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This week in awesome: Angela Davis writes at the Guardian about the possibilities of the Occupy movement…
…and Anna at Where Is Your Line talks about the... Read more »
Thursday Night 'Lights: Save Community!
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Community is being taken off NBC’s schedule indefinitely as of January. So I’ve decided to use this week’s episode to talk about why this series, as beloved by the Internet as it ignored by Nieslen families, deserves to... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Douche Coach Distributes Douchey Survey
After witnessing some of the ugliest effects of sports culture play out this past week, it’s good to see that some douchebags are being held (somewhat) accountable for their actions... Read more »
Mom & Pop Culture: Once Upon A Remake
We all know Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and others. Disney latched on to these classic fairy tales starting in the mid-20th century, and they began churning out princess after princess—treating these traditional stories as a marketers’ wet dream, resting on the faith that people will... Read more »
Bringing Up Baby: Women of Color with Wailing Babies in TVLand
To date, I’ve written 19 posts about representations of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care in the media. I’ve proffered examples from a variety of television series and films: Up All Night, The Office, True Grit, Glee, Knocked Up, Look Who’s Talking, The Rachel Zoe... Read more »
Mom & Pop Culture: When (My Little Pony) Remakes Get it Right
When My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic debuted in October of 2010, it started amassing a group of fans that nobody intended on: guys. Male fans of the show, or “bronies” as they call themselves, steadily grew in numbers and fandom—even getting together to watch it, trade/sell toys, write... Read more »
In the Frame: Guerrilla Girls Rule! (Here's How to Follow Their Lead)
The campaign for gender equality in art is essentially spearheaded by the Guerrilla Girls, a network of anonymous activists who go by the names of great artists like Frida Kahlo. Their mantra is: “We could be anyone... Read more »
Bringing Up Baby: The Overrepresentation of Fatherhood in TVLand
In today’s complex television landscape, it’s easy to argue that traditional conceptions of “parenthood” are changing as we see fewer heteronormative nuclear families, which reflects demographic and social changes in the real world. Yet a closer look at parenthood in contemporary... Read more »
Mom & Pop Culture: Remakes
This trend of remaking childhood classics holds no nostalgia for me. It only holds anger that companies feel that they can update a part of my childhood in order to double their profit margins and, in the same breath, insult my child by suggesting he won’t enjoy something with a simple,... Read more »
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