Culture
Love and Surveillance: Dating Shows Channel More Than Reality
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
There may be other Gamergate novels to come, but for now, A.E. Osworth has set the bar.
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Botch Goddess: How Bridget Jones Redefined Career Failure
The unlikely icon made fallibility as a career asset.
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Quid Pro No: Women Approach Power from a New Direction
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
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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Ramona Taught Me: An Ode to Beverly Cleary’s Beloved Feminist Icon
Legendary children’s author Beverly Cleary died on March 25, but she left us with the eternal gift of Ramona Q.
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“Caul Baby” Meditates on the Birthing of Black Women’s Lives
The caul bearer is often featured as a prominent figure within mystical and spiritual lore around the world.
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We’ve Apologized to Britney Spears. When Is It Jessica Simpson’s Turn?
With so many of her marital fights and throwaway comments captured, Simpson felt much closer to our reality than other stars.
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Let’s Go to the Tape: Filmmaker Amy Ziering on Bias and Belief in HBO’s “Allen v. Farrow”
“The fact that you hear a victim speak out doesn’t make it biased.”
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