Hi everyone! This is Ashal, one of the teaching assistants for the course. I'm super excited to use this blog to start sharing and learning new things related to the course throughout the rest of the semester! I think this course covers a lot of topics I generally like to discuss with my friends and that it generally expand my own analysis of media and intersectionality, so I'm hoping that this blog will bring more of those discussions to life. My favourite song is between the bars by Elliott Smith so if you like any songs similar to that please feel free to share the names with me!! Also my favourite TV show has got to be Avatar the last airbender, I have shamelessly binged it at least a dozen times over the past 15 years so if there are any fellow atla fans here let me know! (I'll definitely be putting up blogs about this in the future hehe). Anyway, here's to seeing hopefully an endless amount of thoughtful posts, healthy debates, and dank memes for the next few months.