An Ongoing Lack of Spontaneous Combustion

Poetry has comfortably slipped into its current position as the most honest medium of writing. It allows the poet to play with images, scenarios, and characters that may not necessarily be personal, but, at the same time, inject their words with a truth serum of sorts. There is a certain naked honesty to the mediumContinueContinue reading “An Ongoing Lack of Spontaneous Combustion”

Enter the Raccoon

I would never have known about the existence of Enter the Raccoon if it wasn’t for Beatriz Hausner herself, who came in as a plenary speaker for the Vic One program. Surrealism is clearly not the most popular genre, and the science-oriented students could be seen smirking quietly. But it was undeniable that, once sheContinueContinue reading “Enter the Raccoon”

A Step in the Right Direction: A Review of Disney’s “Moana”

We are slowly entering the age of the reinvention of Disney. Disney has boasted about including diversity in their films for a few years now, but still, Moana came as something unexpected to me. I suppose I didn’t actually expect anything from the big talk of how Disney was trying to push boundaries, and finally strive forContinueContinue reading “A Step in the Right Direction: A Review of Disney’s “Moana””