Content warnings: mentions of violence, rape, and war.

Avant-garde, also sometimes referred to as experimentalism, can be hard to define. Because its main goal and purpose is to defy and...

An intersectional analysis of the research and diagnosis of autism in girls and non-white children.

A short reflection on the disappearance and emergence of queer space in the film "Lan Yu" (2001)

I wrote this back in the summer when Barbie first came out but I never posted it. Trying not to be such a harsh critic of my writing,...

I argue that liberal choice feminist arguments are insufficient to justify the normalization and “empowering” narrative of sex work, as...

In James Udden’s, “No Man An Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien” he argues that the lack of conventional “drama” in Hsien’s film The...

I wrote this just for fun so it’s a bit less “polished” than my school essays - enjoy!

In Rosalind Galt’s “Pretty as Troublesome Image”, Galt discusses the concept of the “pretty” in melodrama, arguing that despite commonly...

In Julietta Singh’s “Unthinking mastery: dehumanism and decolonial entanglements” (2017) she explains the concept of mastery and how it...

I argue that despite changes and transformations in the war film genre over the years, one theme that remains constant is the...

In Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ essay, “end capitalism”, she discusses the suffering and destruction of marine mammals, arguing that their pain...

The anti war film The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki, 1959, West Germany) retroactively reasserts the values of WW2 by illustrating the...

In this essay, I look at how majoritarian stories affect the medical/healthcare system, and how it then impacts a person of colour’s...

In Kimberlé Crenshaw’s, Mapping the Margins, Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Colour, she argues that...

In this paper, I argue that in the film Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940, U.S.A), typical representations of women in film are...

**TW: discussions of sex, sexual assault and forced sterilization, specifically that inflicted upon Indigenous women** When Amber Musser...

Trigger warning: discussions of rape, grooming, MeToo, and Roman Polanski. Written August 2022. Not for school, just for fun. Spoilers ahead

Written July 2022.

Written March 2022 (when I had covid) (i still got a 90 though) Spoilers ahead!