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Bucky With the Good Arm: Fans’ Response to Wakandan Justice Is Peak Whiteness
As the internet ruminates on Marvel’s latest hit show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, one scene in particular has ignited debate across Twitter.
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Love Is the Message: The Final Season of “Pose” Hands Out Happily Ever Afters
We’ve cried with them and mourned for them, but the third and final season of Pose gives us reasons to smile for them.
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A Woman Hasn’t Won a Writing Oscar in 13 Years. That Could Change on Sunday.
A female screenwriter hasn’t won an Oscar since George W. Bush was in office.
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Cat-Eared Brainwashing: “Josie and the Pussycats” Prophesied the Age of Influencers
It’s a film that tickles the absurdities of the past and, in doing so, has successfully determined the misfortunes of our future.
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“Shadow and Bone” Diversifies Its Fantasy World
The characters feel like a chosen family who are just starting to come together.
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“Them” and Us: Do We Need to Televise Black Pain to Take It Seriously?
Stomach-churning violence against Black women is near constant.
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One True Pairing: “Younger” Is Ultimately a Rom-Com about Women
The show is more than a rom-com about a cishet love triangle between Liza and two men.
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Love and Surveillance: Dating Shows Channel More Than Reality
Netflix released multiple reality TV shows in 2020 that feature beautiful people blissfully succumbing to the power of being watched.
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Botch Goddess: How Bridget Jones Redefined Career Failure
The unlikely icon made fallibility as a career asset.
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Quid Pro No: Women Approach Power from a New Direction
Recent representations of women on television have reset gender hierarchies centered around cishet male desire.
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