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Family Ties: “Hustlers” Promises Crime, but Delivers Matriarchy
Ramona frames all of her behaviors as acts of love, whether she’s teaching Destiny how to diversify her stripping moves or instructing the larger team of women on how to seduce, drug, and steal money from white, wealthy, and unsuspecting men.
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BitchWatch: 7 Movies Feminists Should Watch This Fall
This fall, we’re anticipating movies about women astronauts, another Charlie’s Angels reboot, and a thriller all about socioeconomic class.
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BitchWatch: 9 TV Shows Feminists Should Watch this Fall
From Netflix to cable, fall television is filled with feminist TV shows.
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Burning Issue: “Embrace of the Serpent“ Sees Capitalist Destruction through Indigenous Eyes
The film subverts a colonialist narrative by presenting the experience of a white man on Amazon land—not through his eyes, but through those of the people he’s exploiting.
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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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