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Small Fires

Coming-of-age is hindsight, in truth. By the time you realize it’s happening, you’ve already been irrevocably changed.

Apr 19, 2019

Small Fires

Apr 19, 2019

With When I Get Home, Solange Knowles Reaffirms What It Means to Be a Black Woman, and an Auteur

The album is an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to recalibrate the way black women and art have been pejoratively interlaced.

Apr 9, 2019

With When I Get Home, Solange Knowles Reaffirms What It Means to Be a Black Woman, and an Auteur

Apr 9, 2019

Our Love Affair With Streaming is About to get Mighty Complicated

As it stands, Netflix and the like are no different from the very structural constraints it sought to liberate us from.

Mar 26, 2019

Our Love Affair With Streaming is About to get Mighty Complicated

Mar 26, 2019

Kicking and Screaming: the Rejection of Tired Tropes by Indie Rock’s Next Generation of Women

The resulting candor is a measure of how layered women’s experiences can be for those songwriters brave enough to remain unflinching.

Dec 10, 2018

Kicking and Screaming: the Rejection of Tired Tropes by Indie Rock’s Next Generation of Women

Dec 10, 2018

Falling In Love With the Women Who Taught Me Not To Be Nice

It took me nearly two decades to unlearn the lie we women have been told: that our propriety is the only thing that matters.

Dec 10, 2018

Falling In Love With the Women Who Taught Me Not To Be Nice

Dec 10, 2018

On the Parallels of Love and Oppression in Carol (2015) and Disobedience (2017)

Comparing both films brings to light thought-provoking conclusions about the varying levels of oppression, and the varying degrees of love.

Dec 10, 2018

On the Parallels of Love and Oppression in Carol (2015) and Disobedience (2017)

Dec 10, 2018

Rock and a Hard Place: the Mental Illness/Paranormal Disturbance Parallel in The Haunting of Hill…

Is this one long metaphor for madness, or is The Haunting of Hill House just a very nuanced ghost story?

Dec 10, 2018

Rock and a Hard Place: the Mental Illness/Paranormal Disturbance Parallel in The Haunting of Hill…

Dec 10, 2018

Wayward Men and the Troubled Women Who Love Them: Love, Death and Relationship Dynamics in Classic…

If thrillers are to be believed, falling in love is as dangerous as walking down a dim, dark street at night.

Oct 11, 2018

Wayward Men and the Troubled Women Who Love Them: Love, Death and Relationship Dynamics in Classic…

Oct 11, 2018

To Hell With Composure

Composure is learned when one sees that the world has no place for those who are falling apart, quietly or in all manners of slovenliness.

Sep 27, 2018

To Hell With Composure

Sep 27, 2018

Validating Unchecked Anger: Solange, E. E. Cummings, and the Power of Enduring Fury

Letting things go is synonymous with grace and release. But there's another form of release, raw and liberating, that can be found in…

Jul 27, 2018

Validating Unchecked Anger: Solange, E. E. Cummings, and the Power of Enduring Fury

Jul 27, 2018

A. Martine

A. Martine

Artist, writer, cinephile, musician, knitter, cat lover, habitual line stepper. Away in the TARDIS at the moment. | www.amartine.com

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