The Stage Manager’s Invisible Ledger
There's a moment in every workplace, maybe you've felt it, when gratitude curdles into something else entirely. Someone thanks you…
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True Cost of Belonging
The opening scene of Andrew Ahn's The Wedding Banquet shows Min as he searches his wallet to count money with…
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The Economics of Skin: Who Gets to Be Comfortable?
There's a moment early in Sauna where Johan, our golden retriever of a protagonist, is cleaning semen off the tiles…
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The Currency of Longing
The opening scene of Queer shows Daniel Craig's William Lee character who experiences hand tremors while he tries to open…
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Economics of Becoming
A person on the Luas train system from last week described to their companion their decision to purchase a standing…
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Sweat Equity and Pain
The opening scene of Love Lies Bleeding shows Lou using a microwave to heat up a dinner which she will…
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Cost of Wanting What Hurts You
Jules enters a corner shop while wearing his full drag costume after completing his stage performance in the beginning of…
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The Economy of a Girl’s Body in Malia
A podcast guest once declared that holiday resorts operate as capitalist businesses which use board shorts as their disguise and…
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Knitwear Gives It Away: On Passages and the Economics of Wanting Too Much
The first scene of Passages shows the Parisian apartment which Tomas and Martin share but my mind kept returning to…
