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...LA’s African-American and Latino transgender community, Sin Dee Reel (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor). The reception has so far been overwhelmingly positive. [A still from the movie Tangerine] A still from Tangerine Tangerine follows in the wake of an upsurge in transgender programming in recent years, the quantity of which has resulted in some...

...De Quincey’s notorious nineteenth century book, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, is also considered the first autobiographical account of drug addiction. It influenced not just generations of narcoticized writers but even medical opinion on the effects of opium for decades after its publication. In the Georgian era of 1821, opium – in the form of laudanum - was...

...class conflict remain groundbreaking and noteworthy even today. Deconstructing Dirty Dancing attempts to unpack the film and reveal the reasons for its longevity. Stephen Lee Naish sets out to prove that Dirty Dancing, ostensibly about the romance between Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a middle-class Jewish teenager, and Johnny Castle, a working-class Irish-American dancer...