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Unhappy Medium: The Business of Misery Memes

by Jenna Mahale April 14, 2021 at 1:54pm

The meme has entered a new era as an emotional shorthand.

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Love and Surveillance: Dating Shows Channel More Than Reality

by Imran Siddiquee April 14, 2021 at 9:22am

Netflix released multiple reality TV shows in 2020 that feature beautiful people blissfully succumbing to the power of being watched.

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“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Turns Gamergate into Experimental Fiction

by Samantha Riedel April 13, 2021 at 6:02pm

A.E. Osworth has set the bar.

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Botch Goddess: How Bridget Jones Redefined Career Failure

by Christine Estima April 13, 2021 at 2:19pm

The unlikely icon made fallibility as a career asset.

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Quid Pro No: Women Approach Power from a New Direction

by Joshunda Sanders April 13, 2021 at 9:25am

Recent representations of women on television have reset gender hierarchies centered around cishet male desire.

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Luxury Fashion Won’t End Fatphobia

by Andréa Becker April 8, 2021 at 1:29pm

Plus-size lines are a double-edged sword—simultaneously granting access to those long forgotten in the fashion world while perpetuating the notion of fat as “other.”

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