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Love in the Time of Reality Television
One of love’s most outstanding qualities is its timelessness. We can observe the triumphing powers of love throughout the entirety…
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How Not to Talk About the Climate Crisis (or, a Review of “Don’t Look Up”)
McKay’s latest satire doesn’t just hold a mirror up to society. Rather, it asks a bunch of famous white people…
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The Spectacle of “Selling Sunset”
The “Selling Sunset” realm is composed of a class which gets to claim immunity to the economic implications of COVID…
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The De-Politicization of “Maid”
This outsourcing of “the second shift” is not as benign or innocuous a process as “Maid” would have you believe.
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2020: The Year of LGBTQ+ Representation in Cartoons
If you’ve found yourself either wanting a light-hearted dose of LGBTQ+ rep mixed in with that sweet, sweet, nostalgia of…
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What It’s Like to Watch “Happiest Season” as a Queer, Black Woman
For all the praise “Happiest Season” has earned for queer representation, however, the film is also a frustrating reminder that…
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The Misogyny of ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’: On Superficial Social Commentary and Women as Fantasies Not People
The film and its characters are self-aware about the misogyny in the “manic pixie dream girl” trope due to the…
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‘Sex Education’ and Its Display of Transformative Anger
“Sex Education” does a brilliant job at conveying female rage in one individual scene in one individual episode, “The Girls…
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‘I Am Not Okay With This’: Netflix’s New Telekinetic White Girl
If I described a white girl with telekinetic abilities in a dress covered in blood you would think I was…
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‘The Witcher’: Powerful Disabled Characters? Apparently Just a Fantasy
And yet—despite being an imaginary world where anything can happen—a powerful, complex disabled character is unimaginable.
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