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Vanessa Willoughby

Vanessa Willoughby is an editor and a pop culture writer whose bylines include the New York Times, Bitch Media, Allure, Teen Vogue, and BookPage. She is a featured contributor in the anthology The Weird Sister Collection (The Feminist Press, 2024).

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Good White People Can Be Racist, Too

Complicity can often look like delusional optimism.

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Go Girl, Give Us Nothing!: Why Hollywood Undervalues Original Storytelling

Why do studios keep pumping out sequels, reboots, and remakes of the same old IP?

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Loud and Clear

There is no punk without Black women.