Media
Backtalk: Pepsi Fail & The Harasser Factor
Dahlia and Amy chat about bad Pepsi optics, capitalism, and cola. Pepsi’s latest ad stars Kendall Jenner, the most cheerful group of protestors, and a slew of asinine signs. Profiting off of grassroots and the slew of recent protests is a new low, even for a soda company whose sole job is to... Read more »
Heads Up, Media: Racism is Not a “Controversy”
Why are we seeing some of the most disturbing revelations of racism, xenophobia, and hate speech filed neatly away under the vague header of “controversy”?
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Soft Serve : The Media Normalization of Mike Pence
It’s one (terrible and ill-advised) thing to politely pretend that Pence’s tenure in Indiana wasn’t uniformly awful for anyone who wasn’t Mike Pence. It’s another to rewrite history.
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NBC and the Manufacturing of Donald Trump
The Apprentice groomed millions of future voters to believe that women and people of color are less competent than white men, who are natural leaders; business ethics are a joke; gratuitous offensiveness is admirable honesty; and Trump’s judgment matters more than anyone else’s.
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Are You Buying For-Profit Feminism?: We Bet You Are And You Probably Don’t Even Know It
We’re here to work against the clean, mainstream, for-profit media narrative of calling ourselves feminists and then calling it a day.
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The Worst 100 Days: Make “Alternative Facts” Lies Again
In a postfactual world, the question of how to report, broadcast, and process news is more pressing than ever.
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No Disrespect: Black Women and the Burden of Respectability
The public image of black female dignity is routinely attacked by a 24/7 media-industrial complex that serves up a steady stream of caricature.
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Pantsuit on Fire: The Founder of a Facebook Community Cashes In
Chamberlain, who is neither an activist nor an author, is cashing in on what amounts to the labor of strangers.
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Freedom of Information: Libraries in the Age of Trump
Libraries are radical, evolving resources that function with the sole purpose of providing free access to information for the masses and creating intellectual equality.
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The Year in Black Girl Magic
Everything is terrible, but Black women stepped up to keep the ship from capsizing by creating art, speaking out politically, and generally being excellent.
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