Culture
How to organize a union: ‘The Porter’ and Black service industry militancy
July 6, 2022A joint production of the public Canadian Broadcasting Company and BET+, 'The Porter,' about the organization of the first Black union in North America, is exactly the series we need right now.
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‘To T, or Not To T? A Comedic Trans Journey through (T)estosterone and Masculinity’
July 5, 2022It turns out that, uh, like most important art, the specific becomes the universal once you peel back the cultural dress and uncover the human skin beneath it.
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‘The Beautiful People’: America’s toxic epidemic of hypermasculinity
July 1, 2022“This season at Rogue Machine we’ve committed ourselves to having difficult conversations."
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Darko Suvin’s fiery poetry and ‘Insubordinate Essays’
June 30, 2022In 2016, at the age of 86, Darko Suvin did something that would have taxed the energies of someone half his age.
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Plains, trains and automobiles: ‘Snowpiercer’ vs. ‘Lincoln Lawyer’
June 28, 2022How can we contrast Snowpiercer’s people’s transport vs. Lincoln Lawyer’s luxuriating while the planet burns?
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