“When I was a little girl, around the age of three, I held my hand up to my mother’s and said “I don’t match you.” I then did the same thing to my father and said “I don’t match you either.” This is not going to be a piece about a mixed girl “trapped between two worlds” or anything like that. This is a review of the film Passing. However, this film, along with many other moments and elements of my life, made my head swirl around the concept of race, the complexity of it, and my place in it. In addition, it is an incredibly somber vignette about repression, and light skinned privilege.”

“This summer, the highly anticipated Jordan Peele film Nope premiered in theaters. Months before the movie premiered, fan theories spread all over the internet. Many suspected that the film would be an allegory for COVID and hold themes surrounding a plague as in the trailer, OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) asks his sister, Emerald (Keke Palmer) “What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that?” Some predicted a message along the lines of people are the real monsters and the aliens are coming to save us from ourselves. Others believed the film was simply playing with casadastraphobia, the fear of being sucked into the sky, to thrill and terrorize audiences.”