Love, Regret, and Art: Pandemic Lessons from Station Eleven and The Real World
The three themes of lessons learned from HBO Max's Station Eleven are the same as the pandemic: love, regret, and art.

The story of Hakima, who becomes pregnant after being raped by the imam Abdu-Nabi. When, years later, the 'holy man' turns his gaze to his biological daughter Oinasa, Hakima attempts to protect her.
The three themes of lessons learned from HBO Max's Station Eleven are the same as the pandemic: love, regret, and art.
A few episodes in, I realized the most prominent theme of In The Long Run wasn't culture, race or even finding independence--but the idea of belonging.
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
Like all modern societal phenomenons, it started with a meme. This one highlighted that when there’s a mom in a Pixar film, she is almost without fail given striking curves that highlight the bottom half of her body following a minuscule waist. From Elastigirl to the skeletal Mama Imelda, the animation giant’s artists seem to have a fixation on making exaggeratedly curvy maternal characters.
Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.
An excellent exploration of taking a joke too far.