Elisa Broche

My mother always says, “When you marry someone, you marry their family, so pick who you’re dating well.” It is something she has repeated for years, part warning, part wisdom. When I was little, I did not fully understand it, but it stayed with me. I remembered it again in second grade when my math teacher, a Christian man, stopped class after one of my classmates said he had a girlfriend. He told us that dating was meant to prepare you for marriage, and that if you were dating someone...

I never thought of myself as a good writer. I grew up in an artistic family, so people assumed I was naturally creative, naturally talented and naturally capable of anything in that world. My house was full of love, but it was also full of expectations. Expectations that always, somehow, pointed to me. My mother reached the highest academic and professional positions. The message was clear. I was supposed to honor the efforts of everyone before me by going even further. And because everyone...

SPOILERS AHEAD If you’ve been in anime spaces for longer than five minutes, you’ve probably heard about JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure —the meme-fueled, genre-defying and beautifully unhinged series that has been running since 1987. Hirohiko Araki’s magnum opus has influenced everything from modern shonen  to high fashion, proving that posing dramatically while discussing bloodlines is, in fact, peak storytelling. As a filmmaker and storyteller, JoJo’s  has impacted the way I think about character...