Watch List: 50+ Shows and Movies to Stream in November 2023

Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu Canada, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in November 2023, including The Velveteen Rabbit, the fifth season of Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays, Netflix’s Family Switch, the holiday rom-com Ex-Mas and the season 3 premiere of Sort Of.

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Guest Post: Russ Martin on How Britney Spears Is Finally Taking Control of Her Own Story

In her new memoir, 'The Woman in Me,' Spears “opens up, but doesn’t linger,” writes Russ Martin. Nor is she supporting the book’s release with the type of promotional roll-out we’ve become used to from other celebrity authors. That’s her prerogative.

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What If We *Didn’t* Resort to Anti-Intellectualism At This Exact Moment in Time?

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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It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Acknowledge That Palestinian Lives Have Value, Too

Media, celebrities and politicians are rightfully mourning the Israeli civilians who have been killed by Hamas militants. Why are so few people extending the same compassion to Palestinian civilians?

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Club Friday Q&A: Lisa Whittington-Hill on How Pop Culture is Failing Women

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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When Conservative Politicians Tacitly Supported the 1 Million March 4 Kids ‘Protests,’ They Were Endorsing Transphobia

Pierre Poilievre instructed his MPs not to post on social media or respond to journalists’ questions about the 1 Million March 4 Children, a ‘parents’ rights’ protest that is pushing for schools to enact policies that will make them unsafe for trans and gender non-conforming kids.

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis Aren’t Even A Little Bit Sorry

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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How Joe Jonas Became My Least Favourite Celebrity In One Easy Step

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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Watch List: 50+ Shows and Movies to Stream in September 2023

Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu Canada, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in September 2023, including The Super Models, the at-home premiere of The Little Mermaid, the first season of Gen V, the final season of Sex Education, CBC’s newest docuseries Telling Our Story.

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Phrenology, Prohibition, the Hays Code—What’s the Deal With Gen Z’s Weird Conservative Streak?

Racist pseudoscience seems pretty opposite to Gen Z’s famously left-leaning politics. And it is! Here’s what’s really behind these TikTok trends and social media discourses.

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I Didn’t Know How Much I Needed to See Different Ways of Grieving Until I Watched 'The Summer I Turned Pretty'

After losing my dad as a teen, I know there are no cookie cutter experiences of grief—but often in pop culture, the way we mourn is portrayed as simple and linear. That’s why it means so much to see this teen romance get grief so right. 

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On Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary, We Have to Talk About Tory Lanez, Megan Thee Stallion and Misogyny

Today is hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, and earlier this week, Brampton mans Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion. We should definitely consider how those two things relate to one another.

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