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Dead Wrong: AMC’s “The Preppy Murder” Revisits a Shameful Perversion of Justice
Women’s lives, their senses of self, their career options, and their public images remain collateral when it comes time to uphold those same things for the men who harmed them.
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Fighting to Thrive: Reflecting on “Boys Don’t Cry” 20 Years Later
Representation matters, but so do the stories that the media—film and television—chooses to tell about trans lives.
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The Final (Male) Frontier: “Lucy in the Sky” and “Proxima” Bring Women Astronauts down to Earth
The final frontier continues to be a male-dominated arena, fertile ground for storytelling that taps into masculine psychologies in symbolically grandiose fashion.
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Bending Reality: “Undone” Is a Testament to Hollywood’s Cripping up Problem
Disabled stories need disabled writers, consultants, directors and producers, too.
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5 Underrated Messy Bisexual Characters Blessing Our Televisions
Most importantly, none of these characters are “perfect.”
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The “Steven Universe” Movie Reminds Us That Change is the Only Path to Growth
There are few cartoons—few series as a whole—as impactful as Steven Universe.
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Scared Silly: Jenny Slate’s “Stage Fright” Gives New Meaning to the Phrase “Standing up to Fear”
Stage Fright is a distillation of how we live with and confront fear, and the lifelong process—and joy—of overcoming it.
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On “90 Day Fiancé,” Love Is a Form of Capital
90 Day Fiancé exposes the attitudes and practices that have foreground America’s history of anti-immigrant sentiment, nativism, racism, and xenophobia.
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What the Styling of Good Janet on “The Good Place” Shows about Sexist Character Design
With Good Janet versus Bad Janet, The Good Place uses fashion to signify goodness.
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On Becoming a Fraud in Central Florida
The show offers a sharp critique of the broader capitalist system that harms us all.
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