Vote or Die: Your Pre-Election Guide
2020 is not the year to wallow in despair about how little your one vote matters. Here’s how to vote.
The Superhero Industrial Complex
Superhero moves offer simple solutions to simple threats. There are bad guys and good guys and nothing in between. The Boys takes that view and turns it in on itself. There are no good guys and bad guys: there are simply corporations and people fighting for power. And they can do whatever they want.
Boshemia in Paris : What Emily in Paris Gets Wrong (and Right)
Boshemia designer and contributor Lauren Elizabeth, who lived in France for close to seven years, reacts to Emily in Paris.
Rootbound
I’m sure that once, not so long ago, this green grow-pot was the perfect size and shape and fit for those poor roots. It’s nobody’s fault – plants grow. This one was just long overdue.
On Moving Back to Appalachia
I’m uncomfortable with how Appalachian identity works in the media and in academia, both because I think it’s a problematic identity that I hold too dearly and because I think I’m faking it.