The Wizard of Oz

Even in 1939, when The Wizard of Oz first pictured Kansas in sepia, it might’ve been the color of nostalgia—the color of old photographs, a certain shade of dirt.

Though we continue to revere stories like The Wizard of Oz as folklore, 2018 demands that we revisit the canon—our cultural body of work—while reckoning with the entertainment industry’s brutal legacy of abuse.

I haven’t made it over the rainbow—I don’t know that I ever can—but there it glistens in the periphery, beckoning.