On this episode, host Minkah Makalani sits down with Evan Narcisse and Tao Leigh Goffe to discuss the horror film “Us”.
Evan Narcisse is a journalist and critic who writes about video games, comic books, movies and TV, often focusing on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. He is a senior staff writer at io, having previously written for The Atlantic, Time Magazine, and Kotaku. He’s taught a course on video game journalism at New York University and appeared as an expert guest on CNN and NOR. He’s also the author of the Rise of the Black Panther graphic novel for Marvel Comics. A native New Yorker, he now lives in Austin, TX.
Tao Leigh Goffe is assistant professor in the African Studies Department, and the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is also a writer and a DJ. Born in London and raised in the UK and US, her research examines the unfolding relationship between technology, the senses, memory, and nature. Her writing has been published in Small Axe, Amerasia Journal, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. She is currently completing her first book, A History of Touches: Vernacular Archives of Afro-Asia, which explores the poetics and entanglements of African and Asian diasporas in the Caribbean.