Sex on screen is unnecessary, gratuitous, and serves no purpose. This is the sentiment on the rise as cinema becomes less and less sexy. Xuanlin Tham counters that sex scenes can open our minds and bodies to the possibility of new futures, and seduce us towards an expanded political imagination.
Drawing on Baldwin’s own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays – Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man’s Guilt – blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
10 radical Palestinian women speak between 2018-2021. Listening to their voices will help people outside of Palestine better understand them as allies in our global struggles for freedom.
Now Go enters emotional waters to interrogate not only how Studio Ghibli navigates grief so well, but how that informs our own understanding of grief’s manifold faces.