We have settled into the era of nostalgic retellings of the media moments reaching 20 and 30 year anniversaries. Last year marked 20 years since …
Broadcast TV Nostalgia: Revisiting a Scene-Setting Era of the Teen Drama Genre
Books
Reading Primer: Read Alice Oseman’s Books In Order!
In retrospect I think I read Alice Oseman’s catalogue of work in completely the wrong order. I read Heartstopper volumes 1 & 2 shortly after …
Sharing a Piece of My Heart
I’ve gathered from the internet that this here is a classic millennial parenting joy: sharing a piece of pop culture with your kid. We all …
Required Reading
There are certain books that it’s hard to imagine not having read. Certain books that everyone has read. These are the books that it’s hard …
Loving Life in Yop City
Aya is a beautiful graphic novel about three best friends, their families, and community in Yop City, a working class neighbourhood of Abidjan in the …
Hungering for Heroines
This week, I caught up with the rest of the world and picked up the young adult phenomenon, The Hunger Games. I read the first …
Adaptation: Fantasy Lifestyle From Page to Screen
Teen television is one of my favourite genres. It is a niche of TV storytelling I find fascinating and rich and one I persistently return …