Cdub D.C. Club

Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining has been reviewed time and time again, for multiple reasons including meanings, symbolism, and conspiracies. Though there are multiple themes throughout the movie, there seems to be one that is lacked, or not specifically touched on. Lack of sex, abuse, and molestation. It is very obvious from the getgo that Jack and Wendy are not very communicative or in love. To say that a director like Kubrick, who had many  films that had to do with sex, or a lack of, and the dangers it would cause did not think to make it an underlying theme, is ridiculous, and is just lacking sensitivity to his creativity. Though it is easily overlooked since there are other themes that are considered much more prevalent, the theme of sex is huge when I look at this movie, and I believe the thoughts about it should be shared, as it gives a different insight to the movie or what Kubrick could have been trying to pursue. If you go back and try to find interviews where he ...

Some of the most amazing airports exist within California, however, El Semental is based  on none of them and exists  wholly within my               own imagination I was ten years old, attending an elementary school that looked like it had not been renovated since nineteen-seventy-four. The paint for hopscotch on the blacktop was faded, the numbers painted in pastel, tetherball ropes long from white, and the tree in the middle of the yard so big it could tell stories from one hundred years ago. It was November fourth and a couple days ago I had been dressed as a ballerina witch, as I had been in ballet for eight years already, but couldn't wear that attire to school as my mother was scared I'd fall and rip my tights or scuff up the soft leather of my ballet shoes. I had been drinking the strawberry milk that I would always get. I don't know why, but the recess had been longer that day. Long enough to be reading Breaking Dawn ...

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month. The topic of it hits home and is not an easy thing for anyone to talk about, I think. It has been a year since the #MeToo movement has gone viral and a little over a year since I realized I was in an abusive relationship and left. I would also like to acknowledge that, if any of you feel you're in a toxic relationship, you should leave. It is extremely hard, and I understand, but it will never get better. Ever. Though I feel it is a safer place on the internet now, I disabled comments, and will likely never choose to open them. If anyone reading this feels a bitter or sour way about what I have to say, I suggest you just leave the blog as I finally have the strength to tell this story. I am not asking for you to believe me, I am only doing this to symbolize that my abuser no longer has the mental hold over me as he used to. I also want everyone reading this to know I consider myself a survivor, not a victim. Going into fresh...