The “Femme Fatale” was a well-established archetype in Pre-Code Hollywood films, portraying the female protagonist as a vamp—alluring in her looks, but lethal in…
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The “Femme Fatale” was a well-established archetype in Pre-Code Hollywood films, portraying the female protagonist as a vamp—alluring in her looks, but lethal in…
Continue reading Red-Headed Woman: The Femme Fatale as Heroine of Modernity
I was held For nine months, Nestled by cells, flesh And blood. Her body was A fierce vessel of life, Sustaining my beating Heart. I…
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The human fan operates atop its bulky red deck. “To the right you’ll see The New School” says a man that I…
Dear Amanda, I need your help because I’m stuck in a situation that doesn’t seem to work out for me no matter what I do.…
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One: It was Friday in Paris and the sky was turning grey. Mark popped his favorite Port wine and poured us two glasses. His apartment…
As far as I can understand it myself, racial collectives are the result of a deeply rooted racism in our country that helps to liberate…
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Leslie Jamison explores the complexity behind human empathy in the first chapter of her new novel “The Empathy Exams”, of what it means to be…
It seems as though the simple cure-all solution to having a bad date is to “date other people”, as it had been suggested to me…