Tracey Mollet Abstract: Following David Harbour’s anti-Trump speech at the SAG Awards 2017, Stranger Things positions itself as a text that derides neo-conservatism and embraces difference. However, this inclusive veneer is problematized by the 1980s texts it nostalgizes, particularly their concern with white hegemonic masculinity and their marginalization of women and people of colour. Such values … Continue reading Demogorgons, Death Stars and Difference: Masculinity and Geek Culture in Stranger Things