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Boss Butch: “Gentleman Jack’s” Warm, Irreverent Take on 19th-Century Lesbian Desire
Gentleman Jack is unquestionably fun, but it also doesn’t set out to be an unconditional empowerment fantasy.
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Unbroken and Unbowed: Revisiting Disability Representation on “Game of Thrones”
Tyrion Lannister is a survivor in a deeply ableist family who loathes him for being a “dwarf.”
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Invisible Signs: What We’re Still Missing When We Talk about Domestic Violence
No Visible Bruises will raise awareness and save lives.
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Fire and Bleh: In the “Game of Thrones” Finale, We All Lost
We’ll never forget the show or its finale—but we’ll also never forget to look deeper at what it says about gender, representation, and episodic television as a whole.
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Cherríe Moraga Honors Her Foremothers in “Native Country of the Heart”
Capturing our foremothers’ stories is one of the ways in which women of color remember themselves.
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New Rules: Megan Thee Stallion’s Hot Girl Confidence is Super Infectious on “Fever”
“Fever” is a state of the union address for Megan’s “Hottie” nation.
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Popaganda: Fear
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself? Give me a break. What about being afraid of murder? Indefinite detention? Stand-up comedy? On this episode, we explore some of the many things that make us afraid. The show begins with a story from filmmaker Assia Boundaoui, who grew up in a mostly... Read more »
Singing about Female Masturbation Has Become Cool—but Is It Helping?
Singing about masturbation is, for women artists, still radical.
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Beyond the Back Alley: “Call the Midwife” and TV’s Stubborn Abortion Binary
To date, TV has told only a small, self-evident part of illegal abortion’s history.
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There’s No Such Thing as Objective Science
Science intentionally created, and continues to recreate, race.
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