Review Archives – Scalawag

We're Queer, 'We're Here,' and We're Fighting Back

by Sezin Koehler March 23, 2023March 22, 2023

The show's account of Florida's neo-Nazis and proto-fascists are sickening—and not in the fabulous drag way.

Everything (Queer) Everywhere All At Once

by mónica teresa ortiz March 10, 2023March 9, 2023

Abolishing the Black Superhero Complex: From Black Panther to MLK

by Bria Massey March 2, 2023March 2, 2023

The romantic comedies convincing you to fall in love with the police

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Grief and Love, Outside the Changes

by Julian Reid February 10, 2023February 15, 2023

Abolition on TV

Abolition on TV: Pop Justice Wrapped

by Eteng Ettah January 19, 2023January 20, 2023

Why your new diet is antiblack

by Ko Bragg and Da'Shaun Harrison January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

There are 'Stranger Things' than abolition, but the show won't go there.

by Endria Isa Richardson December 22, 2022December 22, 2022

In the soil, in the sound: Houston's Jamal Cyrus gets to the root of Southern Black aesthetics

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

How to do away with copaganda: Three Emmy-nominated shows to watch with an abolitionist lens

by Kaitlin Fontana, Rebecca Bodenheimer and Naa Djama Attoh-Okine September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

Only Murders in the Building exemplifies the lies in 'true' crime

by Adedoyin "Ade" Adeniji and Bria Massey September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

Southern Politics

The Dropout dramatizes Elizabeth Holmes' fraudulent rise. Endless military funding is also a scam.

by Bria Massey September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

Yellowjackets shows a world without police as disorderly. Abolitionists aren't buying it.

by Molly Lipson September 13, 2022September 16, 2022

RuPaul's Drag Race visibilizes queerness—and the police state

by Sezin Koehler September 12, 2022September 16, 2022

The White Lotus is supposed to be satire. Hawaiians deserve the last laugh.

by Mariah Rigg September 12, 2022September 16, 2022

Abbott Elementary and the promise of schools without cops

by Eteng Ettah September 12, 2022September 16, 2022

Netflix's 'Spiderhead' forgets that the truth about prisons is stranger than sci-fi

by Siona Peterous September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney

by Tyra A. Seals June 29, 2022November 16, 2022

The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 23, 2022November 30, 2022

Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police

by Bunny McFadden June 22, 2022November 30, 2022

Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022

Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021April 19, 2022

In Review: 'Can these bones live?'

by W.J. Lofton July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021

Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

In the face of anti-trans bills, 'Mama Gloria' is a blessing

by Antonia Randolph April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021