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Issue 10: The Inaugural Prize Issue, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 10: The Inaugural Prize Issue, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 10: The Inaugural Prize Issue, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 10: The Inaugural Prize Issue, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 10: The Inaugural Prize Issue, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 10: The Inaugural Prize Issue, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 10: The Inaugural Prize Issue
Contemporaries Essays, My So-Called Life at 30
Introduction
It was the summer of 2006 and I’d just met a guy and couldn’t stop daydreaming about him. He was good looking with piercing blue eyes and dark hair. He…
Contemporaries Essays, My So-Called Life at 30
Jordan Catalano, the Female Gaze, and the Importance of Being Beautiful in My So-Called Life
In seventh grade I started talking less and leaning more. It was 1994-95, the year of My So-Called Life’s only season, and the girls in my school were enthralled with…
Contemporaries Essays, My So-Called Life at 30
Liberation on the Dance Floor: Rickie Vasquez and the Affective Politics of Brownness in My So-Called Life
The eleventh episode of My So-Called Life (1994-1995) includes a brief but influential scene that I have returned to repeatedly over the years since it first aired: Rickie Vasquez (Wilson…