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5 Powerful Lessons Arya Stark Teaches about Surviving Trauma
Arya Stark’s darkness is not minimized or sugarcoated.
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Ride or Fly: “Tuca & Bertie” Offers a New Tail about Women’s Friendship
Stories about female friendships are often bookended by one or both of the friends experiencing a big life change and moving on.
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Lisa Hanawalt on Animating Your Own Escape
People are finally starting to pay attention to the terrible ways women are treated, but every animation studio and production company needs to be less oblivious.
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Esmé Wang Finds Meaning in “The Collected Schizophrenias"
There are no easy solutions to the problems Esmé Weijun Wang poses, but she has provided us with the truth of her own story.
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“Made in Heaven” Injects Feminism into India’s Big Wedding Industry
Though the show is purportedly about the lives of the wedding planners, its goal is in fact to not just challenge the patriarchy but to crush it under a designer heel.
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Male Rape is No Joke—But Pop Culture Often Treats It That Way
From Wedding Crashers to 40 Days and 40 Nights, films often treat sexual assault of men as a punchline.
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Carrying the Torch: Beyoncé Embodies the FUBU Mantra in “Homecoming”
Black women have long been the collectors of knowledge in the Black community.
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The “Claws” Effect: “Good Girls” Is More Than a Guilty Pleasure
These women are more concerned about paying their mortgages, caring for their children, and fighting complicated custody battles than facing consequences.
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A Girl Has Sex: Three Cheers for Arya Stark’s Sex Scene
Given Arya’s recent past, this might be the most wholesome thing she’s done in a while.
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“Cuz I Love You” Invites Women to a Self-Love that Runs Deeper than Hashtags
Cuz I Love You’s self-love anthems aren’t cheesy, forced, or performative, thanks to Lizzo’s evolution as an artist.
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