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Whale Rider
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Stone Butch Blues
Carries a strong pull into anime through power and folklore.
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Notes of a Crocodile
Carries a strong pull into anime through longing and folklore.
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In Colour
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Only for a Short While
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Illness as Metaphor
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Fleabag
2010s
A woman addresses the camera while her life unravels. Grief, desire, and the fourth wall.
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Moby-Dick
1850s
Call me Ishmael. A captain's obsessive hunt for a white whale. America's greatest novel.
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In Colour
2010s
In Colour is the debut studio album by English producer Jamie xx, released on 29 May 2015 by Young Turks. The album was composed during a five-year period while a member of the indie pop band the xx, starting with his production on xx in 2009. After starting his solo career with the remix album We're New Here (2011)...
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Blue Spring Ride
2010s
While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
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Essays 1970s
Illness as Metaphor
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal l...
Television 2020s
Reservation Dogs
Reservation Dogs is an American comedy drama television series created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi for FX Productions. It follows the lives of Indigenous teenagers living in rural Oklahoma, as they navigate adolescence while balancing their heritage with their desire to escape the confines of life on the rese...
Books 1990s
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America. While fictional, the work also takes inspiration from Feinberg's own life, and she describes it as her "call to action."
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Music 2000s
Only for a Short While
Anime 1990s
Whisper of the Heart
Tsubaki hails from an all-female clan of ninjas hidden deep in the forest. While a strict code guides the many kunoichi in training, the most important rule the young women must adhere to is: never interact with men, for they are far too dangerous to be trusted. As the leader of Team Dog, Tsubaki has many duties she...
Film 2000s
Tokyo Sonata
A Tokyo family slips into economic and emotional collapse while still trying to perform ordinary life.