In ballroom, we have these cycles in and out of the mainstream, which happen because of projects that are made about ballroom. In the early 2000s, I was privileged enough to come into the scene under the mentor
First, methodologically, much has relied on qualitative approaches to research the occurrence of homosexuality in marketing. They include mainly ethnographic approaches (Balzer 2005; Hopkins 2004) and case studies of specific cultural settings such as the movies, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of ...
Unlike movies & TV, they found that not only the representation has increased, but the valence for autistic characters in video games is positive with a focus on resiliency. Literature were children. One of the studies revealed that most books tend to centre on repetitive behaviour rather than ...
This is how literally all forms of publishing work: online, music, movies, books, etc. In terms of a money loser, take for instancethis article. I am already rather well known, have a wide following, spent hours writing that article, and ultimately it garnered 1 comment & 0 inbound li...
Even Hollywood has tried to emulate this new “less waste” storytelling model by making its series of superhero movies. But the longest series of feature f ilms so far is the Bond series, weighing in at a current 26 movies since 1962 – about the same as the average season of NYPD ...
My husband, who transitioned to full-time freelance in 2020, now has a wardrobe that is almost entirely t-shirts for bands, comic books and movies. He gets compliments wherever he goes. We weren’t the only ones changing our budgets this way. Also during the pandemic, retailers saw the...
Second is the degree to which work is based on trust and how, to use Portes' wonderfully ironic concept, enforceable that trust is. In the informal economy of domestic help, issues of trust are highly salient, and formal agencies to find trustworthy help fill in the spaces where the ...
It’s not just mainstream politics and mainstream news media, it’s the entirety of mainstream culture: all its movies, books, music, values systems, ideals. It’s all inseparably intertwined with the sick status quo we now find ourselves in and the manufactured worldviews which consent t...
one of the four hosts of"Lovecast, the BL Podcast.""And a lot of it was very sad. You get these very depressing movies, not very many happy endings. Those stories of course, have their place, and a lot of the times, they're true to the queer experience that a lot of people hav...
These spaces seem to be on-going, with no finite end or beginning date or time. Also, while these spaces may begin on the internet, they are not limited to that space, and can move beyond the digital sphere. Accordingly, for this article, the black body is read as a battleground site...