Isabel Fall’s story has been held up as an example of “cancel culture run amok.”
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A Cultural History of Racial Fraud
What does it mean to perform race for a white audience?
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Screen Memories
“Screenshots are also proof of memory — proof that I was there, online at a moment in time.”
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How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted
“The culture of negation inspires a taste for nothingness and glorifies numbness.”
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My Mommies and Me
Alexandra Tanner’s essay is a hilarious and dark look into the lives of Mormon mommy bloggers on Instagram.
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Quarantine Brain
“Nothing made sense this year — unless you were on the internet.”
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Trevor Noah Is Still Trying to Explain America to Itself. It’s Getting Harder.
For GQ, Wesley Lowery interviews Daily Show host Trevor Noah.
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The Death and Life of the Greatest American City
“The city feels simultaneously attacked, abandoned, and bereft of competent leadership. It also feels very, very alive.” In an essay at GEN, Glynnis MacNicol explores New York City’s #NoFilter era.
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The Original Renegade
A 14-year-old ninth grader from the Atlanta suburbs created a dance called The Renegade that exploded on communities like TikTok. The only problem is that Harmon saw her creation take on a life of its own without any acknowledgement.
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Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas
“Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”