Contemporaries

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to converse with one another more directly and informally than in traditional academic publications. These curated conversations, or “clusters,” range from sets of relatively autonomous short essays on a common theme to extended epistolary exchanges.

My So-Called Life at 30

Introduction

Danielle Fuentes Morgan

Liberation on the Dance Floor: Rickie Vasquez and the Affective Politics of Brownness in My So-Called Life 

Nicholas E. Miller

Jordan Catalano, the Female Gaze, and the Importance of Being Beautiful in My So-Called Life 

Steven T. Gravatt

Why Jordan Doesn’t Have “Dyslexia”: Refusing the Romance of Literacy in My-So Called Life 

Elisha Cohn

My So-Called Teen Dramas 

Olivia Stowell

A Lover’s Discord: Angela’s Overanalyzing 

Corey McEleney

The Voice of Winnie Holzman  

Elana Levine

Surreal butterflies and alternative kinship futures: revisiting dreams and histories of home through My So-Called Life 

Mythri Jegathesan

Past clusters