Equality Issues Ellie Kemper, cotillions, and romanticizing the antebellum South Last week, the internet lit up when a tweet about Ellie Kemper, alum of The Office, Bridesmaids, and best known as Kimmy Schmidt, told everyone about the time she was crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty at the Veiled Prophet Ball, held by the Veiled Prophet Organization, in St. By Sarah • Jun 08, 2021 11:00 am
Equality Issues “Just Get Rid of It”: Hollywood’s Accent Problem “I hate mushrooms,” says Alessandro Miro. “Put that in the article,” jokes Andrea Stefancikova. The three of us are all sitting outside in the patio of an Italian restaurant on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive. It’s about seven o’clock on a warm summer day last June, just early enough By Prem • Aug 06, 2020 03:51 pm
Equality Issues Reframing Cancel Culture (This is the latest installment in our Long Read series. For previous entries, please visit the Long Reads archive.) Yesterday morning, Harper’s Magazine published a letter written and signed by 50 public figures including J.K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, Gloria Steinem, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, and so many more. By Prem • Jul 09, 2020 11:20 am
Music Noname, J. Cole, and Toxic Power Dynamics (This is the latest entry to our Long Reads section. For more Long Reads, please visit the Long Reads page.) Last week, through music and tweets, we witnessed what some are calling a rap beef, what others are calling healthy discourse, and what I am calling Black men inserting themselves, By Melayna • Jun 23, 2020 01:25 pm
Equality Issues The Black History of Stonewall (This is the latest installment of our Long Reads series. For more entries, please click here.) TRIGGER WARNING: The following article has detailed descriptions of police violence and abuse, particularly towards LGBTQ+ and Black communities. Picture this. It’s a breezy Friday night in New York City’s Greenwich Village. By Prem • Jun 05, 2020 10:50 am
Long Reads This week in America (Here is the latest installment in our Long Reads series – Sarah’s personal story about being an America living in America right now.) This week in America is happening because last week in America a police officer murdered George Floyd. I have lived in Chicago ten years this summer. During By Sarah • Jun 03, 2020 09:41 am
Top Reads Suga: The Bias-Assassin and Leadership from the Back I don’t think I’ll ever stop being astonished at the creative output of BTS, not just during this pandemic lockdown but for the last seven years since the band debuted in 2013. The albums, the tours, the promotional appearances, the music videos, the multiple reality series, the documentary By Lainey • May 22, 2020 10:08 am
Maple Leaf Is Lilly Singh listening? (This is the latest installment in our Long Reads series. Previous entries can be accessed here). Last Monday, Lilly Singh, late night talk show host, YouTuber, comedian, and relentless cultural appropriator of Caribbean culture dropped a “remake” of dancehall track ,“Badman Forward, Badman Pull Up” by Ding Dong with this By Melayna • May 05, 2020 10:43 am
TV Updates BlackAF (This is the latest entry to our “Long Reads” series – previous essays can be accessed here.) BlackAF debuted on Netflix last Friday. There was already controversy surrounding the show before its release. Created, written, and starring Kenya Barris, this is his first acting project after producing an incredibly stacked resumé By Melayna • Apr 24, 2020 11:42 am
Top Reads BangBang Con, Jungkook, Obama, and Simone Biles This past weekend, BTS streamed almost 24 hours of past concert and fan club performance footage on YouTube for an event they called BangBang Con, meant to be an alternative to their Map of the Soul: 7 tour which was supposed to have kicked off this month. BangBang Con generated By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 02:31 pm
Long Reads Doing #AloneTogether alone (This is the latest entry in our “Long Reads” list. Previous posts can be found here.) Last week, Lainey mentioned quarantining with a partner and how, no matter how strong and good the relationship, being with someone constantly, literally constantly, can be a lot. The other side of the coin, By Sarah • Apr 08, 2020 03:00 pm
Equality Issues Who created Kanye West? (Lainey: as mentioned a couple of weeks ago, as we approach the launch of the new look for our site, we are adding a “Long Reads” section; the first entry was Duana’s essay about the 30th anniversary of Pretty Woman, arguing that Julia Roberts’s Vivian Ward is a By Melayna • Apr 03, 2020 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pretty Woman: a Feminist Icon on film Oh, yo. Oh, yo. Catch this… Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Pretty Woman! If you, like me, were forever changed and shaped by this film, then I wish you a happy anniversary, and apologies that we can no longer deny the march of time. Although given By Duana • Mar 23, 2020 12:19 pm
