Culture
‘The White Lotus’ (HBO) and ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ (Hulu): Hot tub hegemony!
September 3, 2021Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) is troubled. She carries around her mother’s ashes searching for the perfect place to scatter them. More importantly, she also searches for love. Newlywed Shane Patton’s (Jake Lacy) search is for respect,...
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‘Fearing the Black Body’ uses history to dismantle fat phobia, health inequality
September 2, 2021Strings does a fine job of collecting all of this material for the reader to take in, but her voice gets lost in all the facts and data. At times, 'Fearing the Black Body' reads like...
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‘The Hill We Climb’: A new music film of Amanda Gorman’s poem
August 31, 2021The piece is inspired by and is set to the poem of the same name by American poet and activist Amanda Gorman, which she powerfully recited at the presidential inauguration in January 2021.
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‘Morals of the Market’: When human rights cover for neoliberal hegemony
August 30, 2021It's a timely book, as shown by the escalating accusations between the U.S. and Chinese governments over what constitutes human rights.
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‘Civil War’: An American contest that has never come to an end
August 27, 2021That is one of the main takeaways from this project: Even historical fact has a hard time dislodging hardened, though discredited opinion.
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