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Beautiful Suffering: “Pop Song” Bears Witness to the Power of Different Loves
Maybe it’s human instinct to want to capture our emotions, to bottle and preserve them for others to see.
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“Death, Sex & Money” Offers a Masterclass in Hard Conversations
What is achieved when you try to have these uncomfortable conversations with people in your life?
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Love Is the Message: The Final Season of “Pose” Hands Out Happily Ever Afters
We’ve cried with them and mourned for them, but the third and final season of Pose gives us reasons to smile for them.
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5 Feminist Albums That Got Us Through April
We’re all still searching for comfort and inspiration.
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Daughters of the Resurrection: For Black Women, “Lemonade” Still Feels Like Home
Though the album delves deep into the pain of infidelity, it shouldn’t be separated from its depiction of Black womanhood as a far-reaching community forged from shared experience.
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“Love in Color” Modernizes the Myths We Love to Hate
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.
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A Woman Hasn’t Won a Writing Oscar in 13 Years. That Could Change on Sunday.
A female screenwriter hasn’t won an Oscar since George W. Bush was in office.
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Hold Up: When Music Treats Softness as a Superpower
“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.
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