yMf: waking up to my (male) privilege
I wrote another piece for the blog Young Mormon Feminists (which you can follow on Twitter @youngLDSfems). Read the beginning of the post here: It’s going to take me a while to get to the point of this post, but stay with me. It’s not a parable. It’s just a play-by-play reenactment of a troubling and somewhat invigorating [...]
Read MoreyMf: (mormon) feminist filmgoer: ‘blue like jazz’
Here’s another one of my Feminist Filmgoer pieces over the blog Young Mormon Feminists (which you can follow on Twitter @youngLDSfems). Read the beginning of the post here: Today’s “Feminist Filmgoer” is less about feminism and more about the other two descriptive titles we go by: young and Mormon. Except, okay, Mormon is not really accurate either. The [...]
Monsters University – My Early Review (Absolutely Zero Plot Spoilers)
Several years ago, during the late Michael Eisner period, the Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation Studios were going through such a catastrophic rough patch in their relationship that a divorce seemed inevitable. At the peak of that tension, Eisner promised (threatened?) to start cranking out sequel after sequel to beloved Pixar films like Finding [...]
Want to Help Me Get to NYC?
These days I have been searching for ways to fund my upcoming summer internship with Radiolab in New York City. I thought some of you, my friends, might want to toss a few bucks my way to help me fight the necessary evils that all interns have to deal with: that is, living and eating. So, I made a button. [...]
Read MoreElder Holland’s Conference Talk is the Most Significant Sermon on Doubt and Faith in Recent History
I can be prone to exaggeration, but after being blown away by Jeffrey R. Holland’s talk last weekend, its dust has been settling on my mind throughout the week, I listened to it again, and my initial reaction has ossified into a genuine feeling that something significant happened last week at that pulpit. Bridges were [...]
Read MoreA week of opportunities
I was inside Pixar this week when I got a call from WNYC’s Radiolab that they want me to be an intern with them this summer. Sometimes now when I have trouble going to sleep I think about that sentence and try to count all the fulfillments of life-long dreams that are contained in it. [...]
Read MoreMy Short Speech on Marriage
Today I participated in a well-attended rally for marriage equality in Provo. There was a great spirit and energy throughout the event — we sang songs, listened to short speeches and poetry recitations, prayed together, and held a candlelight vigil. I gave one of the speeches, and I’ve made it available for you to listen [...]
Read MoreWe’re Gonna Be Doin’ One Thing and One Thing Only… Killin’ Nazis
I am setting out to write a final paper on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. I am trembling with nervous excitement as I embark on this analytical adventure — I can’t wait to dive into the abyss, piecing together some meaning or other in the violence the film portrays. But I’m terrified. I’m terrified that I’m going [...]
Read MoreyMf: feminist filmgoer: vertigo (1958)
I have started a new column at the blog Young Mormon Feminists (which you can follow on Twitter @youngLDSfems). Here’s the beginning of my latest post: In Vertigo, a film regarded by the British Film Institute as the Greatest Film of All Time, director Alfred Hitchcock lays out a love story in which the lovers are frustratingly never on [...]
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Revisiting a Galaxy Far, Far Away
So everybody, I have a confession to make: I love Star Wars. Not just The Empire Strikes Back, not just the original trilogy. And of the prequels, not just The Revenge of the Sith. I LOVE ALL SIX FILMS. When I say that out loud, or write that out typed, it actually feels less confessional. Or it seems like [...]