What the second season does, in a slow-burn, warm-glow kind-of-way, is show viewers that an Indian girl, just like any other girl, can learn to love and forgive herself and forgive others. That she can grow, make mistakes, and emerge better and stronger from the mess. That making mistakes and even becoming a bit unhinged are strengths in and of themselves.
Time and again, the disparate attention paid to tragedies in the Global North and Global South reveal underlying inequities and injustices, ones which we must unlearn.
What truly is Generation Z? Who are we? What do we stand for? What is our role in the context of all our preceding generations? In spite of accusations of privilege and laziness, Gen Z is poised and armed with unique tools to have a positive and lasting influence on the world.
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?
