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Illustration: An anime magical boy looking fiercely at the camera, katana sheathed on his back.
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.
01 Apr 2025 8 min read
Illustration in green, yellow, and red: The Situation flexes in front of a wreath of evergreen leaves and fish under a sign reading "Jersey Shore."
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Feast of the Seven Fishes and Eight Abs

Canceling Vinny Guadagnino and Christmas Eve at the Jersey Shore.
22 Dec 2024 14 min read
Illustration in blue and white: Four gorgeous fat women in lingerie posing together. One has a cane.
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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.
01 Dec 2024 8 min read
Illustration in orange and yellow: A busty housewife in pearls holds up a martini.
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Housewife Luxury Will Never Be Quiet

Get your half-baked class analysis out of my face
24 Nov 2024 6 min read
Illustration in purple, black, and brown: Three characters from "Evil" stare defiantly at the reader.
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.
30 Oct 2024 8 min read
I Missed My Mom. So I Rewatched All Nine Seasons of 'Roseanne.'
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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.
17 Oct 2024 11 min read
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