Critical Analysis… [ISSUE I] Coffee and Creativity: Why the Coffee Shop created The Beatles by Daisy May Cooper 11 Apr 2022 image source The coffee shop is something that everybody relates to. They’re on every street, and all serve a similar purpose — a warm, sheltered space, perfect for working in…
Critical Analysis… [ISSUE I] Love in the Time of Covid: The Emerging Hybrid of Quarantine Fics and Coffee Shop AUs by Katharine E. McCain 11 Apr 2022 In March of 2020 Archive of Our Own, known colloquially as AO3 to those who frequent the fanfiction site, began to buckle under an unprecedented amount of traffic. Moving from…
Critical Analysis… [ISSUE I] Bean There, Drank That by Anushka Bidani 11 Apr 2022 Notes on "Bean There, Drank That" After Bryony Bates’ stunning text “Hannibal Lecter’s Magic Dick Therapy,” published by MAI in 2018. First sentences are revealing. As a reader, I usually…
Critical Analysis… Examining the Moonlighting Curse by Tiana Gaudioso 30 Oct 202117 Oct 2024 It was a cultural reset. This is a phrase casually thrown around on the Internet nowadays amongst Gen Z, and some Millennials, when discussing a piece of art that has…
Critical Analysis Women and Flower Power: Uncovering the Inter-‘Tangled’ Structures of Gender and Sexuality in “The Lais of Marie de France” and in “Tangled” by Danielle Straus 2 Oct 2021 “Oh, great. Now I'm the bad guy” (Mother Gothel, Tangled). Enclosed by Flynn’s narrative on both ends, the plot of Disney’s 2010 Tangled situates itself within the frame of male…
Critical Analysis… Stucky: A Timeline of Social Change by Prithiva Sharma 12 Sep 202117 Oct 2024 We’re Out in the Open, a Steve Rogers/James “Bucky” Barnes (Stucky) narrative is one of the more popular ones in online fandom culture. The ship has more than 50k fanfictions…
Critical Analysis… A Romance of the Histories by Prithiva Sharma 5 Sep 202117 Oct 2024 The largest grossing movie of 2019, Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame concluded a decade long cinematic saga that had started in 2008. Surprisingly, it left fans unsatisfied, and led to the exponential…
Critical Analysis Explosive Un-Settlement and Unbridled Wildness: Traversing the Landscape of Deconstruction in Harjo’s Ecopoetics with the Help of Derrida’s Différance by Danielle Straus 6 Aug 2021 The introduction of the horse to the North American landscape changed the fabric of society, presenting new vehicles through which nations saw themselves in relation to the space around them.…
Critical Analysis… The McLennon Effect: A Conversation with Chloe & Daisy from All About The Girl Podcast by Anushka Bidani 18 Jul 202131 Oct 2023 All About The Girl Podcast Chloe and Daisy talk about the women in the Beatles story. They discuss their lives, their work, and their extraordinary impact. Find them here! Anushka…
Critical Analysis Queer & Gender Bending Star Trek Episodes by Justin(e) Norton-Kertson 21 Jun 202117 Oct 2024 The promise of queer representation in Star Trek was delayed for too long by the death of visionary founder, Gene Roddenberry. Even still, the franchise has done more than most…