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This article focuses on the underlying transformation produced by social ecological crisis– a transformation in the time scales for human agency. First, we trace how authors who conjunct readings o...

A recurring narrative in popular culture is imminent global catastrophe. Contextualizing the cultural phenomenon of disaster porn, I discuss the Anthropocene and explore Gregory Bateson’s ecosystem...

Wonder Woman 1984, by Director: Patty Jenkins. Writers: Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns, and Dave Callahan. Production companies: DC Comics, Warner Bros., DC Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment, The Ston...

I percolate on germane themes and concepts before I write a film analysis, so when I was asked to review this film, I Googled “women,” “medical illness,” and “cinema.” Ninety-five percent of the hi...

Armed conflicts disrupt families worldwide. This study examines the adaptation process of Greek Cypriot refugee families who suffered the traumas of displacement and death of family members in 1974...

I went to see Wonder Woman in a quaint, small town cinema built in 1912, 30 years before Wonder Woman first appeared in her own comic book. The theater’s long history is analogous to Wonder Woman’s...

Breaking the fourth wall in her inimitable style, the titular character of Amazon and BBC 3’s comedy series Fleabag cheerfully announces in the second season premiere, “This is a love story.” How v...

Focused on a relatively brief period in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career, “On the Basis of Sex” is a standard-issue biopic that conveys what she achieved in the fight for gender equality, and why it ma...

In the genre of comic book movies, origin stories are a vehicle to introduce audiences to key players in a cinematic universe, and quickly explain motive, crucial character traits and quirks, and t...

In emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT), the completion of a blamer-softening event has been related to deeper emotional experiencing and relationship repair. However, the characteristics of those who are able to complete this event are unknown. The authors examined emotion regulation at intake in relation to key change processes in EFT. Results indicated that emotional control and emotional self-awareness, two emotion regulation strategies, at intake did not predict in-session emotional experiencing or the completion of a blamer-softening event. Results also indicated that gender was a significant predictor of emotional experiencing in the best session. Results attest to the efficacy and generalizability of EFT.

This paper discusses how interracial couples both resist and comply with the prevailing ideology and racial logic of homogamy through their use of dominant and subordinate discourses around (1) hypersensitivity of the partner of color and (2) history's insignificance. Qualitative interviews with interracial couples reveal their strategic responses to racism in the public context and to racial and ethnic differences in the relationship context. The narratives highlight marginalized “truths” crucial to effective clinical work with interracial couples. Implications for intervention with interracial and intercultural couples are discussed.

Poetics, as an epistemological approach, articulates alternative imaginaries to those proffered by the neoliberal world order. With a long history of drawing upon various sites to further its aims (e.g. the academy, the international studies association, political parties, the state), the neoliberal world order has used its epistemologies to constitute a hegemony emphasizing the state as the primary actor of political life. Feminists and scholars in postcolonial IR, black studies, and ethnic studies have challenged this idea, arguing that there are differential epistemological economies in world politics. Larger questions at stake in these different sites/cites include self and collective knowledge of marginal peoples and the envisioning of alternative, oppositional histories of decolonization, struggle and contestation. Traditional disciplinary boundaries become sites/cites of contestation about the forging and making of alternatives as academics, grassroots organizers, and activists, through po...

This study explores how black-white interracial couples experience and respond to racism and how they negotiate racial and ethnic difference in their relationships. Twelve black-white couples were ...

This study explores how interracial couples experience their life together and negotiate race and gender in their relationships. Ten black-white couples were interviewed individually and conjointly...

Summary As the field of family therapy continues to gain exposure both in the U.S. and abroad, family therapists and their supervisors are increasingly likely to come from diverse cultural backgrounds. This study examines how differences in culture of origin influence supervisory relationships. Twelve individual interviews were conducted with six supervisors and six supervisees who had worked with one or more supervisees or supervisors whose culture of origin differed from their own. The descriptive data was analyzed using the method of constant comparison. Results reflect cross-cultural supervisees' acclimation to a Western/U.S. training context, specific challenges associated with cross-cultural supervision, and ways in which supervisors can sensitively and effectively supervise culturally different supervisees. Implications for education and training in family therapy are presented.

Afraid of Dark is a documentary that begins with the audio recording of a 911 call. A terrified woman provides voiceover for a scene unfolding before her, and another person can be heard crying out...