The Joker: Folie à Deux – A Reflection on Marginalization

Okay, okay, okay—enough is enough. The slander against Joker: Folie à Deux has to stop. As a diehard DC fan, I understand the disappointment. We all wanted the perfect, bloody, violent Joker origin story. After watching Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal in 2019, I thought, “Here it is—the setup for a deep dive into one of theContinue reading “The Joker: Folie à Deux – A Reflection on Marginalization”

Smacked-Piphany: Teenage Sorrow

 Inahle. Puff. Exhale. How weird it feels to be the ‘unstable’ one for once.  Breaking the boundaries of our composed masculine nature, we scream. We scream with the rage we’ve grown to be comforted by. But, involuntarily, we also cry. We cry even though logic tells me not to. In spite of every other pieceContinue reading “Smacked-Piphany: Teenage Sorrow”

“Brown Girls” As Explained Through My Top 10 Quotes

Daphne Palasi Andreades’s debut novel, “Brown Girls” is unlike anything I’ve personally read before. Through the omniscient perspective of ‘Brown Girls’ in the East Coast, Andreades narrates the collective experiences of minority women as they transition from childhood to adolescence, and then adulthood. Thanks to the unconventional structure of the novel, “Brown Girls” is ableContinue reading ““Brown Girls” As Explained Through My Top 10 Quotes”

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started