Year: 2020
![Contributor Limelight: Alex Blackburn](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/374-Contributor-Limelight-Alex-Blackburn-FINAL-e1581020704774-1024x758.jpg)
Contributor Limelight: Alex Blackburn
Alex Blackburn is a senior staff writer and our go-to guy for anything in the realm of math rock or instrumental-leaning rock music. … read more
![Parallel Lines: Comforting Discomfort](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fiona-antcostume-1024x687.jpg)
Parallel Lines: Comforting Discomfort
Comforting Discomfort allows us space to reconsider the boundaries of self-care, the importance of empathy and the value of the familiar. … read more
![Profound Pronouns: Jess Couser’s Pro Bono LGBTQ+ Legal Representation](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-SLUG-WEB-Jessica-Couser-BARKIPLE-72-0274-1024x683.jpg)
Profound Pronouns: Jess Couser’s Pro Bono LGBTQ+ Legal Representation
Jess Couser offers her legal services to LGBTQ+ individuals as they endure the tedious process of changing their identiy. … read more
![Film Review: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/birds-of-prey-1024x592.jpg)
Film Review: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of...
As it stands, Birds of Prey is neither DC’s best or worst film—it’s just another disposable effort that fails to live up to its promises. … read more
![Inclusion Experience Project: Why Utah leaders need to value vulnerabilty](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-SLUG-WEB-IXP-BARKIPLE-72-0466-1024x683.jpg)
Inclusion Experience Project: Why Utah leaders need to value vulnerabilty
As Utah continues to boom, Inclusion Experience Project will carry on responding to the need for comprehensive, compassionate training in the community. … read more
![The Present is Female: The 2020 Womxn’s March](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200118111728_3E5A7194-01.jpg)
The Present is Female: The 2020 Womxn’s March
This 2020 Womxn’s March saw people all over the country raising their voices against ongoing injustices against women, and Salt Lake was no different. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: Bastards’ Road](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/BR-Rogovy-Poster-Image.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Bastards’ Road
Bastards’ Road is a film portraying a sense of hope in veterans creating their own network, breaking down the stigma of struggling with PTSD and reaching out to one another. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: Murmur](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/murmur_0HERO.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Murmur
Writer-director Heather Young approaches the themes of love, loneliness and dependence from a different angle in her award-winning feature debut, Murmur. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: The Killing of Two Lovers](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/49102992832_0cc567be51_c-1.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: The Killing of Two Lovers
Really, all of the actors of The Killing of Two Lovers do a great job. The writing, however, keeps its semblances of story low to the ground and linear. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Ironbark AKA The Courier](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ironbark-1024x576.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Ironbark AKA The Courier
The audience shifted nervously in their seats as mushroom clouds blossomed and Cold War events unfolded in Dominic Cooke’s Ironbark. … read more