Carmilla (2019): A Gothic Reading of Forbidden Desire and Female Narrative
In an era of repression, desires cast into the margins are inevitably forced to wear the mask of a “monster.” The awakening of identity—blooming beneath the smooth surface of a life woven with…
Snapshots (2018) Review: Love Shaken by 50-Year-Old Secret Photos and the Solidarity of Three Women
Sometimes, the most passionate season of a person’s life becomes a solid secret, submerged beneath the surface. Desire that bloomed outside the bounds of normative society bated its breath within the shadows and…
Elena Undone (2010): When the Repressed Self Faces Truth, the Aesthetics of Salvation Wrought by Flaws in a Relationship
We often experience the deepest isolation precisely when we believe our lives are stable. Within the rigid fences of standardized morality and religious conviction, for those who live suppressing their true desires and…
Bitch Slap (2009) — An Exploitation Grammar Deconstructing Female Desire and Narrative Destruction
Every relationship begins with a transaction designed to fill individual voids. The blind desire to fully possess another person can ultimately become the sharpest weapon, destroying both oneself and the other. Set in…
I Can’t Think Straight: The Absolute Attraction and Identity Formation of Two Women Transcending Cultural Oppression
We sometimes feel safest on the trajectories that others have set for us. However, the moment we meet someone who shakes us to our very core, that safety soon becomes a vast prison.…
