Culture
In the Muck: With “In the Dream House,” Carmen Machado Archives Queer Women’s Pain
“Our culture does not have an investment in helping queer folks understand what their experiences mean.”
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The "Steven Universe" Movie Reminds Us That Change is the Only Path to Growth
There are few cartoons—few series as a whole—as impactful as Steven Universe.
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Scared Silly: Jenny Slate’s “Stage Fright” Gives New Meaning to the Phrase “Standing up to Fear”
Stage Fright is a distillation of how we live with and confront fear, and the lifelong process—and joy—of overcoming it.
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“All This Could Be Yours” Complicates the Narrative of Shitty Men and Forgiveness
By focusing on the women who Victor has harmed, Jami Attenberg offers a fleeting world where even messy, sometimes-bad women deserve justice on their own terms.
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Father Knows Nothing: Purity Culture Stunts the Sexual Growth of Black Girls
The concept of virginity derives from white-evangelical, patriarchal notions that have been used to control and regulate the bodies of women.
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The Devil Wears Cornrows: Could Appropriation Lead to the End of Fashion?
A true reckoning of fashion’s debt might mean the end of houses, the end of fashion week, the end of “high” and “low,” the end of trend forecasts written by anyone who isn’t a 15-year-old brown girl from Chicago’s West Side.
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This Woman’s Work: FKA twigs’s “MAGDALENE” Dissects Female Martyrdom
FKA twigs not only treats her album’s namesake as a source of spiritual strength, but considers how often women are stripped of their agency and their voice—even when they’re the heroine of their own stories.
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On “90 Day Fiancé,” Love Is a Form of Capital
90 Day Fiancé exposes the attitudes and practices that have foreground America’s history of anti-immigrant sentiment, nativism, racism, and xenophobia.
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What the Styling of Good Janet on “The Good Place” Shows about Sexist Character Design
With Good Janet versus Bad Janet, The Good Place uses fashion to signify goodness.
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Beyond Coming Out: 6 Lesbian Novels That Bring the Romance, and Sex
We deserve books that actively center our pleasure, too.
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