summertime, La Belle Saison Review: The Radiant Memory of Liberation and the Weight of Choice
At some point in life, every human being confronts an intense desire to break through the rigid walls confinement has built around them and step out into an entirely different world. This is…
Colette (2018): A Name Bloomed Through Gaslighting, Declaring the Sovereignty of Desire
What is it like to live a life vicariously satisfying the desires of another, hidden behind their name? If the act of creation is an asceticism that carves away at the soul, how…
Jennifer’s Body: An Interpretation of Toxic Friendship Swallowed by Deficiency and Subversive Revenge
The desire to possess another person entirely is often accompanied by a destructive hunger. To erase the “self” defined through the eyes of others, we sometimes encounter moments where we must either become…
The Shameless: The Destructive Liberation of Two Women Who Rejected Systemic Shame
The heaviest chain a human carries from birth is “shame.” For those pushed outside the boundaries of morality defined by society, the world constantly compels them to be ashamed. But if that shame…
