Renee Alcantara

Essayist

United States

(she/her/hers)

Graduate of Ateneo de Manila University - BFA Creative Writing program, concentration in Creative Nonfiction. I like to think too hard about pop culture.

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Critical Essay

05/01/2022

Hedgehog dilemma: on writing, trauma, and queer loneliness

Critical essay on Centipede Season, my undergraduate thesis.

Collision Literary Magazine

12/31/2022

Centipede Season

A version of this essay will appear in Collision Literary Magazine's 2022 Issue.

Unpublished

Something We've Always Wanted: On Tumblr's life, death and afterlife

Unpublished

Stupid Horse: Hyperpop, hyperirony, and the COVID-Nineteens

Unpublished

Renee Alcantara

Essayist

Hedgehog dilemma: on writing, trauma, and queer loneliness

Centipede Season

Something We've Always Wanted: On Tumblr's life, death and afterlife

Stupid Horse: Hyperpop, hyperirony, and the COVID-Nineteens

Why RuPaul's Drag Race Werks