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…
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…
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…
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…