Community, Interrupted: A New Column

I have lots of opinions. Lots of them. It’s embedded in my gay genes. That is why I love critiquing and analyzing film, TV, media, and all that informs culture. Culture is a shared system of customs, arts, and beliefs of an era of time, a physical geographical...

‘Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control’ by Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis

As journalism and media enter an era of highly scrutinized and policed through an authoritarian lens,  Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis's book Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control show us how morally panicked gatekeepers have been trying to...

LEGEND: Nellie Bly

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864, Nellie Bly was known as an adventurous, bold and rebellious writer who supported her family after her father died. After she read an article by the "Quiet Observer" in the Pittsburgh Dispatch that labeled women who worked...

LEGEND: Nellie Bly

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864, Nellie Bly was known as an adventurous, bold and rebellious writer who supported her family after her father died. After she read an article by the “Quiet Observer” in the Pittsburgh Dispatch that labeled...