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  Imagining Possibilities at the 2026 Men's World Cup

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  August 17, 2026

  Imagining Possibilities at the 2026 Men's World Cup #soccer #fandom #fanfiction #sports ... their enjoyment from imagining possibilities and witnessing the unpredictable. Indeed, one of the most ... anything can happen. During the 2026 World Cup, this spirit of possibility extended to the relationships ...
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  Soulful Cinema, an Instrument… A Weapon… and Probably a Hat

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  Corey Coach PhD

  March 27, 2026

  room acquire the title, but not others that offer a better sense of familiarity and togetherness?  I’m ... openness to all relations that would be possible within a Black world.[4] Such aliveness fundamentally ... possible by the affordances and limitations of the instrument used to depict it. Yet “more than ...
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  Responses Between Authors

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  Charlotte Howell Boston University

  Kathryn Hartzell Denison University

  August 20, 2026

  #fanfiction #masculinity Curator's Note Responses to Ethan Tussey’s “Imagining Possibilities at the 2026 ... fan circles (and online influencers) but I’m all for incorporating it into the scholarly discourse as ... discussion of the possibilities and productive reimagining of masculinity these romantic edits produce. ...
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  Be the Femme Fatale: Noir Props in Mitski’s “Washing Machine Heart” Music Video

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  Thomas Goodchild Georgia State University

  April 06, 2026

  props. At the beginning of the video, she stands to the side of a stuffed bird, her hand hovers over it ...
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  Telemundo vs Fox: Established vs. Event Soccer Fans Appeal

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  Charlotte Howell Boston University

  August 18, 2026

  stadium-side broadcasts that borrowed from College Gameday, the bombastic gravity of Zlatan Ibrahimović and ...
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  Studying to See

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  Daren Fowler PhD

  March 23, 2026

  event,  Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side, Stefano Harney poses the difficult and at times ... the side. His choice to not be centered in the record—in the literal image of the tapes—pushes Lou to ... thread of Ailey? How do you shape a film  through  him without being afforded the possibility of relying ...
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  Where Stories Rest: Encountering Community and Memory

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  Jennifer Blanks Texas A&M University

  February 18, 2026

  proximity—siblings side by side, parents anchoring generations. Headstones themselves act as identifiers, their ...
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  The (Black)Maternal Function and Opticality

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  Lizette London Emory University

  March 25, 2026

  and thus lens the (im)materiality of Blackness—whether in cinematic form or that which is created ...
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  You Can’t Unfuck a Myth-Poetic: (failed?) Antagonism in Battle in Heaven

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  Christopher Minz Georgia State University

  February 10, 2026

  celebratory, for Marcos, empty—masturbatory, one-sided joy sans object, a cognitive map with no route marked. ...
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  Uncertainty is the Point

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  Anna Winter MFA

  March 26, 2026

  opens up the possibility of making something that feels alive, something that couldn’t have been ...

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