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**Mild Spoilers Ahead** “What would happen if black people starred in horror films?” That question has been parodied and pondered for quite a while. Luckily for...
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Pop Culture retailer BoxLunch announces eleven shop-in-shop experiences in celebration of their new BoxLunch X Crunchyroll My Hero Academia collection in collaboration with global anime brand...
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HBO’s House of the Dragon has brought millions of Game of Thrones fans back to TV screens around the world – and the successor...
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When describing great experiences with art, I can’t help but reach for the word ‘magical.’ There are moments whose power defy logic, songs that...
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The new exhibition “Art Meets Hollywood” is the museum premiere of Bonnie Lautenberg’s new series of digital collages, 28 diptychs pairing scenes from famous...
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ClexaCon Organizers talk the Whys, Hows, and Evolution of Starting a Convention for LGBT+ Women In Media In case you haven’t heard, the inaugural convention...
Television
Introduction Progress in media representation, while incremental, is generally linear. The Spring Slaughter of 2016 was a humongous step backwards, culling the queer women...
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The magic of naming has been a thematic undercurrent of the fantasy genre since its inception. Names, after all, hold a special power within...
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It’s time to say goodbye to 2016…finally. Thank goodness. Good riddance. I think it’s fair to say that most of us are beaten into...
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It can be no secret that Carrie Fisher meant a lot to people around here, and in geekdom at large. There’s a reason we...
Analysis
Before Hamilton, there was In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s other American musical centered around the predominantly Latinx community of Washington Heights in New York....
Analysis
In July of 2015, Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios published set of videos exploring the kind of young men who participated in Gamergate. This...
Analysis
The Ethics of Storytelling Part 2 (see Part 1, here) We’ve all heard it before, the cry of the anti-critic. It seems like whenever...
Analysis
I must have a really good sense of timing or a terrible, no good one. Jury’s still out here. Either way, I was fortunate...
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My Immortal is celebrating its 10th anniversary and, with it, a milestone in fandom history and fanfiction. Harry Potter is arguably the most fertile...
Television
Kat Barrell Discusses Clexacon, Fandom, the Power of Storytelling, and Diverse Representation in Media At The Fandomentals, we’ve got you covered for all the...