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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
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…
Contemporaries Essays, My So-Called Life at 30
My So-Called Teen Dramas
I came into adolescence in the age of the supernatural teen drama. Spanning across novels, television, and film from the mid-aughts through the 2010s, the likes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight,…
Contemporaries Essays, My So-Called Life at 30
Why Jordan Doesn’t Have “Dyslexia”: Refusing the Romance of Literacy in My-So Called Life
In Episode 7 of My So-Called Life, “Why Jordan Can’t Read,” the show’s central character Angela Chase learns that her crush Jordan Catalano has a learning disability and tries to…
Contemporaries Essays, My So-Called Life at 30
A Lover’s Discord: Angela’s Overanalyzing
“But what above love?” asks Rita Felski in The Limits of Critique, as part of her attempt to reconsider the role that “passionate attachments” play in academic criticism.1 Such reconsideration…