Culture
“Nightmare Temptation Academy” Is a Video Game Challenging Rape Culture
Creator Lena NW’s shit isn’t for everyone.
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We Were Rooting for You: On the Changing Legacy of Tyra Banks
Banks has been around since the ’90s, but it has taken this long to reckon with her true legacy.
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Subliminal Messaging: This YouTube Trend Promises Teens the Power of Self-Perfection
Subliminals call to mind new-agey fads of yore.
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Remember and Resolve: Choice Is Central to “The Opposite of Fate”
Every choice we make is influenced by everything that has come to bear in our own lives and on our own belief systems.
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Weaving the Wall: Devotional Art Counters State Violence in the Borderlands
Border artists summon the sacred and repair what has been broken.
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Dr. Luke is Overshadowing a Woman’s Accomplishment. Again.
Though Dr. Luke should be a pariah in the music industry, he’s instead credited as one of the producers on “Say So.”
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We’ve Entered Peak Dystopian Television, and Chris Harrison is Our King
Dystopian television is here, and it’s coming for our love lives—whether through song, or otherwise.
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Her Own Terms: “Brown Album” is Porochista Khakpour’s Ode to the Others of Society
“Brown Album” clarifies who Porochista Khakpour considers her audience to be: those who have been othered in the United States of America.
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Never Have I Ever Watched a Better Comedy about Grief
Saying goodbye to those we love when they pass on is the hardest thing we’ll ever do; it is also the most necessary.
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