Protected: Over*Flow: “Birth is Violent”: Television’s Response to Post-Roe Reproductive Politics
Reut Odinak / Boston University
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Protected: Over*Flow: “Birth is Violent”: Television’s Response to Post-Roe Reproductive Politics
Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University
Herold and Morse reassess the “bad object” status of the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros and discuss its deconstruction of cis gay masculinity.
Read moreOver*Flow: “Blonde is a Kind of Person”: A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
Kelly coyne / Northwestern University
Kelly Coyne dissects the racial and gender politics that underlie the “dumb blonde” stereotype.
Read moreOver*Flow: Fan Demographics on Archive of Our Own
Lauren Rouse & Mel Stanfill / University of Central Florida
Lauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill present the results of a survey of users of popular fan fiction hosting site Archive of Our Own (AO3), providing updated statistics on fan fiction readers and writers.
Read moreOver*Flow: Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto
Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
Read moreOver*Flow: “I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
Wendy Peters / Nipissing University
Wendy Peters argues that the contemporary and decentralized context of music production, distribution, and social media promotion diversified and transformed pop music by enabling Lil Nas X—a Black and openly gay star—to rise.
Read moreOver*Flow: “One Train!”: Race, Gender and Class in Snowpiercer
Riziki Millanzi / University of Sussex
Riziki Millanzi assesses the Snowpiercer television series depiction of intersectional politics, arguing the show ignores the nuances and varied experiences of marginalized peoples to oppression.
Read moreOver*Flow: “It’s not dark humor if it’s not your trauma – you’re just bad people”: The exploitative nature of TikTok meme cultures
Moa Eriksson Krutrök / UmeA University, Sweden
Moa Eriksson Krutrök explores the ways social media like TikTok can offer individuals social support to process grief and trauma. Unfortunately, meme culture can radically recontextualize the personal and exploit already vulnerable people.
Read moreThe Costs of Hope in The Chair and The Bold Type
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University
Kelly Coyne addresses “cruel optimism” in The Chair and The Bold Type, critiquing how American capitalism motivates its workers with the mantra that advancement, and the power that comes with it, leads to satisfaction.
Read moreOver*Flow: Whitelash in the Heartland: 1977 Speaks to Today through the Voice of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Vincent L. Stephens / Boston University
Vincent L. Stephens discusses the timely reboot of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman in relation to the recent resurgence of white supremacist organizing in the United States symbolized by the January 6, 2021 insurrection.
Read moreOver*Flow: Queen of the Neighborhood: Monse Finnie Mobilizes and Defies the Ingenue Trope in Netflix’s On My Block
Stephanie Melissa Perez / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Melissa Perez explores how On My Block’s Monse experiences her own objectification and challenges stereotypes of ingenues and Black and Latinx girls.
Read moreOver*Flow: “The Sun is Shining on AMC”: Meme Stocks & (Temporary?) Media Industry Reorganization
Peter Arne Johnson / Boston University
Peter Arne Johnson examines the broader industrial and sociopolitical reverberations of the recent market shortening of Game Stock stock by a community of retail investors from the subreddit r/wallstreetbets.
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