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In Season 2, “PEN15” Gets Real About Teenage Slut-Shaming
While the first season of PEN15 highlights teen girls’ sexuality, the second showcases the ways they’re punished for it.
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Disney’s “Mulan” Remake Doesn’t Challenge the Patriarchy. It Reinforces It
In the apocalyptic hellscape that is today’s political climate, we deserved a Mulan with humanity.
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Jumping Boundaries: “The Bachelor” Rewards Red Flags in Relationships
In The Bachelor universe, men are encouraged to fight for love and to never give up.
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Conjuring Possibilities: Remembering Chadwick Boseman, a Champion of Black Stories
Popular media is a feedback loop that both tells us how to exist in the world and reinforces what we believe is possible.
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“Legend of Korra” Shows How to Navigate PTSD While Fighting Injustice
Legend of Korra shows TV viewers that it’s possible to manage trauma—even while continuing the fight for justice.
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Begone with the Wind: How Hollywood Rewrites Slavery
If these cinematic perceptions of slavery are committed to memory, then we might accept the plantation as a mere backdrop to terror rather than the very site of it.
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Hustle & Glow: “P-Valley” Puts Black Southern Strippers in the Spotlight
The show is an expansive portrait of poverty, racism, misogyny and the Black Southern pride that pushes back against oppression.
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Horny Cailíní: Irish Girls Get Their Onscreen Sexual Renaissance
The women at the center of these series proudly flaunt their brazen desire.
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“An American Pickle” Finds Humor in Uniquely Jewish Hardship
Seth Rogen embodies both his own Jewish present and a collective and just-out-of-reach Jewish past.
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Third Party Clarity: Therapy Is a Luxury for Pop Culture’s Troubled Mother-Daughter Pairs
In film and television, few relationships are as fraught as the one between a mother and a daughter.
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