opacity
Heartstopper

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Dec 15, 2022

dream like me

i remember sitting with him at the edge of California hearing him reminiscence about this white girl he used to love. it felt like a disruption in space and time when he reenacted their violent ties. she was toxic and he was obsessed with her brilliant blonde curls and glossy…

Stranger Things

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dream like me
dream like me
Stranger Things

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Dec 6, 2022

becoming (un)gendered

“[The New World], with its human sequence written in blood, represents for its African and indigenous peoples a scene of actual mutilation, dismemberment, and exile. First of all, their New-World, diasporic plight marked a theft of the body — a willful and violent (and unimaginable from this distance) severing of…

Race

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becoming (un)gendered
becoming (un)gendered
Race

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Nov 9, 2022

on black feminism as poetics

on black feminism as poetics suprise, suprise, and surprise, i advocate for feminism. this doesn’t come as a shocker for most people that know me in real life. my old high school classmates, my debate teammates — hell, even my fraternity brothers know. i love feminism. “why are you taking…

Feminism

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on black feminism as poetics
on black feminism as poetics
Feminism

3 min read


Oct 18, 2022

the messiness of being me

identity’s a bitch. black, non-binary, queer gamer, creative, dreamer some of these things i chose, and some of them i didn’t. they were just kind of thrown onto me. it also didn’t help that being part of Gen-Z means that i grew up chronically online. Overflows of information. Easily influenced. …

Race

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the messiness of being me
the messiness of being me
Race

5 min read


Sep 3, 2022

The Youth Are Coming For Your Necks

Yeah, that’s right. You did indeed read the title of this article correctly. If the success of shows and films like Riverdale, Bodies Bodies Bodies,Stranger Things, and Euphoria prove anything, it’s that the youth are making their impression and we intend to keep on. …

Science Fiction

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The Youth Are Coming For Necks
The Youth Are Coming For Necks
Science Fiction

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Jul 3, 2022

We Keep Breaking The Future

Historic Moment. Historic Moment. Historic Moment. My generation has been blasted with this refrain too many times throughout our lives. …

Abortion

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We Keep Breaking The Future
We Keep Breaking The Future
Abortion

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Jun 26, 2022

A Slave Always and Forever

Synchronic was definitely not the journey I was expecting. “Why?” might you ask? Because the movie was bat-shit wild, just like the spectator watching it. Marketed as a sort of genre blend between science fiction, thriller, horror, and sometimes comedy, Synchronic follows the lives of two paramedics, Steve Denube and…

Science Fiction

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A Slave Always and Forever
A Slave Always and Forever
Science Fiction

4 min read

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Cam Wade

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