flytrap fridays Isn't Life Scary Enough? Hollywood's horror boom is great for the horror girlies, but what about other genres?
feminism Tis the Cozy Games Season When the leaves start changing, I wrap myself in the warm embrace of a cozy game
flytrap fridays Death Becomes Her The lesbian ultraviolence of "Camp Miasma" pulls at the threads of queer desire.
FlytrapxBitch Who Owns Afropunk? Once a DIY passion project, Afropunk has strayed from its Black roots. Can the festival escape colonization?
pop culture I Saw My Own Search for Sunlight in “Heated Rivalry” 'Heated Rivalry' dares to ask: Why should queer athletes be forced to choose between their identity and their sport?
Paid-members only music The People Yearn For Breakup Gossip Lilly Allen's "West End Girl" is full of raw honesty—but why do listeners crave this frankness?
childhood What Black Homes Remember From plastic-covered couches to Black Jesus portraits, Black interior design preserves history amid rampant displacement.
Paid-members only film Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.
colonialism Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.
television If Fat Bodies Are ‘Problems,’ Then We Need New Equations ‘The Biggest Loser’ was the worst vision of a fat future. Fat liberationists are done losing that fight.
pop culture Hate-Reading Wirecutter in the Nascent Era of AI Slop I love the feeling of being recommended to, rather than recommended at. So-called “AI” is making that harder than ever.
pop culture Upending the Male (Film) Gaze The Flytrap spoke to the community organizers diversifying film culture away from the whims of film bros.
pop culture If We Valued Sex Workers, the Outcome of the Diddy Trial Would Have Been Different What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?
pop culture Does It Really Matter if ASMR Is a Sex Thing? The debate over whether ASMR is a fetish opens a can of worms about human sexuality — and workplace safety.
pop culture Dad Rock Is Our Daddy Now Queer and trans people may seem like unlikely fans of the genre. But its essential earnestness may explain its appeal.
pop culture 'Sinners' Celebrates the Decadent Intimacy of the Black South Ryan Coogler's latest film threads Black intimacies through time and space, all in one spiritually stirring night at Club Juke.
pop culture The Case for Magical Boys If anime can subvert and complicate femininity in magical girl shows, it can do the same for masculinity with magical boys.
pop culture You’ve heard of Pink Money, but have you heard of Brazil Money? Will the global north ever love Brazilian culture as much as it loves our money?
pop culture Virginity is Fake, So Why is it Still a Rite of Passage? Despite its reputation as a sexist film, I rewatched “American Pie” and some parts still hold up for me, more than 25 years later.
pop culture “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text Bad Bunny’s new album places loss at the center of tropical paradise, elucidating vacation spots as colonial constructs.
pop culture The Substance Asks the Question: Can Hollywood Escape Its Own Beauty Standards? The latest feminist film about society’s obsession with youth never answers its own question.
pop culture Young, Fat, and Gifted Two new streaming comedies show viewers are eager for stories about fat Black women that don’t just rewrite old, damaging scripts about our lives.
