On the Scene – Mid Theory Collective
Posts about On the Scene written by Maz Do and Olivia Stowell| Mid Theory Collective
Posts about On the Scene written by Maz Do and Olivia Stowell| Mid Theory Collective
2 posts published by Mid Theory Collective and Maz Do during August 2025| Mid Theory Collective
For Mixtape #6, we asked some friends, writers, and readers: What do you like about romance media? What are your favorite romance texts and tropes? Which texts brought you to the genre or represent its possibilities for you; what tropes do you return to again and again? Steve Ammidown, co-host of the Black Romance Has […]| Mid Theory Collective
On the Scene is a recurring reportage on a practice-focused cultural or artistic event taking place now or coming up soon. Framed by an awning of technicolor bougainvillea that blooms in defia…| Mid Theory Collective
How do we face a generic crisis, a sense—a dread—that a subject exceeds the bounds of the genre that seeks to contain it? In retrospect, the generic crisis of the film It Ends With Us (2024) was easy to predict. Like its source text, Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel of the same name, the film has […]| Mid Theory Collective
What happens if we are never bored? Boredom is a thoroughly modern feeling; or rather, one etymologically contiguous with modernity. The noun did not enter the language until the middle of the nine…| Mid Theory Collective
We can’t seem to get ahead, and we can’t get off either. Romantasy, a mash-up of romance and fantasy, is one of the hottest subgenres in romance today. If you have just woken from a years lon…| Mid Theory Collective
If Stress Positions is taking the pulse, mood, and outlook of LGBTQ social worlds today, its prognosis is rather bleak. Stress Positions, the 2024 dramedy co-written, directed by, and starring Thed…| Mid Theory Collective
Queer and All of Us Strangers had primed me for disconsolation, but at the last moment, they reneged in favor of a gorgeously hollow, tepidly consolatory cohesion. A gay man is in bed with a ghost. It’s the ghost of his former lover—a man who is not really there, but instead a phantasm conjured up […]| Mid Theory Collective
The shift from the outward-facing politics of severance to the intrapersonal desires of the severed is the political problem of season two in a nutshell. In a climactic, chaotic moment from the sea…| Mid Theory Collective
The missing playlists, disappearing music videos, and albums that are visible but unlistenable may be understood as a gesture of restoration not only in a time of digital permanence but also in a c…| Mid Theory Collective
It is the love that is troubling: the love of violence (which fans prefer to call “physicality”), the love of an institution that invariably, though to variable degrees, maims its participants in plain sight and inflicts untold invisible damage on them in addition. “In the Nation, there is law; in the Colony, there is only […]| Mid Theory Collective
