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Who is this Alex with the opinions? (BIO)

I am Alex Mell-Taylor. I am a nonbinary culture writer who writes unseriously about important topics and very seriously about unimportant ones. If there's a hill out there, I have died on it. Please return my corpse to the nearest coat check. Greatest Hits The Most Exhausting Part About America Is The Pretending Refuting "American Exceptionalism" so that we can build a better tomorrow!aninjusticemag.com

Alex Has Opinions

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Who is this Alex with the opinions? (BIO)
Who is this Alex with the opinions? (BIO)

Published in Prism & Pen

·1 day ago

We Shouldn't Care If Someone's "Faking" Being Queer For Attention

So what if people are "pretending" to be gay or trans? — There is this odd narrative that gay, bi, and trans people are just being queer for attention. For the past couple of years, there has been a lot of discourse around the concept of "transtrenders" (i.e., people who allegedly aren't "real" trans individuals and are just identifying as such for…

LGBTQ

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We Shouldn't Care If Someone's "Faking" Being Queer For Attention
We Shouldn't Care If Someone's "Faking" Being Queer For Attention

Published in Fanfare

·5 days ago

Exploring Toxic Motherhood In "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"

Magical powers, alternate dimensions, anti-vaxxers, and homophobia — The second Doctor Strange movie, the Multiverse of Madness (MoM), tackles a lot of elements. It serves as not only a vehicle to expand on the multiverse (a real, theoretical concept, if you believe it) where the MCU is now connected to an infinite amount of parallel universes, but an…

Culture

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Exploring Toxic Motherhood In "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"
Exploring Toxic Motherhood In "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"

Published in An Injustice!

·Jul 27

'Teaching A Robot To Love:' The Anti-Capitalist Musical For Our Times

A story about love, queer relationships, & the death of capitalism — By the time a mainstream musical passes the many eyes and hands it takes to write, film, produce, and circulate it, chances are that the moderating influence of "those on top" have taken out a lot of its bite. It's hard (though not impossible) to make a work that criticizes…

LGBTQ

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'Teaching A Robot To Love:' The Anti-Capitalist Musical For Our Times
'Teaching A Robot To Love:' The Anti-Capitalist Musical For Our Times

Published in Fanfare

·Jul 25

The Best Reality TV Shows Are Happening On Dropout TV

College Humor, Nerdy Game Shows, & Comedy Gold. — Comedy has not had the best luck on the Internet over the last few years. The comedy streaming service Seeso shut down in 2017. Cracked fired much of its video staff the following year, causing them to spread to the Internet winds (see Maggie Mae Fish, Cody Johnston, etc.). College…

Comedy

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The Best Reality TV Shows Are Happening On Dropout TV
The Best Reality TV Shows Are Happening On Dropout TV

Published in After The Storm

·Jul 15

Chapter One: Mateo In The Woods

“Did someone die or something?” — Mateo made his way through the unmarked forest. Even after all this time, he still loved exploring the ever-shifting topography of the woods. Life be praised, he loved his job. There was no better thrill as a scout than experiencing a place for the first time, untouched by the many…

Fiction

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Chapter One: Mateo In The Woods
Chapter One: Mateo In The Woods

Published in An Injustice!

·Jul 12

Cancel Culture Isn't About Winning An Argument

Countering the idea that you shouldn't shame others because it's a bad tactic — I have recently done a 180 on "Cancel Culture," or what I call "the politics of shame." I was once an avid supporter of the idea that you shouldn't shame others as a tenant of political organizing (see Unpacking the Deadly Politics of Shame), but recently I have changed my…

Politics

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Cancel Culture Isn't About Winning An Argument
Cancel Culture Isn't About Winning An Argument

Published in Fanfare

·Jul 5

The Problem With ‘Moon Knight’ & Mental Health

Egypt, The MCU, Mental Health, & Dissociative Identity Disorder — Moon Knight is a show about a person (Oscar Isaac) given superpowers by the Egyptian God of the Moon Khonshu. This vigilante's goal is to fight wrongdoers. He is pitted against Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), the servant of Ammit, who wants to judge wrongdoers before they commit their crimes. Along…

Television

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The Problem With ‘Moon Knight’ & Mental Health
The Problem With ‘Moon Knight’ & Mental Health

Published in Fanfare

·Jun 29

Breaking Down Disney’s “Woke” Advertising

Mining the Far Rights Toxic Reaction to Diversity for Profit — Listen, I love Disney. I am up to date on both the MCU and Star Wars. I have also watched every Disney animated movie from Hercules to Turning Red. I have not stopped loving Disney cartoons as an adult, and, now that this company has problematically acquired every popular media…

Television

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Breaking Down Disney’s “Woke” Advertising
Breaking Down Disney’s “Woke” Advertising

Published in An Injustice!

·Jun 17

Historically, Shame Has (Sometimes) Been A Good Thing

Suffragettes, Civil Rights, The Black Panther Party, & ACT UP — In the past, the argument that "shaming people is always wrong" was one I identified with strongly. I wrote an entire piece arguing in length how shame was not a good principle to organize around (see Unpacking the Deadly Politics of Shame). In that piece, I concluded: "…shame seems to…

Politics

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Historically, Shame Has (Sometimes) Been A Good Thing
Historically, Shame Has (Sometimes) Been A Good Thing
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