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Between Politics and Pop Culture: Watershed Takes on Fall 2019

This semester, Watershed members tackled the space between politics and pop culture with critical analysis of our post-truth world....

The Art of the Historemix

Photo Credit Listen up let me tell you a story A story that you think you've heard before We know you know our names and our fame and our...

On the Media and the Crowd

A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate...

Queer Intimacy, Queer Art: Impressions from James Lowell Brunton's "Opera on TV"

Recently, I have been reading personal accounts of men who sought after HIV from one another, what is often called 'bugchasing' and...

HoTE Review: Claire Colebrook's "What Would You Do (And Who Would You Kill) in Order to Sav

This is an exciting year for the Humanities on the Edge speaker series, as it is celebrating its 10th year. The second of this year’s...

Humanities on the Edge Preview: Claire Colebrook

In keeping with the Halloween spirit, the next lecturer in the Humanities on the Edge speaking series, Dr. Claire Colebrook, will focus...

Patriarchy, Virginity, and Reclamation in Hocus Pocus

First released in 1993, Disney’s Hocus Pocus was considered a critical failure, losing nearly $16 million and running in theatres only a...

Don't Make Me Choose, Please: Labor Exclusive of the Body or the Mind (?)

I need to talk about something said to me recently by someone in the academic world, when they assumed that I had been doing “more...

Netflix's Queer Eye and Disability Representation

I want to begin by making something very clear: I love Queer Eye. I think it’s a fun and sometimes inspirational show that encourages...

Tucker Carlson, John Bolton, North Korea, and the Politics of “Killing People”

[T]he ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must...