Essays

I know it hasn’t been too long since I posted the last Dorkaholics Monthly Topic, but consider this me getting back on track and ahead of my editorial calendar. A …

I had planned for the content theme of last month and this month to be about relationships and leadership respectively. Unfortunately, the chaotic nature of the last two months, due …

Ruin of The Dreaming: Waking Hours by G. Willow Wilson and Nick Robles Legacy series are tricky things. You want to honor the stories that came before, stories in which readers have …

I like to think I have a pretty good memory. I remember conversations with my mom at the ages of two and three that she has confirmed actually happened. But …

As Dorkaholics enters its 6th year, I would like to announce a shift in what we cover and how we intend to do it. If you’ve been reading over the …

I loved the original Star Wars trilogy. I wasn’t a fan or a nerd for the particulars of the universe. I didn’t even know those were options. I loved it …

“What are you?” As is often the case for Asian people and other people of color, I’ve been asked this a lot. So hearing Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), a white …

From a viewer’s perspective, the first season of Watchmen is riveting. From a critical and social perspective, it’s frustrating. Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, detailed in a Washington …

Since its debut, BoJack Horseman has wowed us with its singular vision and oddball animated universe, where upright-walking animals share their lives with humans and Olympic-level wordplay shares priority with …

An essay by Robyn Hang for GWST-1501: Introduction to Gender & Women’s Studies at York University focusing on the film Moonlight as an example of representation in the media with intersectionality …