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“Bad Hair” Makes a Tangled Mess of Black Women’s Woes
In his quest to create a fable about Black women’s hair, Justin Simien overlooks the actual function it plays in Black women’s lives.
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Pausing the Panic Button: Can Religious Scholarship Teach Media Literacy?
Moral panics about sexually disturbing or explicit media are hardly new or uncommon.
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Mind Interrupted: The Horrifying Manipulation of Black Women’s Psyches
The traumatic spectacles of these transformations often reveal so little about the interiority of the fictional Black women who experience them.
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BitchWatch: 15 Shows Feminists Should Watch This Fall
This list has it all, from scary shows to calming ones.
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Trauma Loop: “Antebellum” Mishandles Its Message
The film is fixated on racism as an act of overt violence, but racism is so monstrous because it can appear so deceptively normal.
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In “Emily in Paris,” Being Thin and White Is a Path to Success
Emily is yet another thin white woman who fails upward.
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“Blacklight” Spins a New Tale about Strippers in New Orleans
Sex workers are very dynamic and have their own varied, colorful lives.
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Colorblind Justice: “Unpregnant” Is Too White to Be Revolutionary
While Unpregnant succeeds in illustrating a larger thesis about the state-sanctioned roadblocks to abortion, it fails at developing its supporting characters.
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Polish and Privilege: “RHONY” Illuminates the Class Divide in America
Extreme economic disparity in America is the problem. RHONY just makes it visible.
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Ellen DeGeneres and the Many Chances We Give Famous White Women
We give white women so many chances.
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