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Rachel Berry, Diane Nguyen, and Me: My Journey Through Feminist Television to Find Representation, Identity, and More
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(TV)
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... my horizons when it comes to seeing and understanding female stories. It began with Glee, my favorite show as a teenager – a 2009 coming-of-age musical dramedy that broke barriers on how stories of sexual, ...
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Created on 25 February 2022
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Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
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(Arts)
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... Elsie and Frances were in a state of “high glee” when they returned in less than an hour, and asked Mr. Wright to develop the plate. Elsie followed her father into the darkroom under the stairs, while ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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"It Does Revenge In A Small Way": Violet Kupersmith On Ghosts, Trauma, And Her New Novel, "Build Your House Around My Bod
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(Books)
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... just feel like a dog [laughs]. I’m Belly at the end, like running around gleeful in a body, trying to eat what I can. I think I’m a cross between Belly and the Fortune Teller.
Who would you say your ...
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Created on 09 August 2021
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6 Iconic LGBTQ+ Comedians To Laugh With This Pride Month
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(Entertainment)
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... in all caps, that THEY’VE NEVER HEARD OF ME…I can’t help but feel worried for them,” she remarks gleefully.
2. Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito possesses an infectious ability to lay bare life ...
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Created on 10 June 2021
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Rapper Jesswar Celebrates Female Empowerment With New Music Video
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(Music)
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... M.M.A. fight between two women with the nonchalance of a Roman emperor. There is a fervor unfolding as slow-motion shots of the fight alternate with images of the crowd shouting with glee as each blow ...
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Created on 23 December 2020
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What’s So Funny? Pop Culture Still Doesn’t Know How To Handle Bulimia
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(Entertainment)
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... according to the media, it’s either funny, or it’s simply feminine vanity in its purest form.
Time and again, bulimia jibes are gleefully tossed around in the catty dialogue of popular girls in teen ...
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Created on 17 September 2020
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How These Women Cartoonists Shaped the Flapper Image in the Roaring ’20s
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(Arts)
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... social and sexual norms, and gleefully made art documenting their glamorous lives. But while men like F. Scott Fitzgerald are known for chronicling the lives of flappers in print, there was another category ...
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Created on 10 August 2020
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Hinds Are Back With A Renewed Energy On "The Prettiest Curse
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(Music)
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... and nuisances (“Can I tell you something/About you and your band?”) with their signature ramshackle group vocals turned to a gleeful 11. Much of The Prettiest Curse is fueled by heavy-duty guitar and drum ...
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Created on 25 June 2020
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Alison Roman, Chrissy Teigen, and The Cool Girl Trap
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(Entertainment)
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... Alison Roman had said. But the backlash seemed a little too maniacally gleeful, with a few too many people claiming they’ve been hating Alison Roman all along (where have you been this whole time?) or ...
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Created on 11 May 2020
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Women Bring Hitchcock into the 21st Century in HBO’s Rom-Com Thriller "Run
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(TV)
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... Richardson (Merritt Wever), a wife and mother, and Billy Johnson (Domhnall Gleeson), a self-help guru. When they were in college, they made a pact, a spin on the if-we’re-not-married-by-40-we’ll-marry-each-other ...
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Created on 01 May 2020
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A Feminist Report From The U.S.-Mexico Border
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(Feminism)
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“Facebook!” she says gleefully.
I feel like an idiot. Somehow I’d assumed that this was not a thing that existed in Honduras. She pulls up her profile on my phone. I see photos of her kids, her family, ...
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Created on 12 December 2019
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Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy, And Elisabeth Moss Show Us What Real Mobsters Look Like In 'The Kitchen' Traile
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(Entertainment)
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... darlings alike, the film stars Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Spy), Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Her Smell), Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, ...
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Created on 31 May 2019
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Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries Feed Our Grrrl Gang Cravings
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(Music)
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... fully formed feminists gleefully bashing against the status quo with drumsticks, bass guitar—really, anything covered in sprinkles or glitter. Their previous EP releases, although less polished, reveal ...
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Created on 14 February 2019
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Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights
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(Feminism)
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... elderly than she really was. She recalled with glee how, at one railroad strike stopped by federal intervention, she “slipped through the ranks” of troops who saw her as “just an old woman going to a missionary ...
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Created on 30 January 2019
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Rashida Tlaib And Uncivil Disobedience
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(Feminism)
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“We’re going to impeach the motherfucker!”
In gleeful disbelief, I read these words aloud to my roommate on January 3, just hours after the members of the 116th Congress, the most diverse in America’s ...
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Created on 14 January 2019
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"The New Romantic": Jessica Barden Shines Despite A Slight Scrip
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(Movies)
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... slips out in the most unexpected of moments—her immature apple-cheeked flash of glee at the idea of getting presents from Ian (who doesn’t like to write checks), or her declaration that she feels “cartilage-piercing ...
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Created on 03 January 2019
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Feminist Comic Artist Julie Doucet Is Back With A Re-Release Of "Dirty Plotte": BUST Intervie
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(Books)
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... Plotte: A sleazy reader named Steve sends in an unsolicited nude photo, declaring, "My body belongs to you." Doucet takes this literally, devoting an entire gleeful strip to mutilating poor Steve's corpse ...
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Created on 23 October 2018
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Embrace '90s Nostalgia This Halloween With These TV Character Costumes
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(Style)
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... glee in her criminal misdeeds. Along with her partner Boris Badenov, they report to Fearless Leader and get into shenanigans with Rocky and Bulwinkle. A caricature of a "femme fatale," hence her last name, ...
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Created on 15 October 2018
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Busy Philipps Discusses Her #MeToo Experience And Her Mission To Take Down The Patriarchy In BUST Exclusive Interview
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(Feminism)
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... and drops Valley girl–accented f-bombs with gleeful regularity. But most of all, she’s a boss. The actor-turned-internet celebrity is a woman who knows what she wants, whether it’s finding the fad toy ...
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Created on 09 October 2018
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A Person's Right To Pleasur
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(Feminism)
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... bodily self sovereignty, we will create a society in which we are all free to enjoy our bodies and gleefully pursue lives full of happiness and of pleasure.
Top photo courtesy the author
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Created on 27 September 2018