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Dionysus (or Bacchus, in the Latin rendering) is the Greek god of wine, drunkenness, fertility,...
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“Latinas Don’t Twerk”: Ivy Queen’s loaded comments on Afrodiasporic music
Recently a group of friends recounted to me a scene at a party involving an...
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Quentin Crisp’s Mystical Desire for the “Great Dark Man”
Quentin Crisp, the British aesthete, came to fame in the 1940s for being one of...
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The Weeknd’s Soulless R&B
Ever since The Weeknd rose to fame in the early 2010’s, commercial R&B music has...
January 22, 2022
Thirst Traps Invert the Male Gaze
“Thirst traps” posted by males on social media invert the male gaze, furthering the neoliberal...
January 05, 2022
Reading into Reggaeton: Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro, Jowell y Randy
“Safaera,” Bad Bunny ft. Jowell y Randy and Nengo Flow The intro to Bad Bunny’s...
January 03, 2022
Gyms: Temples of Neoliberal Atomization
Exercising at a gym is the supreme expression of the atomized neoliberal self. In pre-modern...
December 2021
December 31, 2021
Spotify W(t)rapped: The Identitarianism of Music Streaming
Spotify Wrapped represents the atomization of the consumption of art and its subjection to the...
December 26, 2021
Writing wrap up 2021
5 most fun articles to write this year: 1. Me explaining why before you criticize...
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How to Cracks in Pomo: a Manifesto
So what the hell is cracks in Postmodernity? People keep asking me what this esoteric...
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Confronting Suicide and Mental Health during COVID
Mental health and the alarming rise of suicides among young people--most wouldn’t consider these to...
April 05, 2021
Facing Nihilism with High School Seniors
The school where I teach spent the summer debating whether or not to attempt a...
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March 25, 2021
Celebrating the #Panniversary with James Baldwin
“I used to distract myself,” writes James Baldwin in his 1964 essay Nothing Personal, “some...
March 16, 2021
Ok or not ok, that is (not) the question: CDF & Civil Unions
“The Pope said something about gay.” *cue media firestorm* As the author of Ecclesiastes reminds...
March 07, 2021
Why I won’t recommend Jordan Peterson to my students
As a teacher at (what used to be) an all boys Benedictine high school, I’m...
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Singing with a Childlike Heart: Ozuna’s Odyssey
For reggaeton artist Ozuna, life is an “odyssey.” In a genre that tended to uphold...
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Learning Useless Things: Incarnational Learning in Catholic Schools
A letter to my students at our Benedictine high school Picture this--you’re sitting in the...
January 22, 2021
Healing from Addiction, Family Wounds in Nicky Jam’s El Ganador
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In The Mix: Journeying through R&B, Reggaeton, and Byzantine Chant
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December 18, 2020
Christianity is the Most Ridiculous Religion: On Scorsese’s Silence
Any sane person would walk away from Martin Scorsese's new film Silence with a profound...
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Theology of the Body Playlist: Finding God in Pop Love Songs
When teaching Christopher West's Fill These Hearts (a simplified analysis of the John Paul II's...
November 27, 2020
Beyond CCM: Finding God in Secular Music
"In music. . . what man pays homage to is something else, something he is...
November 23, 2020
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As expected, conservative Christians are up in arms over the first Hallmark Christmas movie featuring...
November 18, 2020
Sex and Sacramentality: Post-Medieval Readings of the Song of Songs
Among the most prominent objections to the strictly allegorical reading of the Song is the...
November 11, 2020
Divine Eroticism: Medieval Readings of the Song of Songs
The intended meaning of the Song of Songs has been a matter of contention since...
November 01, 2020
Amazon, Idolatry, and the Incarnation
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