Personal Essays & Reflections

Below are essays that are currently in progress, and will be linked here for reading upon their completion. Be sure to check back for upates!

Essay Index

• Constellation of Friends: Female Friendship as Gravity - The Senshi don’t orbit Usagi — Usagi and her identities orbit them, held together by loyalty stronger than destiny.
• Genre, Feminism, and Ghosts of Girlhood - Sailor Moon is a love letter to girlhood, but also a cautionary tale about the weight of saving the world with a smile.
• Mina’s Epilogue: The Ghost of My Sailor Moon - If Usagi is forever haunted by her past and future selves, then so am I.