Monica Hesse of The Washington Post writes about the new congressperson’s Instgram strategies as tactics for coalition building. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instragram can be found here.
Emma Parker, a PhD candidate a Leeds discusses the function of graphic stories sharing the real-life accounts of refugees and migrants. She writes, ‘By documenting real journeys, representing traumatic memories and…
Figure 1. Virunga Promotional Poster – Netflix. The Netflix documentary Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014) tells the story of Congo’s national park, Virunga, home to the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas. It…
Bowling for Impact Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore, USA, 2002) is arguably one of the most well-known documentaries of the 21st century. The Oscar-winning documentary, went beyond simply examining gun control…
In March 1990, Vogue was released as the first single in the second soundtrack album of Madonna, I’m Breathless. As the name indicates, it is a song inspired by “voguing”, a particular form of dancing developed in the…
The Simpsons has recently become the longest running scripted show in primetime American television history, as of April 2018 the show had aired 636 episodes since its debut in December 1989. The show has been ever…
In 2016, Lilly Wachowski, following her sister, Lana, came out as transgender in a statement to Wind City Times: she asserted that the “hard reality” of this exposure was the confrontation of a world that is “openly…
In January of 2013 it made news around the world that prominent US internet freedom activist and programmer Aaron Swartz had committed suicide. At the time of his death- and reportedly responsible for it- 14 federal…
According to the recent UN report, published a month ago, ‘rapid and unprecedented action’ is required to stop global temperatures rising 1.5°C. So why, a month on from this harrowing report, has an advert about the…
He Named Me Malala (Davis Guggenheim, 2015) follows the touching story of Malala Yousafzai as she became one of the main figures speaking out for women’s rights to education in Pakistan and her call to action for…