Culture
White Lies: Unilever and L’Oréal Can’t Rebrand Their Way Out of Colorism
The sales pitch of whitening products isn’t just a paler complexion, but also the promise of hygiene and health.
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“Palm Springs” Taps into the Idea That Time Loops Fix Women
The pursuit of betterment means losing a part of themselves along the way.
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Stinging Stans: Swifties Doxxing Journalists Is Just the Beginning
People don’t really know what to think about fangirls or teenage girls in general.
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Eugenics as Entertainment: “Indian Matchmaking’s” Lighthearted View of Caste Oppression
Indian Matchmaking reveals all the isms associated with arranged marriages—colorism, casteism, sizeism, ableism, and classism—without criticizing any of it.
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Valorizing Purity: What White Women Gain from Racial Hatred
Women have often been written out of the history of hate and related phenomena.
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Journalistic Norms Dishonor Sexual Assault Survivors
A journalist’s hands are frequently tied by the same unjust systems.
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Streaming Isn’t Music’s Magic Bullet
Independent artists are reckoning with what it means to work on their own terms in an industry that’s increasingly led by a small number of billion-dollar data and tech companies.
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Fanfiction to Film: “The Kissing Booth” Brings Misogyny from Wattpad to Netflix
Why are the fanfics that become films so misogynist?
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Does Taylor Swift Have to Be Queer for “folklore” to be a Lesbian Album?
Longing is, after all, queer.
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Like Kat Edison, Many Black Women in Media Can’t Catch a Break
The Bold Type isn’t so bold when it comes to Kat, its Black, queer protagonist.
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