Culture
The Final Rose: A Black Bachelor Can’t Fix a Franchise’s Race Problem
The Bachelor franchise survives in the streaming age because it coddles white fragility.
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Sound Out: Coming Home to Lavender Country
Queer country artists have been making their voices known for decades.
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Petty, Egotistical Barbs Overshadow J. Cole’s Important Message
Holding people, including Black celebrities accountable for their inaction or misguided action, isn’t an attack or an attempt to create undue separation between Black men and Black women.
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Unexpected Connection: “Felix Ever After” Lets Queer and Trans Teens Be Messy
The characterization in this book should serve as an example to others writing queer YA in 2020.
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Abstract Pain: George Floyd and the Viral Spectacle of Black Death
Black people’s deaths at the hands of police officers are, like everything now, mediated through the internet, with the negotiation of life and death spread through videos that go viral.
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Greater Expectations: Through Music, Dua Saleh Nurtures Personal and Political Identity
“My brain was manufacturing new language because I was refusing to be seen as a woman.”
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Rupture and Reform: “You Exist Too Much” Is a Meditation on Queerness and Desire
Obsession serves a two-pronged function in queer stories.
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Data Healing: Digital Doulas Take Restorative Justice to Cyberspace
From surveillance to racist algorithms, the internet has routinely been used as a tool of global capitalism and white supremacy.
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Very Online: The Literary World May Never Recover from #PublishingPaidMe
For Black writers, Twitter acts as a guiding force.
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Ladies on Fire: “Betty” Is More Than a Skateboarding Show about Women
Betty isn’t a show made to shatter glass ceilings so much as it is to empower those pushing against it.
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