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Blood Sport: The Most Feminist Part of “IT Chapter Two” Is a Staple in Horror
There’s one genre that has never shied away from depicting menstruation: horror.
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Ashes to Ashes, Outer space to Oceans: Who Gets to Have an Alternative Death in America?
Many of the faces of “alternative death” are white, and there’s much less engagement with the cultural, community, and social traditions of communities of diverse color and faith in America.
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A Quick History of TV’s Elusive Quest for Complex Black Lesbians
Characters are being given more complexity onscreen, as they are offered the chance to explore their queerness in ways typically reserved for white queer women.
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“Four Weddings” Is Still a Pop Culture Starting Point for Sign Language
It helps not to think of a signed language, a written language, and a spoken one as being in any way connected to each other at all, but to recognize them as distinct, each one a living, breathing entity.
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In Hot Water: “The Kitchen” Is a Comic-Book Adaptation Whose Diversity Feels Forced
The film pushes a shallow image of female unity, flattening the complex characters from the comic into easily readable types.
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Hot Mic: Priyanka Chopra’s Selectively Woke Stardom Is a Strategic—and Risky—Decision
Diasporas and communities of color often feel that we must pedestalize even the least bit of representation that comes our way.
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Not A Stereotype: 5 TV Shows That Depict Mental Health Surprisingly Well
TV is slowly making progress and learning how to tell the stories of characters with mental health conditions.
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Drama, Not Trauma: Rape Culture, “Veronica Mars,” and the Spectacle of Sexual Violence
From the very beginning, sexual assault is simply fodder for drama in the world of Neptune, California.
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In Favor of Straight White Viewers, “Queer Eye” Lives in the Middle Ground
Many straight women love and enjoy Queer Eye. Does it hold the same weight with queer women?
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In “The Nightingale,” Rape is a Tool of Colonialism
The horror depicted in The Nightingale is that of colonial violence’s endlessness, a war for power designed to go on forever.
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