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Love In Color, a book cover, features an illustration of a brown-skinned man and a brown-skinned woman appearing to kiss

“Love in Color” Modernizes the Myths We Love to Hate

by Gloria Oladipo
April 23, 2021 at 12:25pm

Rather than denote these tales as relics of the past, she communicates the value of these myths, stories retold for centuries that reveal all the things that love can be.
Blonde woman smiling in front of a Sundance Film Festival backdrop.

A Woman Hasn’t Won a Writing Oscar in 13 Years. That Could Change on Sunday.

by Alexis Schwartz
April 23, 2021 at 9:45am

A female screenwriter hasn’t won an Oscar since George W. Bush was in office.
cutouts of Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Maps” video and Beyoncé from the “Hold Up” video collaged together with three paintings: Nausicaa (1878) and Flaming June (1895) by Frederic Leighton and “Autumn Sea” (1867) by Gustave Courbet

Hold Up: When Music Treats Softness as a Superpower

by Erica Campbell
April 23, 2021 at 9:13am

“Hold Up” is a nuanced love song in which the female protagonist isn’t begging or asking for love; she’s making a clear and precise declaration.
Gwen Stefani, a white woman with blond hair, poses alongside the Harajuku Girls, a group of four Japanese women dressed in all black

Delicate Goods: The Ornamental Objectification of Asian American Women in Pop Culture

by Sarah Wang
April 22, 2021 at 9:37am

Being Gwen Stefani’s add-ons superseded their place as human beings.
Alice Diamond, Lillian Rose Kendall, and Florrie Holmes, three white women wearing fur hats and pin curls, were members of the Forty Elephants Gang in 1916

Criminal Accessories: The Ruthless Style of London’s Forty Elephants Gang

by Ann Foster
April 22, 2021 at 9:00am

The Forty Elephants remain one of the most successful and longest-lasting criminal organizations in English history.
cropping of a black and white portrait sketch of a Black woman with short hair, her features are more detailed in the center of her face, while the top of her hair, chin, and neck are lightly outlined

Let Us Live: What Does Loving Black Women Really Look Like?

by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
April 21, 2021 at 11:33am

What would it be like to celebrate Black women, not just as a performance or a trend? Without using them as a mascot for a movement. Without relying on them to save this country.
Three women in a pop punk band wearing cat ears posing with instruments.

Cat-Eared Brainwashing: “Josie and the Pussycats” Prophesied the Age of Influencers

by Dejan Jotanovic
April 21, 2021 at 10:41am

It’s a film that tickles the absurdities of the past and, in doing so, has successfully determined the misfortunes of our future.
The Darkling/General Kirigan, a tall white man in a regal jacket, holds a shining light in-between himself and Alina Starkov, a white teen with brown hair, in Shadow and Bone

“Shadow and Bone” Diversifies Its Fantasy World

by Alaina Leary
April 21, 2021 at 9:00am

The characters feel like a chosen family who are just starting to come together.
Colton Underwood, a young white man with short brown hair, smiles during an interview

Coming Out Doesn’t Excuse Colton Underwood’s Abusive Past

by Gabriela Ramos Tavárez
April 20, 2021 at 10:04am

Accepting this narrative is a disservice to queer folk who are or were closeted and have never abused their partners in the process of finding themselves.
Emily Contois, a white woman with brown hair pulled back, smiles slyly outside

“Diners, Dudes, and Diets” Reveals the Absurdity of Gendered Food

by Andréa Becker
April 20, 2021 at 9:00am

By naming and examining dude food, Emily J.H. Contois gives us the language and historical context for an omnipresent phenomenon we’ve all surely noticed.

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