Parallel Mothers Review: Historical Healing of the Spanish Civil War, Shared Wounds, and Motherhood Between Two Women
Living in an age of loss, we all often discover our own names only by passing through the pain of others. The deficiencies and ruptures that life throws at us without warning sometimes…
Pages of a Girl (2008) Review: Literary Solidarity Across an Era of Oppression and In-Depth Analysis of Female Narrative
There are moments when someone’s entire world is completely shaken in the corner of a bookstore filled with the scent of faded paper, out of reach of others’ eyes. For those who live…
Tomboy (2011) Film Review: A Piercing Coming-of-Age Interpretation of Confronting the Self Beyond the Gaze of Others
The experience of wandering in confusion because one cannot fit into the external molds defined by the world is universal. Director Céline Sciamma’s film Tomboy (2011) does not treat the grand discourse of…
Summerland, The Absolute Zero of Tender Solidarity Found in the Sea of Loss
Human beings often escape to their own solitary islands, carrying their respective losses. There are those who isolate themselves to avoid being hurt by others, locking the doors to their hearts and living…
My Mother Likes Women: The Shattering of a Rigid Illusion Called Family by a Midlife Lesbian Declaration
When the world one believed to be most perfect collapses with a single sentence, we finally face the true countenance of the other. The moment an individual, who existed solely within the role…
Kiss Me Before It Blows Up: An Interpretation of a Romance Between Two Women Transcending Historical Debt
How free can individual love be in the face of the immense debt left behind by historical tragedy? The film Kiss Me Before It Blows Up depicts the playful yet fierce love of…
