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Sex Workers Have Always Known That Zoom Is Anti-sex. Now, the Public Knows Too.
As we move into a more permanent online existence, people should be paying more attention to issues of surveillance.
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Glamour Shots: #HospitalGlam Pulls Back the Curtain on Disability and Beauty
Karolyn Gehrig is referring to both healthcare’s status as a luxury good, and the way traditional poses of illness are used to sell health and beauty back to us.
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We Were Rooting for You: On the Changing Legacy of Tyra Banks
Banks has been around since the ’90s, but it has taken this long to reckon with her true legacy.
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Subliminal Messaging: This YouTube Trend Promises Teens the Power of Self-Perfection
Subliminals call to mind new-agey fads of yore.
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Very Online: Twitter Has United Freelance Writers and Fair-Pay Advocates
“People are reading more content, and there are more freelancers, but there are fewer editors and staffers, and less money.”
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Not Your Crisis Daddy: Is Memeing Politicians Critique—or PR?
Memes stand apart in a range of political coverage that includes everything from established news reporting to satirical forums.
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Lose Yourself: The Complex, Comforting Allure of Not Being Seen
What does it mean to be able to reject the gaze before it even happens?
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Inside the House: “Mueller, She Wrote” Is Sounding the Alarm on Trump
This government is our government, and it’s up to us to save it.
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Digital Vitriol: White Supremacists Are Capitalizing on Our Reliance on Zoom
This recent wave of digital terrorism is a predictor of what’s to come.
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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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