Culture February 27, 2021
Feminist writer and editor Koa Beck
Koa Beck’s new book examines how white feminism’s commodification and systematic exclusions are rooted in a knotted history of racism.
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Film July 13, 2019
Booksmart
A refreshing and often groundbreaking portrayal of female adolescence, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart deserves to be a classic, despite its slow start at the box office.
Film November 02, 2019
Blinded by the Light
In Blinded by the Light, director Gurinder Chadha critiques British politics and shows the tension between racial and national identity in a coming-of-age story that celebrates Bruce Springsteen’s music.
Culture December 01, 2018
Boots Riley’s latest coup
Boots Riley has turned from music to film to raise consciousness of the need for collective struggle against capitalism, as seen in Sorry to Bother You, his satire set in the dispiriting world of telemarketing. “Unless you engage in collective class struggle, you’re not making things better. You’re not making things better by making some art that exposes the way things are. You’re not making things better by not buying Starbucks and buying this other thing instead. The way you make things better is by being involved in class struggle, which is kept out of so many films. Any rebellion, especially class struggle, is just not in that world.”
