Culture
Immigration as Inspiration: Who Gets to Be an All-American Girl?
It’s very hard for people who are not immigrants to really understand what it’s like to move to a place where you don’t speak the language and how hard it is to find a home.
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Manipulation By “Transparency”: The Rise and Fall of Everlane
“Ethical fashion” has long been a phrase used to lure customers.
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Mixtape to My Heart: Music as a Function of Vietnamese Memory
Music needs minds and media to carry it, but it doesn’t need bags. Music can’t sink boats.
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“Promising Young Woman” Aims to Redeem the Rape-Revenge Tale. Does It?
In recent decades, audiences have become desensitized to rape stories.
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Samantha Irby on “Wow, No Thank You” and Desanitizing Women’s Lives and Bodies
Samantha Irby will make you cringe as hard as you laugh.
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Of Course We’re Attracted to Chaotic TV Shows Right Now
Though this seems to be a counterintuitive phenomenon, it appears we’re all turning to anxiety-inducing TV in these exceptionally anxiety-inducing times.
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Truth Hurts: Fat, Black, and Too Good to Cancel
In every industry Black women have to work four times as hard for less than half the credit.
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Love the Hard Way: Reflecting on the Magnificence of “The Bluest Eye”
“Ugliness,” one of the novel’s running themes, is examined under an unforgiving spotlight because it’s such a familiar experience for young Black girls.
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Very Online: “Karen” Isn’t a Slur—It’s a Critique of Entitled White Womanhood
A Karen’s racism is inextricable from her white womanhood.
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Sunday Best: The Beauty and Timelessness of Black Adornment Rituals
Fashion rituals are a set of acts, an unwritten code of survival, that are passed down from generation to generation.
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