Dystopia Now!

Fascism Has Already Come To America

For generations of black Americans, the United States between the end of Reconstruction and the civil rights movement was a dystopian state
03/30/2017

Death By Paradise

No dystopia is built without a utopia in mind
03/30/2017

Mother Peril

How America endangered and profited from black motherhood
03/30/2017

Cat Eyes For A Catastrophe

Darcie Wilder has some beauty tips for an impending dystopic hellscape
03/29/2017

Janelle Monáe’s Android Rebellion

The oppression she fights in her musical science fiction is grounded in reality
03/29/2017

The Red Pill Theory

We can choose to read The Matrix, and the red pill/blue pill choice within, as either the Wachowski sisters’ queer utopia or a fascist guidebook
03/29/2017

The Thin Red Line Between 'The Handmaid’s Tale' And Reality

At our marches, red is the color of female solidarity; in fiction, it’s the color of female servitude
03/28/2017

Apocalypse, Now: Bad ’80s Flicks That Predicted These End-Of-Days Times

Here’s what dystopian hell awaits us, according to these ’80s movies and straight-to-video gems
03/28/2017

During The Apocalypse, Is A Nancy Meyers Kitchen Still White?

As our reality inches toward a real-life ‘Blade Runner,’ we present you with several typically cheery directors and the nightmare films they could (and should) be making
03/28/2017

How Pop-Culture Dystopias Can Help Us Understand Our Current Moment

Welcome to Dystopia Week
03/27/2017

The Great Dictators

A list of six movies with six fictional oppressors — most of whom we’d take over Trump any day
03/27/2017