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Chappel Roan and Tim Walz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Goodbye, brat summer. Hello, demure fall

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Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko and Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne in "Shogun" (Katie Yu/FX)

From “Shogun” to “Dune,” Hollywood is now discrediting the white savior

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix)

“Avatar: The Last Airbender’s” conflicted history of racial evolution doesn’t end here

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Stanley 1913, Lululemon, Coach, and Kate Spade logos, over Chinese lanterns at a temple on Lunar New Years Eve (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The cruel joke of cashing in on Lunar New Year

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Autumn Girlie and Stanley Cups (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of Stanley/Getty Images)

Why white girls love Stanley cups

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Karl Urban as Billy Butcher and Antony Starr as Homelander in "The Boys" (Prime Video)

Why cynical superhero stories, not “The Marvels,” have power

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Cailee Spaeny in "Priscilla" (A24)

The real story of grooming that “Priscilla” leaves out

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Joe Jonas, Justin Timberlake and Johnny Depp (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Men wield the media against women. Why do we keep letting them?

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Bottoms | Joy Ride | The Sex Lives of College Girls (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/HBO Max/Orion Pictures/Lionsgate)

Women are ferally horny, according to TV and movies. Then why are they not having sex?

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Squid Game: The Challenge (Pete Dadds/Netflix)

From “Parasite” to “Squid Game,” America of course exploited South Korea’s anti-capitalist content

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Margot Robbie as Barbie in "Barbie" (Warner Bros.)

From “Barbie Girl” to Girl Dinner and beyond: What’s behind our obsession with the girl-ish label

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Margot Robbie in "Barbie" (Warner Bros.)

Barbie has become an asexual icon, and we should all learn from her

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"Creamerie" stars J.J. Fong, Perlina Lau, Ally Xue and Jay Ryan (Matt Klitscher/Flat3 Productions)

After a dystopian “mandemic,” the wacky “Creamerie” pokes at the remaining “inequities among women”

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Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (Paramount Pictures & Skydance)

Tom Cruise, our messy messiah of movies

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Stephanie Hsu as Kat, Sherry Cola as Lolo, Ashley Park as Audrey and Sabrina Wu as Deadeye in "Joy Ride" (Ed Araquel/Lionsgate)

“Nudity representation matters”: From horny elders to BTS Army, “Joy Ride” rewrites who gets seen

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Sabrina Wu, Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Stephanie Hsu in "Joy Ride" (Ed Araquel/Lionsgate)

“Joy Ride” delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women

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Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu in "The Bear" (Frank Ockenfels/FX)

On “The Bear,” Sydney’s Chicago-wide smorgasbord liberates women from food guilt and girlbosses

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is beyond subtitles — and the white gaze

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Taylor Swift and Ice Spice perform onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at MetLife Stadium on May 26, 2023 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Kevin Mazur/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

Taylor Swift and the ways white women exploit allyship

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Sophie Nélisse teenage Shauna in a "Yellowjackets" fantasy flashback (Showtime)

“Yellowjackets”: Eat or be eaten? It’s called being a team player

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