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an Indian woman wearing a hijab leans her head back as a swab is stuck in her nostril

In India’s COVID-19 Crisis, Social Media Does What Government Won’t

by Agnee Ghosh
May 19, 2021 at 12:18pm
Social media has emerged as a COVID-19 helpline full of flood of requests for ICU beds, oxygen, and antiviral drugs like Remdesivir. Read more »
Illustration of Bitcoin symbol positioned between stars and planets like a constellation in a purple night sky

Bitcoin Is Astrology for Men

by Jess Thomson
May 18, 2021 at 1:07pm
Astrology is sometimes looked down on, while cryptocurrency is heralded as the future of finance. Read more »
a thin white woman with short bleach blond hair sits on the bed and stares at the screen of her Macbook laptop

Mean to an End: How Online Harassment Became a Feature, Not a Bug

by Jenna Mahale
May 12, 2021 at 4:01pm
The facilitation of harassment may be social media’s most reliable content strategy. Read more »
a collage of Saweetie, a lightskinned Black woman wearing a mesh shirt and gold chains, and Rihanna, a lightskinned Black woman wearing a light blue gown surrounded by imagery related to social media

Saweetie, Rihanna, and the Memeification of Domestic Violence

by Heven Haile
May 10, 2021 at 10:05am
What does it mean to live in a society where violence against women and girls is treated as comedic fodder? Read more »
Three women in a pop punk band wearing cat ears posing with instruments.

Cat-Eared Brainwashing: “Josie and the Pussycats” Prophesied the Age of Influencers

by Dejan Jotanovic
April 21, 2021 at 10:41am
It’s a film that tickles the absurdities of the past and, in doing so, has successfully determined the misfortunes of our future. Read more »
Khloé Kardashian, a tall white woman, poses on Instagram in a sweat suit and a thong

Beyond Skin Deep: Khloé Kardashian, Madison Beer, and Social Media’s Unwinnable Beauty Game

by Lexi McMenamin
April 19, 2021 at 11:41am
We’re all body positive so long as that positivity includes warping ourselves beyond recognition. Read more »
a meme of Jenni Farley and Nicole Polizzi, two white women, with pink and purple text over their face

Unhappy Medium: The Business of Misery Memes

by Jenna Mahale
April 14, 2021 at 1:54pm
The meme has entered a new era as an emotional shorthand. Read more »
TikTok star Addison Rae, who is tan and white with brown hair, bites her fingernail and grimaces at the camera.

Viral Vultures: The Plight of Black TikTok Creatives

by Gloria Oladipo
April 2, 2021 at 9:06am
It’s not just about Addison Rae. Read more »
Jensen Karp, a white man, holds shrimp tails in her hand that allegedly came out of a Cinnamon Toast Crunch box

Shrimpy Shenanigans: We Could All See How the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Saga Would End

by s.e. smith
March 30, 2021 at 12:38pm
While the internet revels in tasks like identifying racists and getting them fired, it can struggle with milkshake ducks that may not have neat, tidy stories. Read more »
an illustration by Tara Anand of a South Asian Gen Z kid holding up their phone and their parent reading a newspaper as they sit next to each other on a couch giving each other the side-eye while the world burns outside the window behind them.

Boomer to Zoomer: Grim Generational Relations Aren’t An Accident

by Mary Retta
March 22, 2021 at 1:29pm
There is only one winner in a generation war, and it’s not millennials or boomers or Gen Z—it’s capitalism. Read more »

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A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

by Victoria Law
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Game Changer: Why Gaming Culture Allows Abuse... and How We Can Stop It

Game Changer Illustration by Jasmine Silver.
by Katherine Cross
Winter 2013 • Habit{at}

You're a Bolshevik feminist jewess that hates white people… and you expect to be taken seriously when you're “critique-ing” ...

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