FlytrapxBitch “The White Lotus” Shines Its Tiki Torch on Settler Colonization’s Greatest Exports Can whiteness be centered in our attempt to decolonize? Or is the effort to dismantle settler colonization merely a vessel—a rowboat—for appeasing white shame?
pop culture I Saw My Own Search for Sunlight in “Heated Rivalry” 'Heated Rivalry' dares to ask: Why should queer athletes be forced to choose between their identity and their sport?
Paid-members only film 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?
Paid-members only television Can Coercive Control on TV Interrupt Real Cycles of Intimate Partner Violence? Television transformed how I think about abuse in romantic relationships.
Paid-members only television If Fat Bodies Are ‘Problems,’ Then We Need New Equations ‘The Biggest Loser’ was the worst vision of a fat future. Fat liberationists are done losing that fight.
pop culture The Case for Magical Boys If anime can subvert and complicate femininity in magical girl shows, it can do the same for masculinity with magical boys.
family Feast of the Seven Fishes and Eight Abs Canceling Vinny Guadagnino and Christmas Eve at the Jersey Shore.
pop culture Young, Fat, and Gifted Two new streaming comedies show viewers are eager for stories about fat Black women that don’t just rewrite old, damaging scripts about our lives.
television The Freaky Feminism of 'Evil,' TV's Weirdest Horror Hit Showrunners Michelle and Robert King surrounded their demons-of-the-week with feminist signifiers, but ultimately stopped short of really condemning the patriarchy.
family I Missed My Mom. So I Rewatched All Nine Seasons of 'Roseanne.' Thirty-six years to the day after its debut, the sitcom is still groundbreaking — but also, now, genuinely heartbreaking ... on so many levels.
