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Our Lives Are Liminal: Queer Love in ‘We Are Who We Are’
By Josh Sorensen | “Queer teenagers are inherently liminal beings and must find their own way of measuring development, find their own way of growing up.”
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The Fearless Call To Youthful Love and Desire In Mexican Cinema By a Young Gael García Bernal
By Aaron Sánchez-Guerra | “We learn that love is superficial among the materialist elite, it is toxic and painful when pursued in secret and that a mania for sexual conquest can result in abuse, loss or separation.”
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Satanic Cannibal Witches: How The ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ creates its own brand of Satanism
By Elliott Ryan | “Witches in media are experiencing a renaissance. They kill, resurrect, eat flesh. And most importantly, they determine their own narratives.”
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“The Calls Are Coming From The House!”: A ‘Black Christmas Retrospective’
By Jamie Tram | “Black Christmas (1974) carved out its own niche by grounding the subgenre in the lives of young women beset by emerging adulthood.”
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The School of ‘Rocky Horror’
By Alexander Gonzalez | “The Halloween episode in season two of the Netflix teen drama ‘Elite’ depicts adolescent angst in the spirit of Rocky Horror.”
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Plug It Up: Menstruation As A Teen Horror Movie Monster
By Eliza Janssen | “Menstrual Horror in film seems to take adolescence and coming of age more seriously than the genre’s tendency to portray teens as disposable.”
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Editors’ Letter: The Horror Years
By Claire White and Odalis Garcia Gorra | “There is nothing more terrifying than being a teenager or young adult. And if scary movies have taught us anything is that the things that go bump in the night, love to horrify us to death (Final Girls, excluded).”
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One Day At A Time and Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love Get Quinces Right
By Odalis Garcia Gorra | “As seen through these two shows, for both Elena and Ashley, a quinces means welcoming an era they were preparing all their life for.”
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Growing Up with “Scream”: A Closer Look at High School Musical 3’s Most Dramatic Song
By Katherine Clowater | “‘Scream’ is loud, dramatic, and even downright Shakespearean in its portrayal of doubt, anxiety, and the growing responsibilities of adulthood — but that’s how it feels to be a teenager.”
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Me and Jo March: Locating Queerness at Orchard House
By Anna Burnham | “When I began asserting to others that Jo March was deeply, obviously queer, I was trying to tell the people around me — I was trying to tell myself — that I was, too.”
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