Earlier this month, Warner Bros announced that a sequel to 2008’s I Am Legend is in the making. Perhaps it should be no surprise that after the last couple years we’ve had dealing with a pandemic and off-and-on again shut-downs the studio sees the value in revisiting a story of…

It was springtime in 2018, a little more than a year into Donald Trump’s presidency. With the rising rates of hate crimes and the vitriolic rhetoric being thrown to the masses from the White House, many were on edge. We were becoming increasingly aware of just how fragile democracy was…

In the summer of 2015, a then 20 year old Dylann Roof opened fire inside a Charleston, South Carolina church, killing a total of nine Black Americans. This atrocious act left many in the country shaken up, especially Black Americans. However, it did not take long for media outlets to…

In 2013, I watched Zack Snyder’s film that launched the beginning of the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel. Admittedly, my initial reaction to it was neutral. I didn’t find anything particularly wrong with it, but it wasn’t my favorite superhero movie. My feelings towards the film would change years…

In 2008, the first Black president of the United States of America was elected. In that same year, same-sex marriage was legalized in California only to be overturned by Proposition 8. Gun sales following election day went up. For all the talk about progress, it was clear there was a…

It’s time for fandom (particularly, white fandom) to learn what “character-coding” is and how they’ve been misusing it. Character-coding is often used by speculative writers and filmmakers to assign traits associated with a certain group of people to non-human characters without explicitly labeling said characters as members of that group. …