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New Music Monday: La Dame Blanche
Our SXSW coverage continues with Cuban multi-instrumentalist La Dame Blanche, who blends genres like a painter mixes paint.
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Listening to Janelle Monáe: Lean Close to Observe the Myriad of Lives, Desires, and Complexities of Black Women
In each of Monáe’s performances, Monáe demonstrates her understanding—no, overstanding—of the complexity of Black women’s lives, desires, and perspectives.
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BitchTapes SXSW Preview
Bitch Media is headed back to the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas for the next week. Here’s a sample of what we’re most excited about seeing.
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“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Empowered Women By Tapping into Ancestral Forces
It’s through magic that Willow Rosenberg gains an unparalleled confidence and power that eventually rivals even Buffy Summers’s own superhero nature. When brute strength and even brains fail (as they often do), it is magic that saves the Scoobies time and time again.
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Shedding (Moon)Light on Toxic Masculinity: The Problem is Homophobia, not Gay Characters
Gay Black men are not a problem. Toxic masculinity, however, is. And the twisted view of manhood festering in some traditionalist corners is damaging to all Black men—as well as to women and girls.
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Because White Men Can’t Police Their Imaginations: Police Brutality in Anaheim
Why did an off-duty police officer confront teenagers walking home from school with a gun?
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New Music Moday: Moor Mother
Moor Mother’s music is not for the faint of heart (or ears). If you’re not on her wavelength, get out of her way.
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“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Celebrated the Joy of Female Power
Despite her petite frame, Buffy can turn around and kick the bad guy’s ass. Her diminutive size is a fake-out. Such assumptions about girls and girl power work as sneak-attack feminism throughout the series, teaching politics about bodily autonomy through superheroism.
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Soft Serve : The Media Normalization of Mike Pence
It’s one (terrible and ill-advised) thing to politely pretend that Pence’s tenure in Indiana wasn’t uniformly awful for anyone who wasn’t Mike Pence. It’s another to rewrite history.
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March Madness: Marketing Women's History Month
Since January, my inbox has been brimming with press releases for female-specific products and services described with one or more of the following terms: “revolution,” “empowering,” “strong,” “confident,” and “kickass.”
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