*This piece came in second place for a Los Angeles Press Club for Best Commentary/Analysis of TV/Film Across All Platforms (Print, Online, TV and Radio) in 202...
Rebecca Sugar’s Cartoon Network animated series Steven Universe has been a source of progressive delight for both children and adults since 2013. A fantastical...
Always just as fast with the punchline as it is with the gut-punch, BoJack Horseman was never afraid to bring the tone down to truly marvel at the dreadfulness of its lead....
This essay was originally published at The Muse on Jezebel on December 2, 2019. Republished with permission.
In Netflix’s See You Yesterday, a young g...
As the United States grapples with its relationship to the police, Hollywood has tried to reflect that struggle through storytelling. Two texts, in particular ...
Is there anything so dissociative as a mirror? That face that stares back at us is somehow neither what we see, nor what people see when they look at us. It’s ...
It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl. Boy dumps girl. Girl follows boy to Harvard Law School and bests him at every turn. Such is the story of one Elle W...
Like a generation of millennial women, I deeply identify with Andrea Sachs. The plucky heroine of The Devil Wears Prada endured a journey many of us know well;...
This essay was originally published at The Muse on Jezebel on November 6, 2019. Republished with permission.
Global income inequality has been on a steady r...
