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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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‘The Circle’ Season 1 Review
Although "The Circle" fails to wholly reflect what I think some historians or sociologists ought to record about social media’s…
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‘Someone Great’: Applauding Female Friendship and Queer Relationships
In almost all of the romantic comedies I’ve watched since childhood, the female protagonist’s friendships always took a backseat to…
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Hey Netflix, Cancelling Good Shows Won’t Make Us Love You
Netflix canceled “One Day at a Time” after three seasons, and that’s a problem.
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Dear ‘The Umbrella Academy’: It’s Still Incest
Writers, stop romanticizing incest. Stop normalizing all these harmful tropes and influencing your audience to simply accept them as they…
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