To Security and Beyond!
There’s not a spooky theme here aside from all the pieces of media being horror. However, I hope you have a great Halloween with cool costumes and all the...
Scared Straight - Influencer Edition
Media Round-Up: Anthem (1991) - Basically the musical remix of some of Tongues Untied. Fucking LOVED IT! I feel like the more I look at the work people like...
Panic! at the Met Gala
Media Round-Up: The Hand (2020) - Very much a film which was made one-handed. Beautiful but also weirdly lacking in some of Wong Kar-Wai’s typical stylistic...
Towards A Tickbox-less Criticism
Media Round-Up Something Different [1963] - I am very quickly becoming a Věra Chytilová stan, because she simply refused to be constricted to a single style...
The Water's Toll
Media Round-Up JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Netflix): I think this is a real fun trashy anime. It also kind of showed me that a lot of people's bar for weird is...
What Is A Culture War?
Media Round-Up: The Horror Express (1972) - Very fun and silly horror film about a monster on a train in late Tsarist Russia. Every outfit here is...
#BlackLove is a scam
Heey it’s been a while! I got pulled in a lot of different directions for a bit there but we’re back! Also for mysterious reasons which you will find out...
Invoking the Name
In June, or pretty much any other month which is a designated ‘marginalised person month’ we get a lot of references to history and those who came before....
Bourgeoise Black Aesthetics
This is the germ of an idea that I might develop into a full article later, so feel free to let me know what you think. I was watching In Our Mothers’...
Brackets
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’m perceived, how I present myself and how that limits me. I think there's a degree to which it's useful to be...
Thicker Than Water
Before I kick off in earnest here are a few things I’ve been finding interesting or fun recently: You and the Night [2013], wild, poetic and perplexing. Your...
Intro to the newsletter!
Hey! If you're subscribing to this you probably already know me! But if you don't then hey, I'm Tayo! This is my newsletter (which I have impulsively renamed...