Complicity in practice and discourse (Jef Verschueren)
Review
Tom Van Hout
16/08/2023
4 minutes to read
In this thought-provoking essay, Jef Verschueren marshals progressive values of solidarity, community, and engagement and compels us to embrace and share responsibility for a healthier public sphere.
RuPaul's Drag Race brought lots of attention to drag outside of the drag community. This paper looks at how RuPaul's Drag Race takes its place in mainstream media.
Doctor Who: Is there a female Doctor just to lure in young fans? (Chris Chibnall)
Review
Ananya Sen
20/01/2021
10 minutes to read
This review of the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who discusses gender representation and its relation to fandom, and whether the move to cast a female Doctor was indeed a step in the right direction.
Body positivity is an online movement with an increasing amount of supporters. These body positivists used social media to spread their 'body positive' message. How do people respond to body positivity? And how can we recognize body positivity?
The Help (Movie director: Tate Taylor. Book author: Kathryn Stockett)
Review
Julia van der Staak
23/05/2018
7 minutes to read
The movie 'The Help', first released in 2011, is based on the well known and like-named novel, by Kathryn Stockett. The story is a good portrayal of multiculturalism and inequality within the American society of the 1960s.
After last year's #BritsSoWhite controversy, this year's Brit Awards finally showed ethnic diversity. It is about time other music award shows like the Grammys follow.
In this article, Anastasia Goana Go Ying Ying deconstructs the 'kapsalon shoarma'. She argues that the kapsalon can be read as an index of superdiversity.
