Mar 14, 2022
Understanding Madness and Mental Health Through Lucha Libre
Luchas Libres remind me of the advice I got on my first roller coaster ride: “You have to scream the whole time. It’s only fun if you scream.”
Luchas Libres remind me of the advice I got on my first roller coaster ride: “You have to scream the whole time. It’s only fun if you scream.”
The simplicity and certainty of the game was precisely what I needed. Who was I to refuse the guarantee of a certain reality?
When your youth is marked so clearly, by a crisp sailor collar and the deep pleats of your skirt, everyone feels like they deserve a piece of it, of you.
For my generation of fans, Naito embodies our time and our struggles. The closest thing he has to a superpower is survival.
Guy Fieri allowed me to ask: who do I fear noise and brightness for? Who do I fear food for? And he gave me the answer: I fear it for myself.
Wrestling never stops, so I couldn’t stop, and thus I am still here.
The violence of the moment, conveyed in shades of melancholy purple, is bleak even for a cartoon. But it’s also honest.
“Manson’s magical proximity to massacres of gun violence is, we know, not magical. His practice is prismatic, his lyrics a sieve.”
As an autistic child, I scrambled to figure out when my passions became too overbearing, too ‘me’ for other people.
“Being a funny girl like Fanny continues to skew the way I see myself.”
Remembering the online world of gay chat rooms in the digital moment before social media.
There’s a latent sense of hope tinged with rage tucked away in the album.
What makes one rebellion just and the next unjust?
It’s not about getting away with things. It’s about becoming more comfortable with myself.
Johnston’s instrumental arrangements and shrill vocal style satisfied a primitive urge in me.
“Horror isn’t in the gothic and ghostly, but in the people we’re taught to love. Horror is close to home.”
How rewatching ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ shed new light on a lost year of my life.
On ‘The Big Sick,’ dating, arranged marriage, and the hard-to-break scripts we use when communicating about love.
Magic deserves to be regarded as a high art, right alongside poetry, right alongside theatre.
