Alex Sayf Cummings's Blog, page 7

Jina in Iran, Erased Kurdish Histories, and the Worlds We Need

The shouts. The demands. The pleas. The cries. They stretched from Tehran to Kurdistan across borders, lands, and waters.

The Courtship of Little Otik’s Father

Guillermo del Toro does the seemingly impossible by making Pinocchio interesting and heartstring-pulling.

The Camera Eye of Dos Passos: Looking Back at an America in Turmoil

Dos Passos's epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos

Youth of Legion Stadium: When El Monte Tried to Ban Rock & Roll

It is Saturday night, and El Monte's atmosphere is buzzing with a youthful glow. As the parking lot and the surrounding streets began to fill with vehicles from the American golden age of automotive design with names like Galaxie and Mercury, the space became saturated with cosmic energy.

Screaming Past Each Other at Christmas: Anthony Lewis, Robert Conquest, and the Unending Debate about Vietnam

The NYT journalist and the British historian shot barbs at each other over US atrocities and the idea of withdrawing from Vietnam.

Carmen Ramirez Presente: A Chicana in Positions of Power

At the close of Teatro Campesino’s 1972 film Los Vendidos/The Sellouts, originally a play written by Luis Valdez, a menagerie […]

El Calor de Otro Sol, or: The Sneetches

From hiring to curriculum and back again, an Anglo settler-colonial regime still permeates higher ed -- despite the long movement for Ethnic Studies and greater inclusivity.

Between Queens: The Renaissance of Sapphic Divahood in ‘Six’

From Boleyn to Bey, history-making women power a new form of queer diva on the contemporary stage.

Book Titles: From the Curious to Moxie

Courage, determination, aggressive energy, initiative. That was the radical style of Chicanas and Chicanos.

El Calor de Otro Sol, or: “Giant” a la SoCal

Thinking through California, Texas, and the United States' many migrations.