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‘We Deserve So Much More Than Police, Prisons, and Jails’: Scalawag Takes On Emmy-Winning Television

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 15, 2022October 21, 2022

We recommend these incisive essays on Abbott Elementary, The White Lotus, and The Dropout in Scalawag’s series on pop culture and justice.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Youn Yuh-jung Comes to America

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 25, 2021January 25, 2023

“On the set of Minari, she was an old Korean lady.” E. Alex Jung interviews Oscar nominee Youn Yuh-jung.

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Mr. Miyagi Taught Me About Anti-Asian Racism in America

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 23, 2021October 19, 2022

In The Karate Kid franchise, writes Beth Nguyen, “Mr. Miyagi is the perpetual foreigner who exists to serve the whiteness that surrounds him.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Dear IU, Our Bodies Are Fine

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I knew my body wasn’t ‘right’; it didn’t look like the bodies of the K-pop idols and Korean actresses I grew up admiring.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Pop Culture Portrays OCD as a Blessing. It’s Not.

by Krista Stevens March 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“The Wall Street Journal recently used the headline ‘We All Need OCD Now’ for an article on COVID-19 … Finally, my debilitating mental illness has a timely hook!”

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

What If This Is It: Will Huey Lewis Sing Again?

by Krista Stevens February 7, 2020October 19, 2022

‘The music went away slowly and then all at once. So what if it never comes back? “I haven’t allowed myself to go there yet,” Huey says, worry in his voice.’

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

What I Did for (Strange) Love

by Laura Bond January 9, 2020October 20, 2022

As a teen, Laura Bond went all out to meet Depeche Mode — and to hang onto her best friend.

Posted inStory

Still Waters

by Soraya Roberts December 20, 2019December 30, 2022

The muted response to Todd Haynes’s “Dark Waters” is depressingly similar to our culture’s muted response to climate change

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

The World’s Tallest Dwarf

by Sara Fredman November 8, 2019January 13, 2023

Late capitalism gets an antihero show.

Posted inBooks, Culture, Story

Lindy West is Preaching to the Choir

by Sara Fredman November 5, 2019January 13, 2023

Sara Fredman talks to author Lindy West on women and likability, the evolution of pop culture, and navigating conversations in a complex, messy world. 

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