In this month’s Queer Cinema Catchup video essay, I dove into queer representation in the popular YA series The Summer I Turned Pretty. In this corresponding blog post, let me first fill you in on my relationship to the Belly, Conrad, Jeremiah…
Happy Father's Day! As I stated in Queer Cinema Catchup’s monthly video essay, the internet has defined Pedro Pascal as Daddy, reaching a particular fever pitch when the first season of The Last of Us aired back in 2023. Watch any of Pascal&rs…
In a Queer Cinema Catchup video essay, I took the time to explain how the first season of the HBO television series The Last of Us uses queer love stories to suggest something important about love as a universal concept. Unlike many great stories, T…
In Queer Cinema Catchup’s latest video essay, I examined how the use of reversals throughout a television series can, when considered alongside tone and character development, help us predict where a show might ultimately end. Specifically, th…
When I studied abroad at La Universidad de Sevilla in Spain, I took an art history course. As the class was in a foreign language and many, many years ago, I can only remember the most general of lessons. Zeus and his lightning bolt; Ares and his he…
I came out and began to call myself a writer in the same year. The year was—wait, that’s not right. I began an MFA program and wrote my way out of the—no! Sorry, not right either. Let’s try again. Just once more. In 2019, I…