As it turns out, no amount of social niceties will change the fact that in almost 100 years, the magazine has published only four book reviews by Black women.
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Yes, the main characters have great chemistry and that one song is super catchy, but is that enough to make up for the rampant pro-military messaging in 'Purple Hearts'? Uh, no.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in August 2022, including Never Have I Ever’s third season and the premieres of The Bear, Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, A League of Their Own and Drag Race Philippines.
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The Hulu docuseries illuminates the dark side of Victoria's Secret's rise to retail dominance, but it's as much about slimy marketing as it is about predatory men
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The romance novelist offers insight into the appeal of audiobooks, choosing the right narrator and her new book, The Comeback
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Kim Kardashian looks pretty different these days—lighter skin, blonde hair, noticeably thinner. But while I’ve been thinking about this new aesthetic as a return to whiteness, it might actually be more complicated than that.
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Between Bette Midler and E. Jean Carroll, I am all out of patience for privileged white women who don’t understand the concept of intersectionality.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in July 2022, including Stranger Things 4, Volume 2, The Gray Man, Persuasion, Canada’s Drag Race and Scarborough.
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A close reading of Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul.” Or, four loosely related thoughts on house music, race and capitalism. (Oh, and also Drake.)
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Graham is suing Bell Media for gender discrimination in part because a Black man was promoted to a role she thought was hers.
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Joel Kim Booster’s Pride and Prejudice-inspired rom-com celebrates (and subverts) rom-com tropes to tell a story that’s both sweet and sharp. For one white journalist, that was a problem.
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Five years ago, #MeToo, Tarana Burke’s feminist movement went viral, ushering in an era of accountability for predatory men. The Depp/Heard verdict proves just how short-lived that era was.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in June 2022, including P-Valley, Fire Island, Ms. Marvel, season 2 of Only Murders in the Building and Jennifer Lopez’s mid-career documentary, Halftime.
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The police in Uvalde, Texas had all the resources Republicans say they need to prevent a mass shooting—but 19 children and their teachers still died in a massacre at Robb Elementary School this week.
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Leaked footage of Jesse Williams performing a nude scene on Broadway was received *very* differently from Britney Spears’ latest photo dump of nude photos on Instagram—which perfectly illustrates the gendered ways we think about nudity, desirability and privacy.
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It's not just misogynistic and inaccurate to believe people who care about 'superficial' things like fashion don't also care about reproductive rights. It's also short-sighted
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There's no simple, tidy narrative here—but that's not stopping the internet from trying to create one.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in May 2022, including Stranger Things 4: Volume 1, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, The Matrix Resurrections and Conversations With Friends.
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The pop star recently posted photos where she literally looked Asian. It wasn't the first time she's taken aesthetic inspiration from another ethnicity’s physical features.
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Five years after Pepsi’s infamous Live for Now ad, companies have learned to be much savvier when incorporating social movements in their marketing strategies. But how much has really changed?
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