Culture
Escapist Young Adult Novels Offer a Breath of Fresh Air in the Current Political Climate
These stories are escapist fiction—literature that doesn’t explicitly focus on the social and political issues in our real world, allowing the reader to temporarily forget about them and fall into the story.
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#GirlsLikeUs: Trans Feminist Advocacy and Community Building
Black trans women and their political frameworks have become the face not only of trans issues but of LGBT issues as a whole—a representation few could have imagined even a decade ago.
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Popaganda: How to Lipstick It to the Man
Lipstick Lobby burst onto the scene in 2017 with a unique mission: to manufacture lipsticks that looked good and do good, too.
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“Love Is Blind” Shows There’s No Bisexual Boom for Black Men
Televison’s “bisexual boom” hasn’t yet reached Black men.
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Women in Dancehall Turn up for Pleasure Parity
Though dancehall has long been considered a platform for both men and women to unapologetically express their sexual prowess, the genre also has its limitations.
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Safe and Sound: How Podcasts Became Audio Enclaves for Black Women
In a world that has very few spaces for us, podcasts that lift up and celebrate Black women listeners are a welcome breath of fresh air.
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Very Online: Kaitlin Bennett Is the Latest Conservative White Woman to Build a Career on Outrage
Kaitlin Bennett has built a career via the digitization of white women’s tears.
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Time Warp: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Isn’t Quite so Marvelous Anymore
The show grazed over issues of identity and violence like a skipping stone.
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Corseted Up: Victorian Ideals Are Still Binding up Women
A woman who meets the world with intensity is a woman who endures lashes of shame and disapproval.
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The Music and the Misery: Hulu’s New “High Fidelity” Upends a Male Classic
The new reboot proves that music-snobbery is an equal-opportunity annoyance.
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