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8 Dec

Joy Sunday Has Us Under Her Spell – Essence

Joy Sunday Has Us Under Her Spell – Essence
Wednesday, Netflix’s live-action tackle how the Addams’ family’s only daughter would fare in the fashionable world, is an authorized hit. (As if it ever could’ve been some other way.) The actors are experiencing explosive bursts of interest of their careers, and the show is already one among streaming platform’s hottest series ever. The earliest plotline is easy: Wednesday Addams is erm..having a difficult time suffering bullies. So she’s sent to Nevermore Academy, Morticia’s alma mater and a college for the gifted. Addams meets a number of literal characters, including her clairvoyant ancestor Goody Addams, her bubbly, fanged roommate, Enid, and her sometimes opponent, sometimes savior Bianca Barclay, a siren who’s disconcerted by Wednesday’s arrival. After all, there are more faces...
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8 Oct

The Sunday Essay: Leaving Alabama

The Sunday Essay: Leaving Alabama
When your upbringing is a wealthy brew of Catholicism, Baptism, and evangelical summer camps, all played out against the patriarchal backdrop of Alabama, your intense attraction to other teen girls is best buried deep.  The Sunday Essay is made possible because of the support of Creative Recent Zealand. Illustrations by Sarah Larnach When I used to be 12, at an all girls’ Christian summer camp in North Carolina, I got my first gay crush. She had silky black hair and almond eyes and a smile that split me open. The primary time I saw her, we were within the dining hall. There was something concerning the way she took up the entire pitch-sized hall – her skin electric, outweighing the scale and sound...
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