Pinned‘White Seeming’ and the inner turmoil of mixed-race Americans“I am black. I am African American. My mother is black. My father is Italian. My sister and I are mixed however I’m white passing.”Jun 16, 2021Jun 16, 2021
Enola Holmes: Feminism for DummiesAt its best, Netflix’s Enola Holmes is a good college try at reinventing the worn-out trope of a young, rebellious woman fighting for…Jun 17, 2021Jun 17, 2021
‘The Queen’s Gambit’: Revisiting the Addicting Teen Heroine TropeBeth Harmon sits up in a tub, soaking wet, and rushes around her Parisian room. She cleans up her act and puts on a swinging green dress…Jun 17, 2021Jun 17, 2021
“You Go, Boy!”: The fight against toxic masculinity in HollywoodMaybe I was lucky. Maybe we all were. Girls, I mean. It feels strange to write that women were “lucky,” but maybe my generation was just —…Jun 16, 2021Jun 16, 2021
The Forgotten Selfies“Consider this: maybe a woman — or really any person — who takes and publishes many pictures of herself is simply ambitious. She wants…Jun 16, 2021Jun 16, 2021
