Suzanne Collins first thought of the concept behind The Hunger Games as she was sitting at home watching television. As she flipped through channels of reality TV and coverage of the Iraq war, Collins realized that there was an enormous divide between the content audiences were consuming…and it unsettled her.  I, alongside others, was reminded of this feeling once again last Monday night, when news of Israel’s ban of Al-Jazeera—the only media network on the ground documenting the genocide in Palestine—and the invasion of Rafah flooded my timeline. Among pictures of children buried in the rubble were social media threads … Continue reading It’s not “dystopian,” it’s real.