The picks in the fourth annual Friday Things holiday gift guide take inspiration from the most memorable pop culture moments of 2024, from the Wicked press tour to Kendrick Lamar’s hater energy to Chappell Roan’s pop supremacy.
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It is, however, a great lens to think about rape culture, celebrity and complicity.
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It’s fair to feel angry that so many celebrities only now have something to say about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but I’m not sure it’s useful.
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After four years of avoiding the spotlight, the actor walked the red carpet at Cannes last week like he *hadn't* been accused of horrific violence by his ex, FKA Twigs. Wtf?
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Why is it so difficult for women to identify their collective Roman Empire? Feminist theory can help provide an answer.
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The model/influencer’s soft-life content strategy holds huge appeal for young women—and that’s kind of the problem
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Don’t mind me, I’m just over here feeling kinda triggered by all the discourse over Victoria Monét’s ‘long overdue success’
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Here’s something interesting/infuriating about most of the coverage I’ve seen of Israel’s allegations against the UNRWA: it often doesn’t even mention whether they were credible or not.
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Dozens of Palestinian journalists have been killed by IDF airstrikes since Oct. 7. How come so many of my colleagues have nothing to say?
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From Britney to Bey, here are my fave culture critics' thoughts on this year in pop culture.
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From Jonathan Majors to Taylor Swift, here are the biggest celebrity stories that I *didn’t* write a newsletter on. (Though you know I had opinions.)
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This week, New York magazine critic Angelica Jade Bastién published a harsh (but, I think, fair) critique of Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, prompting literal days of discourse about fandom and art criticism. Here’s what I haven’t seen anyone talk about.
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The picks in the fourth annual Friday Things holiday gift guide take inspiration from the most memorable pop culture moments of 2023, from Taylor Swift and Sophie Turner’s friendship to Barbie’s box office domination to Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour.
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Not the most fun topic for a listicle, I know. But it’s necessary to reflect on the ways media outlets are failing not only audiences, but themselves, in their coverage of Israel’s ongoing occupation of Gaza.
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I admit it: I thought the people calling out all the ‘girl’ trends on TikTok were being a bit oversensitive. But it turns out I have a hard limit, and it’s making “hey girlypops” videos about the ongoing apartheid of Palestinians.
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A journalist and author of the upcoming book of essays, argues that, despite conventional wisdom saying things are better now, pop cultural representations of women haven't actually improved
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The stabbing death of 15-year-old Elianne Andam by a 17-year-old boy has sparked important conversations about the manosphere, and how it’s instructing boys and young men on the finer points of misogyny.
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Their character letters for Danny Masterson has sparked serious outrage—but this might be a more complicated conversation that it seems
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It must be 1963 up in here, because the Jonas Brother who’s also in DNCE just filed for divorce from his wife of four years, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner, and immediately began leaking stories about how she’s a bad mom.
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And why moving away from the era of centralized internet might actually help defang stan culture
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