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Essays and Interviews

Selected Essays and Interviews

Where’s My Black Girlhood?

The whitewashing of the cinematic femme boom.

Late Mourning

On spurious timelines of grief

“Malibu’s Most Wanted” at 20: Black Culture as Food for All

The social product of the first generation raised with saturated accessibility to Black culture.

Analyzing the Great Fall

A “scientific” scrutiny on my falling in love.

Changeling Trouble

On a shockingly chaptered, complicated personal affair with the doppelgänger phenomenon.

 

Nightcrawler” at 10: The Private is Public

On the accessibility of citizen-made news media.

An Interview with the Makers of “Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail?”

A discussion with writer-director Bec Pecaut, producer Emily Harris, and star Lío Mehiel.

An Interview with Cheryl Dunye

A conversation about her under the radar film, “Stranger Inside” (2001).

“Crash” in the Context of Toxic Internet Culture

The extreme relationship between people, gratification, and technology.