Note: The following content may be triggering and be considered sensitive content to some readers. This is a trigger warning to let you know that if you are uncomfortable surrounding topics of eating disorders, you may not want to read these poems. Hungry   I don’t want to eat Because I want my stomach to […]

By Ben Jett Food comes in many varieties, much like people do. Also like people, food has power. Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade (2016) speaks to humanity and life through music while also utilizing the power of poetry through Warsan Shire’s verse. Aside from the album name, not much of the music and media utilizes food […]

By Emily Turner Hello, y’all! Today I have a special, top secret family recipe for you to make for your kinfolk. Are you excited for a finger-lickin’, fall-off-the-bone, buttery fried chicken recipe that will put your little ankle-biters into a food coma? I sure am! I’m salivating over my gosh darned keyboard as I type. […]

by Hannah Partridge, Ball State University M. R. Carey’s 2014 novel The Girl With All the Gifts presents a new twist to the genre of post-apocalyptic zombie novels by making the protagonist of the story a zombie herself. Melanie, who believes she is an ordinary young girl and knows no other life than living in […]

by Taylor Baugh, Ball State University Movies have the power to truly move a person – and children’s movies are no different. Movies like Wall-E, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Chicken Little, and Ice Age all have a similar message. These movies depict an apocalypse-level event for the characters, but the characters are given […]

by Savana Newton, Ball State University It’s down to survival of the fittest in AMC’s The Walking Dead (TWD), where only those with the loosest morals can make it out alive. The characters in the show adhere to virtually no moral rules, either in the ways they torture/kill the walkers (zombies) and or they brutally […]

by Taylor Baugh, Ball State University There are many forms of entertainment today that depict apocalyptic plotlines while also incorporating supernatural forces. Within our entertainment, we want to enjoy imagining the apocalypse; however, we don’t want to face the realistic nature of those apocalypses. So, we include the supernatural rather than real world problems we […]

by Audrey Bowers, Ball State University Bunkerville is a satirical, post-apocalyptic musical created by Mark Sonnenblick and Brendan Ternus. The musical was performed on Ball State’s campus in the Fall of 2017, running from October 20th – 28th. Bunkerville is about a journalist named Steve who reports the latest news of the underground bunker in […]

by Bailey Shrewsbury, Ball State University The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a T.V. show that explores how an apocalyptic event can work as a motivator in one’s life. Kimmy Schmidt, the protagonist, was 14 when she was stuck in an underground bunker with three other women by The Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. The Reverend […]

by Abigail Gelopulos, Ball State University Realistic, strong, female characters that still maintain their femininity have been rare gems in almost every medium, but they are now slowly becoming more prevalent.  This type of female character is generally hard to find, especially in the post-apocalypse genre because, unfortunately, creators in this genre often revert to […]