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06/05/201706/05/2017

Featured/Television

How “Master of None” Models the Good White Ally

I just finished watching season 2 of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None, which left me low key speechless at the end. More on that later. What caught my attention throughout the season was

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01/26/201703/22/2017

What Aziz Ansari got Right in his SNL Monologue

Last Saturday, on the first full day of the new Trump administration, actor and comedian Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live. His opening monologue was not shy about the recent political climate. Ansari made funny and strangely apt comparisons between

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06/05/201706/05/2017

Featured/Television

How “Master of None” Models the Good White Ally

I just finished watching season 2 of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None, which left me low key speechless at the end. More on

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01/26/201703/22/2017

Featured/Meta/Television

What Aziz Ansari got Right in his SNL Monologue

Last Saturday, on the first full day of the new Trump administration, actor and comedian Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live. His

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Honesty and Love in “Midnight Cowboy”

This week, Movie Monday found me watching Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 film-that-couldn’t, pulled off miraculously by director John Schlesinger. Midnight Cowboy is a spectacular blip

The One Stereotype “Moana” Doesn’t Break

Disney has a few long-standing traditions for its princess movies, and Moana breaks nearly all of them. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) isn’t white, isn’t

What Is It About The Godfather?: Reconciling The “Woman” in Old Movies

Even after 45 years, The Godfather is a movie that transcends criticism. Sure, back in the day, writers liked to pretend that

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