Culture
Punching Down: Why Netflix Deserves Some of the Heat for Dave Chapelle’s Transphobic Comments
Focusing the blame only on the comedian is no longer enough.
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Bad Sport: “Squid Game” Exposes the False Rhetoric of “Choice” and “Resilience”
Resilience is admirable; challenging the system is intolerable.
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One-Inch Barrier: How Americans Watch Netflix’s “Squid Game” Matters
Americans really, really don’t like subtitles.
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BitchReads: 13 Books Feminists Should Read in October
Cozy up with a new title this month.
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5 Feminist Albums That Got Us Through September
Kacey Musgraves exposed her failed marriage, Yebba addressed family tragedy, and Lil Nas X released his triumphant debut.
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Cop Out: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s” Finale Fails to Reckon with Its Pro-cop Legacy
Brooklyn Nine-Nine was, at heart, copaganda—a show that, in the midst of a growing real-life reckoning, made viewers feel good—or, if not good, better—about American policing.
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Love Is the Drug: “Crazy For You” Puts a Societal Lens on Love and Sex Addiction
Reframing the way we think about love and sex can change our lives.
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The Ends Justify the Screens: Why Onscreen AAPI Representation Simply Isn’t Enough
Within a few weeks of each other, scandals regarding racist production practices on both Kim’s Convenience and Shadow and Bone made headlines.
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All the Ladies in the House: “Impeachment: American Crime Story” Has a Woman Problem
A paper-thin portrait of political women leans into the prurient, and assumes the worst.
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Socialist Anxiety: Sally Rooney’s New Novel Reveals an Author Trapped By Herself
The insistent classification of Rooney’s work as Marxist has long felt like a stretch.
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