feminism

So The Academy Clearly Didn’t Watch Barbie

So The Academy Clearly Didn’t Watch Barbie

Every year, Awards Season is special for one reason: we all come together in outrage against a very specific group of voters, and publicly shame them until we grow bored. The Golden Globes and Emmys are great predictors of who will be ultimately nominated for an Oscar…but this year, it appears that the Academy stopped […]

How "The Queen's Gambit" Makes Jolene the Black Girl Savior

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“You’re all a bunch of f**king c*cksuckers!” That’s how we’re introduced to Jolene, a Black girl living at Methuen Home where Beth—the main character—is taken after surviving the car crash that killed her mother. She doesn’t get nearly enough attention in The Queen’s Gambit, appearing only in the first two and last two episodes to […]