Welcome to Snark Center
A blog about movies, queerness, politics, and the argument that actually that’s everything that exists in any meaningful sense. Maybe. Idk.
This June, I’m kicking things off with a series of movie reviews for historical queer cinema, inspired by my dear friend Jay who’s doing the same thing over on Substack. No promises on how many I’ll watch, or if the things I think are particularly thoughtful, but I’m sure going to say them!
What to Expect This June
- Angels in America (the 2003 miniseries adaptation) - Jay and I started watching this actual years ago, and then never got around to finishing it. It’s time.
- D.E.B.S. - best movie of all time, after all! (Well, with the possible exception of The Princess Bride, but The Princess Bride is also straight and therefore doesn’t get to exist this month)
- More? Idk. Hopefully more!
About the Author
I’m literally just a little faerie. Why do I need an about me?
…no, okay, I like talking about myself too much. Call me Mitra. I’ve loved movies for a really long time, and I exist as an oppressed person within a cisalloheteronormative patriarchy that I thrive within all the same. Just imagine the power I’ll embody after la revolucion!
That’s not to say that I do not myself embody quite a few axes of privilege, of course. I am a beneficiary of colonialism, living within the imperial core on lands rightfully belonging to the Shawnee, East Cherokee, and Uchee peoples. I am white-skinned, (presently) able-bodied, and housed, among many more privileges. It is my duty and my joy to apply such privilege as I have been granted to the uplifting of all people.
In terms of perspective, I tend to take a left-communist view of things; my ideal model of a path to a better future grows out of the unification of people in workplaces, dwelling-areas, and other organic communities to create networks and structures of power parallel to conventional capitalist structures of domination, and the gradual supplantation of those structures with a society based on care and support for each person among us. (Also, bodies of flesh are all well and good, but they’re remarkably limiting. I plan to live long enough to be digitized, and then you’re never going to get rid of me. :3 )
I recognize that I have gaps in both my perspective and my knowledge. Please, always feel free to contact me to share things I may not have known or thought of! I ask that when appropriate, you do so from a position of gentleness, but it is more important to me that I have the chance to iterate towards a truly universal love and respect than that I never be challenged by words that may hurt.
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Let’s make this month — and every month — a celebration of stories that matter.
Contact
Email me, mitra@snark.center. Alternately, see the contact page for other ways to get in contact!
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