Hear Me Out: Kung Fu Panda Has a Lot to Say About Life, Destiny, and the Corrupting Power of Ego
It's clear that "Kung Fu Panda" contains a multitude of important lessons for children, but it also has themes for adults to parse through and learn from. I adore the Kung Fu Panda movies. I truly do and have never made it
17 Rough Translations from Lana Del Rey’s Instagram Rant
Miss Rona is definitely been driving celebrity white women to be, ahem, more unhinged than usual. Lana Del Rey (aka Karen Del Rey, or Elizabecky) is no different. So, let’s get one thing straight. White women have been white women-ning since
All That Glitters Ain’t Nice: On Tyra Banks, “Niceness”, and Collective Memory
Tyra Banks is facing a retroactive cultural reckoning thanks to audiences removing the veneer of her cultivated image of "niceness" and faux positivity. 2020 has been an interesting year for hindsight discoveries. Like being thrown into a pandemic and finding that
More Queer than Gay, ‘The Half of It’ is Wholly Necessary
‘The Half of It’ explores identity without rigid or explicit definitions that are all too common in queer and Asian media. This article contains light spoilers for Alice Wu’s “The Half of It” By Kim Tran I was terrified of watching The Half
Never Have I Ever…Seen A Show So Casteist and Racist
Kaling's 'Never Have I Ever' is more interested in packaging upper-caste Hindu American identity for the white gaze than she is in authentic storytelling. TW/CW: this article contains spoilers for Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever”, and mentions Islamophobia, anti-Dalitness, anti-Blackness, anti-Semitism,