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Anthony Ramos plays Usnavi, a light-skinned Latinx man, dancing with Melissa Barrera as Vanessa, a light-skinned Latinx woman in In the Heights

Color Struck: Hollywood Can’t Scrub Its Colorism Problem

by Lorraine Avila
August 9, 2021 at 5:44pm

In the Heights is anxiously concerned about the white gaze.
Luz, a female cartoon character with short brown hair and brown skin, looks at Willow, a female cartoon character with short blue hair and white skin. In between them stands Entrapta, a female cartoon character with long purple hair and tan skin.

Brain Power: Cartoons Diversify the Face of Neurodivergence

by Michele Kirichanskaya
August 9, 2021 at 11:38am

Recent animated shows, including The Owl House and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power are beautifully doing this work.
Deborah Copaken, author of Ladyparts, is a white woman with long, brown hair

Written On the Body: For Deborah Copaken, Biology Is a Battlefield

by Andi Zeisler
August 6, 2021 at 10:43am

She is using her body as a megaphone.
Naomi Osaka, a Black and Japanese tennis player with curly black hair pulled into a ponytail, looks at her opponent during a tennis match

You Can’t Break Naomi Osaka Down

by Taylor Lhamon
August 5, 2021 at 12:22pm

Athletes are no longer letting their audiences off the hook.
Emilly Prado, a light-skinned Latinx woman with long, brown hair, poses in a black dress and doorknocker earrings against an orange background

Emilly Prado Closes the Coffin on Her Old Life

by Michelle Ruiz Keil
August 5, 2021 at 12:17pm

Everybody’s sense of memory changes over time.
Black and white photo of Lupita, a Tsostil Maya massacre survivor with long dark braids and illustrations of brightly colored flowers around her head like a crown.

This Woman’s Work: “Lupita” Gets Inside the Life of an Indigenous Resistance Leader

by Amanda Gokee
August 4, 2021 at 11:45am

“This is a woman [who] can tell the story of 500 years of repression of Indigenous peoples.”
Chandler Baker, a white woman with long blond hair, smiles at the camera.

Worthy Secrets: Stepford-esque Men Create True Horror in “The Husbands”

by Addissyn House
August 3, 2021 at 12:48pm

Chandler Baker’s second adult novel takes a look at what equality really means.
Illustration of gymnasts starts in black and white with a white, female gymnast standing and as she performs a back flip she changes to show a white woman with red hair and a Brown woman on yellow background.

Leap of Faith: Tokyo’s Olympics Spotlight the Women Changing Gymnastics

by Helen Li
August 3, 2021 at 11:26am

A new generation of gymnasts rethinks the expectations—and rejects the abuses—that previous ones endured.
A white woman with purple hair holds an orange wrapper with bumps on it in front of a microphone to make ASMR sounds.

Tingling Meditation: The Pandemic Gives Medical ASMR New Meaning

by Jess Thomson
August 2, 2021 at 2:58pm

ASMR provides a small way to enjoy the world without the worry of contracting COVID.
a colorful illustration shows Black people laying across a pile of books

BitchReads: 13 Books Feminists Should Read in August

by Evette Dionne
August 2, 2021 at 2:55pm

The books just keep on coming.

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