For MTC, our contributing writer Charline Jao writes about Shih-Ching Tsou’s new film LEFT-HANDED GIRL and the melodrama of late capitalism. Illustrations by MTC Contributing Illustrator Carolyn Jao

Sold for Parts: ‘Left-Handed Girl’ and Taiwan’s Markets

These are the choices given to a young girl: you can aspire to normality by “correcting” the evil thing within you, embrace evil and do bad things, or live with the constant assertion that you are …

mid-theory.com

My article on commutes and film is one of my favorite things I wrote last year and I'm so grateful to the Mid Theory team (esp @bakaari.bsky.social) for creating this space and for including me in this incredibly cool cohort.

Mid Theory Collective@mid-theory.bsky.social · last yr.

We are so delighted to introduce our first cohort of contributing writers—critics and thinkers who exemplify the spirit of what we want MTC to be. We are grateful for their work and thrilled to have them on board as we continue to grow and evolve!

Omid and I have been thinking a lot about weird professional trajectories, auteurism, late/early style, the studio system, and genre. So we're proposing a special issue! Send @omidb.bsky.social and me your abstracts: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...