The Women of Wakanda: Nakia is the Real Revolutionary of “Black Panther”
Okoye, Shuri, and Nakia inherently understand that Wakanda is bigger than them.
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The Love Below: 15 Black Romance Movies You Can Watch This Month
What the Obamas have built in real life is available to other Black people through cinema.
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The Authenticity Factor: “The Chi” Shows That Violence Isn’t Chicago’s Only Story
The Chi shows the dimensions of Chicago’s South Side and its people.
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Bait and Switch: The 7 Best Episodes of “Catfish”
What a mess. I couldn’t stop watching if I tried.
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Already Whole: How Hollywood’s Biggest Hits Shut Out Disability
Disability discrimination is deeply ingrained in the fabric of our society and almost universally enforced by the stories we tell in the media we gleefully consume.
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Scully, the Victim: The Legacy of Gendered Violence on The X-Files
Has The X-Files finally gone too far with its incisive, sometimes morbid preoccupation with the intimate harms inflicted on women?
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Backtalk: #MeToo Backlash & Larry Nassar Sentencing
This week, Dahlia and Amy dig into the latest “feminist” backlash against the #MeToo movement in light of Babe.Net’s Aziz Ansari—a story which showed how a celebrity who banked on his male feminist allyship ultimately doesn’t want to respect boundaries around consent. Then they talk about the... Read more »
Revenge of the Nerd: “Dawson’s Creek” and the Nice Guy Trope
Dawson is an early prototype of the Woke Misogynist.
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We All Need a Squeeze: “Dr. Pimple Popper” Shows the True Meaning of Body Positivity
A simplistic view of body positive journeys denies access to the ongoing journey to merge the personal and political.
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How TV Finally Got Realistic About Abortions
Getting abortion right matters more than ever.
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