Category: Essays, Criticism, and Analyses
Wholeness Through Defectiveness: Reversing Homeworld’s -isms in Steven Universe
Steven Universe continues to prove itself an effective series that relays important messages and provides…
On Advent and the Secularization of Christmas
It’s that time of year when Christianity makes headlines by decrying the lack of Jesus…
Holy Barbie Dolls, Batman!
When sacred beliefs meet pop culture, someone’s bound to get offended, especially when the particular…
Cutie Marks and Calling Redux: Finding Purpose in Loving the Enemy
About four years ago, I wrote my first analytical blog series about My Little Pony:…
Loving Anthy and Loving the Other
In my last post about Revolutionary Girl Utena, I compared Utena to Jesus Christ on…
Someday, Together: Revolutionary Girl Utena’s Already/Not Yet
I don’t know what it is with me and all these eschatological/shifting eras themes I…
Kill la Eschaton: Partings and New Eras in Kill la Kill
This might be my last Kill la Kill post for a while, but who knows?…
The Garnet #BlackLivesMatter Mural and the Power of Fictional Characters
During the Baltimore uprising, I made this post with some brief reactions I had at…
Finding God Imprisoning: Religious Identity and Exclusion in Orange is the New Black
Regular readers know by now that any time I see Christian iconography mixed with pop…
Madonnas of Ooo: Adventure Time Meets Christian Iconography
Given that I’ve cosplayed Marceline twice now, it’s surprising that I haven’t written much about…