Culture
Overstating Ohio: How “Law & Order: SVU” Increased Stigma about Abortion Bans
Evangeline’s story is more common than SVU would have us believe.
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99 Percent Savior: In Contemporary Horror, It’s the Final Girl versus the Rich
The Final Girl is no longer a babysitter or camp counselor, but a working-class outsider to wealth and decadence who is treated as an exploitable object to be lured in with money.
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Morbid Awakenings: Caitlin Doughty Is Helping Kids—and Adults—Ask Questions about Death
In the United States, death is hard to talk about; it’s arguably even harder to ask other people questions about.
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(Not So) Real Monsters: Why Do We Still Care about Ted Bundy?
What is there to learn from a serial killer who, like almost all notorious serial killers, is white, male, and wholly mediocre?
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Good As Hex: Lindy West’s “The Witches Are Coming” Brews up Anger and Optimism
Though Lindy West’s sarcasm is as extravagant as ever, it can’t be mistaken for cynicism.
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The Case for a Black Princess Carolyn
For Princess Carolyn, the case for her identity as a Black woman offers a more nuanced lens through which to view her character.
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Finite Love: What Lesbian Period Dramas Lose When We Project Our Fears on Them
Films and television series featuring queer characters are still relatively scarce.
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(Mis)measuring Intelligence: Environmental Racism Is Assaulting the Minds of People of Color
Harriet A. Washington argues that intelligence is malleable rather than fixed or inherited, and that it’s possible to solve the problem of poisons and pathogens attacking the nervous systems of people of color.
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30 Years Later, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” Is Still Inspiring Young Feminists
Kiki’s Delivery Service offers a safe space that makes you feel connected to others, but most importantly a community of powerful women.
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Miley Cyrus Might Be Pansexual, but That Doesn’t Mean She Cares about Queer People
It’s clear that Miley Cyrus’s intention of protecting the LGBTQ community only goes as far as it protects her personally.
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