Gegard Mousasi (c) vs. Austin Vanderford (Middleweight) Leah McCourt vs. Sinead Kavanagh (Featherweight) Ciaran Clarke vs. Abou Tounkara (Featherweight) Khasan Magomedsharipov vs. Jose Sanchez (Featherweight) Brian Moore vs. Jornel Lugo (Bantamweight)
In order to learn why an arguably outdated fanfic trope was resurfacing in the contact zone of popular culture, I dove into a vibrant trough of character development.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
Battles will come and go and queer people do die for their identity and fights for rights, but that doesn’t mean the gays don’t deserve their happy endings in stories.
In the spirit of Halloween, here's a list of body horror films which can be interpreted as trans allegories.
The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.
