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      May 10, 2019
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      May 2, 2019
    • Review: ‘Giant Little Ones’ Considers the Contradictions of Coming-of-Age with Tenderness

      April 18, 2019
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      June 22, 2019
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      June 21, 2019
    • ‘Booksmart’: Am I Failing or Am I Misdefining Success?

      June 19, 2019
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    • Coping with Catcalling: An Interview with ‘Street Series’ Co-Creator Brittany Rae Robinson

      June 3, 2019
    • “Weirdos have got to stick together”: A Conversation with Spooky B Films Co-Founders Emily Gagne and Josh Korngut

      May 30, 2019
    • Robin Swicord on 1994’s ‘Little Women,’ Greta Gerwig’s Remake, and her Upcoming Event at TIFF

      May 3, 2019
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    • 8 Female Characters Who’ve Changed My Definition of Strength

      December 10, 2018
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      December 3, 2018
    • 5 Lessons I Learned Covering My First Film Festival

      November 14, 2018
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    • Review: Warriors of Love in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’

      March 24, 2018
    • ‘Black Mirror’ Tells A Cautionary Tale About the Role of Technology in Our Relationships

      March 22, 2018
    • Hearts In Their Eyes: Fear of Feminism in ‘Riverdale’

      March 20, 2018
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The Wolf and the Lamb: On Romance, Transformation, and the Moon in ‘Moonstruck’

Liz HewJune 22, 2019

How ‘Paddington’ Helped Me Get My Shit Together

Sara ClementsJune 21, 2019

‘Booksmart’: Am I Failing or Am I Misdefining Success?

Ramna SafeerJune 19, 2019

How Nasty Women Stole the Pop Culture Spotlight

Michaela BartonJanuary 17, 2019
Nasty woman (epithet): A woman who intimidates men by simply existing. A woman who does not fit the restrictions set for them by men. A woman who is more than ...
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Who Has the Power?: Representing Queer Women in ‘Killing Eve’

Cody CorrallJanuary 16, 2019
If you’re a queer woman in a television series, odds are that you’ll be killed by the series finale. In 2017, a study done by LGBT Fans Deserve Better found th...
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‘The Secret Garden’ and Healing from Grief Through Fantasy

Jenna KalishmanJanuary 9, 2019
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”– Frances Hodgson Burnett, ‘The Secret Garden’ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgso...
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Things Fall Apart to Come Together: Joan Didion and the Power of Grief

Ramna SafeerDecember 22, 2018
In my head, she’s just Joan. Having underlined and highlighted until my copies of her books grew unrecognizable, and now having seen her speak to the camera wit...
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‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ and the Healing Nature of LGBTQ+ Friendship

Megan ChristopherDecember 21, 2018
I am sat alone, knees to my chest, my eyes tracing the screen before me. Cameron Post, her hair choppily cut in the style of so many of my lesbian friends, lean...
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Waking the Witch: The Magic of Harnessing Feminine Power in ‘The Craft’

Liz HewDecember 20, 2018
“Now is the time, this is the hour. Ours is the magic, ours is the power.” Surrounded by the steady hum of crickets and the trill of birdsong, four teenaged gi...
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“Christ, It’s a Movement”: Art and Power in ‘Big Eyes,’ ‘Colette,’ and ‘The Wife’

Mary BoltonDecember 18, 2018
Something that gets de-emphasized in discussions about Cynthia Lennon, John Lennon’s first wife, is that she was an artist. (Perhaps the only charming thing lef...
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‘White Reindeer’: A Blue Christmas from a Female Perspective

Shaunna QuinDecember 18, 2018
Men behaving badly at Christmastime has been canon since Ebenezer Scrooge. Bad Santa drinks, swears, and fucks, the bros in The Night Before experience a wild, ...
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‘Killing Eve’ and the Rise of the Likeable Antagonist

Paige KiserDecember 17, 2018
There are several factors that set BBC America’s Killing Eve apart from other currently running shows. The most notable is arguably the inclusion of the charact...
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Tenderness Amidst Chaos: How ‘Mandy’ Rejects Violent Masculine Power

Kat MildnerDecember 17, 2018
“The girl burst out laughing. She knew she was nobody’s meat.” – Angela Carter, ‘The Company of Wolves’ A meditation on grief disguised as a revenge thriller-c...
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