Beenash Jafri is an assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies at UC Davis. Her first book, Settler Attachments and (De)Colonial Asian Diasporic Film, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Her writing appears in venues such as GLO, Settler Colonial Studies, and Reappropriate.
Beenash Jafri
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Our Matrix of Desire
Celine Song’s “Past Lives” challenges the typical message of primal connection offered by most romance films, instead suggesting that they can never be separated from the real and material conditions of our existence.
