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Crying Spells

₊✩‧₊ Crying Spells is a media and cultural theory project that looks at how identity and desire get constructed and reflected back ₊✩‧₊

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Imagining the End of Loneliness: Horror & the Collective Body

Is community worth the price?

The most erotic thing a man can do is wait

Subverting the gendered expectation of utter devotion

Give Girls Their Subjectivity Back! Now!

Half His Age & Giving Girls Agency in Age Gap Narratives

The Homoeroticism of Female Rivalry

A video essay!

Watching Pretty Boys (Play With Each Other)

On the erotics of male competition

Hidden in Plain Sight

Female Vulnerability as Performance and Plot Device in Contemporary Horror

The Summer I Was Desired

On the Enduring Success of the Two-Brothers Trope in Post-Feminist Media

Who's Afraid of Merging with Their Significant Other?

An essay on the body horror revival, the movie TOGETHER, and loss of individuality as this decade’s greatest horror

You Don't Own Me

Simulacra, Pin-Up Culture and Ownership in the Sabrina-verse

To Live and Die in the Shadows

Violence and Sacrifice in the Mission Impossible Franchise