Despite the fact that Latinx communities also suffer disproportionate levels of violence and arrests at the hands of the police, their silence and lack of staunch support for the Black Lives Matter movement is deafening.
For many girls, our media’s one-note portrayal of autism invalidates individual experiences. As long as autism is predominantly represented through stereotypes, only a handful of individuals on the spectrum will benefit.
For many girls, our media’s one-note portrayal of autism invalidates individual experiences. As long as autism is predominantly represented through stereotypes, only a handful of individuals on the spectrum will benefit.
Sen. Ed Markey’s air of authenticity — alongside the sneakers, the memes, and the legislative record — is drawing young people to campaign for Markey with a never-before-seen level of enthusiasm and creativity.
ATLA’s childlike ideal shows us a model for returning to our original enlightenment. It shows us that we can be less like an arrow, and more like Sokka’s boomerang — we can finally embark home, to the child hero already waiting within us.
Spongebob serves paradoxically as a figure of queer disruption, an embrace of radical love and queered innocence, even in its commodified stat – not because of its independence from its means of production, but the consciousness of its fantasies.
While an emphasis on “White privilege” is certainly warranted, it egregiously neglects another facet of the conversation surrounding demographic entitlement: privilege in financially secure diverse communities and the blissful oblivion of first and second-generation immigrants.
TikTok is fun, but the fun only veneers deeper considerations we’ll have to make as we accept that blend of public and private as fixtures in our daily lives. We will need to examine whether we want the perfected convenience of algorithmically-curated content, or whether it’s possible to reward breaking out of our bubbles.
American culture likes to identify its heroes and villains; Avatar the Last Airbender creators Koniezko and DiMartino are neither. For me, they are not “canceled.” But contrary to public worship, their work bears harm too.
