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The Lie That Feeds Our Ugly Fascination with Makeover Shows
How do you produce a show that purports to make women more beautiful—presenting them as undesirable as is—and still manage to preach self-love?
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On “90 Day Fiancé,” Love Is a Form of Capital
90 Day Fiancé exposes the attitudes and practices that have foreground America’s history of anti-immigrant sentiment, nativism, racism, and xenophobia.
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In Favor of Straight White Viewers, “Queer Eye” Lives in the Middle Ground
Many straight women love and enjoy Queer Eye. Does it hold the same weight with queer women?
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Reality Check: What Gets Left on “Queer Eye’s” Cutting-Room Floor?
Narratives outside of those constructed and aired by Netflix suggest much more meaningful interactions took place during filming.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Queer Love on “The Bachelor”
Finally, the queer love story we all deserve.
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Amara Y Mas: Race, Ethnicity, and Afro-Latinx Womanhood
What if we tore down the house that narrows our vision of Latinx identity?
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Bait and Switch: The 7 Best Episodes of “Catfish”
What a mess. I couldn’t stop watching if I tried.
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Trump is Treating the Election As His Own Terrible Reality TV Show
On The Apprentice, contestants were rewarded for bad behavior and putting profit over all. Now Trump brings those shady ethics to the campaign trail.
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