Lake Smith

A film analysis of the gendered expectations detailed in Cruel Intentions

Over a row of flourishing spinach sprouts Charles Smith stakes a plastic tarp to the ground. It hangs over numerous steel pentagonal rods emerging from the earth and hinges itself close to the plant’s roots.

“You don’t want to be out here in the summer,” Smith said.

As the winter approaches, the hands of Restorative Farms rush to tend to their crops, covering them with tarps to protect them from the upcoming frost. The workers are fast, knowledgeable and grinning team players: The makings of a

“Sheep” has become common vernacular among the members of the alt-right and more conservative parts of this country. Its premise proposes that the general American public blindly follows the government to their own demise. However, the wording is quite ironic considering what America’s foundation is built upon. Those who utilize this language are supposedly in support of rejecting conformity and forging their own path.

This rejection of sorts is one of the main pinnacles to the American identit

As “The Craft: Legacy” made its way to our homes last month, I was reminded of its original story: a group of teen girls finding each other and discovering their magical powers. “The Craft” has gained a cult following over the years, and a big demographic of that has been the LGBTQ+ community. The gays and girls are no stranger to the horror franchise, despite being frequently misrepresented. After all, early works in Hollywood indoctrinated gays into cinema through the use of queer-coding.

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The fetishization of Black bodies is nothing new. The thought of being desirable in itself is something most of us want. We all desire to be loved, attractive and respected. However, fetishization provides none of these things. For all the loving interracial relationships that exist, some carry this limiting culture within them. The fetishization of Black men often has little to do with the individuals but what the individuals represent according to mainstream stereotypes.

It’s no surprise to a

When you think about privilege, you usually don’t think of a Black man. As a minority and disenfranchised part of the community, we’ve all come to realize—hopefully, that is— that due to a gap in privilege Black men don’t experience reality in the same way white men do. However, more often than not do we forget the people who sit at the intersection of two disenfranchised parts of society. Such is the fate of the Black woman, plagued with racism and misogyny.

There is a stereotype that Black me

The elevator!” Emily Campos exclaimed into my eardrum.

I led her through the swarming teenage kids that buzzed like a beehive. Emily jabbed them in their ankles. They furiously turned around to see her, but once their eyes met hers, a stiffening silence would strangle the angry words in the back of their throats. Some would ramble out an apology then speed up to clear the way for her.

We reached the elevator that was usually forbidden to students. She fumbled her hand along the wall to find th