"Listen to us! We've been out of the Bronx for years but we still sound like idiots! It doesn't just go away. She doesn't have that in the way she talks."
Perfect Victims is a polemic asserting the Palestinian right to self-defense. It's also a repudiation of the media's racist insistence that Palestinians must, above all else, consider the feelings of those carrying out their annihilation.
Mariya spends a significant portion of her days as this cartoon character, at once wholly real while being completely artificial. She is a professional performer, although her stage is virtual. Instead of a glimpse into a room or a home, her surroundings are fully drawn - she could be in a beach setting one day and an ornate office the next.
Fire was once the most fundamental resource for human survival. Now in the twenty-first century, people are completely disconnected from fire's role in the natural world. Colonialism is at least partially responsible for this amnesia; Black and Indigenous peoples' fire practices have been continually erased.
I stumbled across Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show may have been barely audible, but it hit me like a lightning bolt. I secretly yearned for a more alternative lifestyle.
As an Australian-Iranian citizen, I feel caught between two countries and two identities, painfully aware that escalation serves no one and peace cannot be imposed through fear.
"Coney's not just where the sideshow survived. It's where it evolved. There's a hierarchy in circus life, and at Coney Island, disabled performers - 'naturals,' as they call themselves - sit at the very top."
Are representation and resemblance their own mandate of heaven? Or, as Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot puts it, what would happen if, just a few steps down the line of inheritance, there were a guy who loved being a little bitch in bed?
Music, despite its aesthetic ridicule, can transcend genres and identities, creating unexpected connections and communities that embrace diversity in taste.
