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“Love Is Blind” Shows There’s No Bisexual Boom for Black Men

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
February 27, 2020 at 12:12pm
Televison’s “bisexual boom” hasn’t yet reached Black men. Read more »
Midge Maisel, a young, white woman with brown hair, poses on a street corner

Time Warp: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Isn’t Quite so Marvelous Anymore

by Noa Azulai
February 24, 2020 at 9:00am
The show grazed over issues of identity and violence like a skipping stone. Read more »
Zoe Kravitz plays Rob, a lightskinned Black woman with long, faux locs standing in a dark bar, in High Fidelity

The Music and the Misery: Hulu’s New “High Fidelity” Upends a Male Classic

by Andi Zeisler
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The new reboot proves that music-snobbery is an equal-opportunity annoyance. Read more »
Two teen girls, Lily, a tall white girl with brown hair in buns, and Ola, a short brown girl with short natural hair, stand side by side at a fair.

The Final Frontier: With “Sex Education,” Netflix Expands the Pleasure Discourse

by Cameron Glover
February 19, 2020 at 12:33pm
The centralizing of pleasure is what makes Sex Education shine. Read more »
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The Lie That Feeds Our Ugly Fascination with Makeover Shows

by Dara Mathis
February 19, 2020 at 9:00am
How do you produce a show that purports to make women more beautiful—presenting them as undesirable as is—and still manage to preach self-love? Read more »
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, a white woman with bleach blond hair, smiles at the camera. She has bright blue eyes and a heart tattooed on her cheek, in Birds of Prey

Badass Broad with a PhD: In “Birds of Prey,” Harley Quinn Is Free of Joker and Sexist Branding

by Rebecca Long
February 14, 2020 at 10:00am
 Birds of Prey sets the bar for nuanced depictions of female comic-book characters on the big screen. Read more »
Diane Nguyen, a Vietnamese woman, is talking to BoJack outside at a party

An Ode to Diane Nguyen, Depressed Feminist Writer

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
February 10, 2020 at 4:23pm
“You’re responsible for your own happiness.” Read more »
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Take It Sleazy: A “Good Place” Goodbye Roundtable

by Bitch HQ
February 7, 2020 at 2:11pm
Fire up the old heart flattener. Read more »
a side-by-side collage of four actresses: Ana de Armas, Park So-dam, Lupita Nyong’o, and Jennifer Lopez

Presenting Our Alternative Oscars List Because the Academy Is Still White as Fuck

by Bitch HQ
February 7, 2020 at 1:45pm
Cinema means so much to so many different people, and we hope this list is reflective of that. Read more »
Jude Valentin, a plus-size person of color, sits on the ground in a red skirt and smiles at the camera

Off the Scale: Creating Fuller Stories About Fat People

by Samantha Puc
February 4, 2020 at 1:50pm
In order to continue creating more authentic stories about fat people, more fat creators must be hired in writer’s rooms, granted book deals, and tapped by Hollywood to adapt their stories. Read more »

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