I tried to see through the rainbow as nothing more than a halfhearted month-long marketing ploy. However, I could not help but feel that there is an intrinsic value in rainbow logos and storefronts that many critics take for granted.
For criticisms of [the Recording Academy] to actuate change, consumers and artists must reprimand it in languages it speaks: money, time and attention.
The rise of these “woke” critics has created a new, important onus on consumers of contemporary media. With the upsurge of individuals who excoriate diverse content comes the increased necessity for viewers who can both identify unfair criticism and prevent themselves from becoming discriminatory consumers of POC media.
“Women Take the Floor” candidly illustrates the blurred line between issues of feminist idealism, feminist pragmatism, and a restlessness to finally transcend the weight of the struggle. It doesn’t offer any easy answers, but rather illuminates a constant tension between various realities, possibilities and fantasies.
"Patriotic education” claims to highlight our nation’s bedrock values and commemorate American progress, but it runs the pernicious risk of celebrating unfulfilled accomplishments and undermining ongoing injustice.
Though ketamine was originally used as a sedative and later well-known for being a party drug, recent research heralded its use as a therapeutic for suicidality.
Issues involving information dissemination are constant across all health crises, and COVID-19 is no exception. The more that we understand about how scientific information has been historically communicated, the better we can combat vaccine hesitancy today and answer the question: who, or what, is to blame for vaccine hesitancy, if anything?
Throughout her novel, Rooney manages to successfully highlight the many problems that ail our society without feeling compelled to resolve them for the readers. This helps her keep her readers engrossed in the narrative and at the same time imbue them with a sense of agency to assess these problems on their own.
The impeachment hearing which culminated in Trump’s acquittal was just the latest in a string of incidents proving that, for Republicans, there is no limit to partisan loyalty.
Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe's new book "Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis" gets to the heart of what’s keeping the policies and systems we need to achieve a just and sustainable future from coming into place.
