You Look Healthy: The Veiled and Wounding Culture of Body Shame in Urban South Asia

How cultural ideals of thin, fair, and lovely are wounding South Asian women.

Director’s Cut: Full Design

This week, the Nass talks about movies, bodies, and movies about dog bodies.

When Your B1tch Becomes Human: A Review of My Dog Tulip

“If Ackerley perceives his dependent, female dog as essentially human, this is a strong statement regarding Ackerley’s beliefs about women in general. In fact, many of his statements regarding Tulip, throughout the film, feel steeped in misogyny, given that they are not statements generally associated with dogs.”

11 Fall Break Movie Reviews

Yooo, fall break was a movie…

The Head

“The ears had a pinkish color—a real lively color, like if The Head had stepped out in the cold of the previous night and come back in the morning. Simon marveled at the thought that El Chato had really killed this man with a saw.”

Occupation of a Life

He put his hands in the pocket of his brown leather jacket, looking for a piece of paper. All he found was a small receipt he had got from the stationary store in exchange for a red pen, and he wrote: A sailor on land Climbed to the mountaintop and all he saw was the […]

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