Rebecca Wanzo

Rebecca Wanzo is professor and chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her books include The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Political Storytelling (SUNY Press, 2009) and The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (NYU Press, 2020).


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Fixing Nostalgia: “Star Trek” Boldly Goes to Less Utopian Futures

“Picard” is perhaps the least utopian of any “Star Trek” media. But’s that because its political pragmatism shows how to build a better reality.