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Visibility or Complicity?: Western capitalism gets its hands on the hijab
Like most people of color, Muslims—especially women and trans folks—have been denied visibility by popular culture and media.
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Part III: Is Anyone Surprised That Bustle Is Ghosting Us?
Could there be a clearer example of corporate media literally silencing any opinion that doesn’t serve it?
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Part III: Is Anyone Surprised That Bustle Is Ghosting Us?
Could there be a clearer example of corporate media literally silencing any opinion that doesn’t serve it?
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The Sugar of Black Cool: Pepsi’s Botched Commercial Is Just One Problem in the Web of Food Justice
If the primary response to the Pepsi commercial doesn’t center on youth of color, we’re all missing the point.
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Personal Shopper: An Acute Study of Boredom and Grief
Personal Shopper is a documentation of the period right after everything falls apart and before you can begin to put it back together.
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Backtalk: Pepsi Fail & The Harasser Factor
Dahlia and Amy chat about bad Pepsi optics, capitalism, and cola. Pepsi’s latest ad stars Kendall Jenner, the most cheerful group of protestors, and a slew of asinine signs. Profiting off of grassroots and the slew of recent protests is a new low, even for a soda company whose sole job is to... Read more »
March Madness: Marketing Women's History Month
Since January, my inbox has been brimming with press releases for female-specific products and services described with one or more of the following terms: “revolution,” “empowering,” “strong,” “confident,” and “kickass.”
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The Super Bowl Commercials—It's Not Such a Small World After All
This current administration forces us to question everything around us, even the commercials we watch.
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The Honest Company's Anti-Political #TheySeeLove Campaign Is So Infuriating
The ads are all about not seeing politics, just love. Well, I am political because I love. I love my family, my friends, my country.
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Marketplace feminism through the decades : 11 Shameless Attempts by Advertisers to Sell Women on Their Own Commodity Empowerment
Capitalism: monetizing liberation since forever.
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