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  • What the Most Iconic Female Leads of Film and TV of Each Decade Taught Me About Strength

    When I was younger, strength looked like silence. Stoicism. Suffering without complaint. That’s what I was taught—in school, in church, in my conservative hometown. But as a queer, biracial kid trying to survive West Texas with only basic cable and a prayer (well, a figurative prayer—I’m an atheist, after all), I found a very different

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  • The Power of Grassroots Organizing in Political Change

    You ever notice how the loudest voices in politics don’t always come from podiums, boardrooms, or blue-check Twitter accounts? Sometimes, they come from the folding chairs in a church basement. Or the back of a taco truck. Or a text thread of five pissed-off moms who’ve had enough of book bans and bad school lunches.

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  • Wakanda Forever and the Weight of a Legacy: A Reflection on Black Panther 1 & 2

    Some movies entertain you. Others change you. Black Panther did both. When it hit theaters in 2018, I knew it would be big. Marvel doesn’t really do small. But what I wasn’t prepared for was the seismic cultural shift it would create, the emotional gut punch it would deliver, or the tears I’d cry five

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  • The Joys of a Bad Movie: A Masterclass in Unintentional Comedy

    Let’s be honest: there are few things more satisfying than a truly terrible movie. Not “meh” movies—the bland, uninspired, forgettable kind that evaporate from your mind the moment the credits roll—but bad movies. The ones that swing for the cinematic fences and miss so hard they knock over the popcorn machine. I’m talking about films

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  • My Love-Hate Relationship with the Gaming Community (And Why I Stay)

    I’ve been a gamer longer than I’ve had a driver’s license, and certainly longer than I’ve had a healthy sense of self-worth. I’ve sunk hundreds—okay, thousands—of hours into leveling up, collecting loot, dying dramatically, and respawning just to die again. Gaming has been my escape, my therapy, my joy, and occasionally, my rage-fueled blood pressure

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  • Why Every Online Review Is a Micro-Drama (and I’m the Critic)

    There is no battlefield more chaotic, more charged, and more unintentionally hilarious than the comment section of an online review. I’m not talking about Rotten Tomatoes or even Yelp’s greatest hits. I mean the ones on Amazon, Google, and TripAdvisor. The ones that read like diary entries written during a nervous breakdown or an audition

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