By Taylor Thornburg Lynne Ramsey’s You Were Never Really Here follows the character Joe, as portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, navigating a disjointed labyrinth of cause, consequence, and metaphor for trauma. Literally, Joe earns his living retrieving victims of human trafficking. He violently destroys the traffickers as time and opportunity permits. After the film briefly introduces the main character and his craft, an assignment from a … Continue reading Review: You Were Never Really Here (2017)

by Anna Swanson. In the heteronormative society we live in, the reality is that queer and LGBT+ folks have few spaces to call their own. Queer spaces are necessary facilitators of authentic gender and sexuality expression, meeting other queer or LGBT+ folks, and generally strengthening queer communities. For example, Flixx and The Max are two popular gay bars in Omaha. Recurring events such as Queer … Continue reading Bi-Erasure Should Be Combatted in Queer Spaces

By Phil Gillen Argentinian soccer legend César Luis Menotti, a prominent character as a manager in Latin American football from the 70s to the 90s and beyond, was a participant, even winner, in one of the sport’s greatest competitions, the World Cup. Menotti was also an avowed socialist and stuck out like a sore thumb as a left-wing public intellectual and national team manager during … Continue reading The World Cup, for the Anti-Imperialist

By Phil Gillen Life, for those of us in working-class neighborhoods near the city center, begins to resemble fiction. Not the elegantly paced dramas that win awards, or the sugar-coated daydream romances we can’t resist on Netflix, but the schlockiest, most absurd horror movies at the bottom of the bargain barrel in the grocery store. These lurid tales of zombie apocalypse, of infestation and disease, … Continue reading When Yuppies Attack

Being bisexual can be frustrating. Continue reading Bi-Erasure in Queer Spaces