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Silpa Kovvali

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Silpa Kovvali is a New York-based writer who focuses on social and cultural criticism. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, and The New Republic, amongst others.

Donald Trump, Taco Bowl (Credit: Twitter)

Stuff white people like: Yoga, tacos and pretending the white supremacy that fuels cultural appropriation doesn’t exist

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Donald Trump on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" (NBC)

TV can’t not be political: What Jimmy Fallon’s defenders get wrong about late-night

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Hillary Clinton (AP/Matt Rourke)

How to take “bitch” down: What The New York Times gets right and wrong about the controversial word

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Matt Lauer (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Play the devil’s advocate: Why even “celebrity journalists” should be harder on their subjects

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Natalia Dyer and Joe Keery in "Stranger Things" (Netflix)

Sexual awakening in Hawkins: “Stranger Things” explores the terror and the triviality of adolescence

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LeBron James (AP/Frank Franklin II)

ESPN’s “Undefeated Conversation” about race and violence disproportionately burdens black players

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Amy Schumer (AP/John Salangsang/reductress.com/Salon)

A comedian walks into a “mob”: “Inside Amy Schumer” writer’s rant against antirape culture deserves a backlash

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Ivanka Trump (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Ivanka’s insulating power: What the Trump scion still doesn’t get about sexual harassment

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Michelle Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. (Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich)

The Evolution of Michelle Obama, Convention Speaker

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Shiri Appleby in "UnReal" (Lifetime)

How “UnReal” really went wrong: The reality-TV satire lost its moral high ground

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Stephen Colbert; Jesse Williams (CBS/Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

TV as a conservative safe space: Fragile viewers can’t handle being challenged by their entertainment

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Jonathan Pryce in "Game of Thrones" (HBO)

Cheering the High Sparrow’s death: Why the end of this “Game of Thrones” villain was so satisfying

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Donald Trump, Kim Kardashian (Reuters/Carlo Allegri/Mario Anzuoni/Photo montage by Salon)

The Kim Kardashian exception: Why her empire is constantly questioned—and Donald Trump’s isn’t

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"Odd Mom Out" (Bravo)

The fine line between snark and mean: The biting satire of “Odd Mom Out” in danger of dulling

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Lena Dunham in "Girls," Lauren Graham in "Gilmore Girls"

The 6 most ludicrous myths TV perpetuates about class in America

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"UnREAL" (Lifetime)

“Money. D*ck. Power.”: “Unreal” deconstructs fantasies — and asks what TV looks like with women in charge

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-675946p1.html'>Dmitry Brizhatyuk</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Who is qualified to write about race?

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Donald Trump and Miss Universe, Gabriela Isler, of Venezuela, talk during a news conference, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, in Doral, Fla. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Trump didn’t make Miss Universe degrading: Beauty pageants have been harmful to women since they began

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Medeleine Albright, Taylor Swift, Sheryl Sandberg (Reuters/Adrees Latif/Danny Moloshok/AP/Richard Drew)

This is how “Lean In” feminism evolves: By smashing that “special place in Hell” that keeps us silent

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Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone in "Nina," Tilda Swinton as Ancient One in "Doctor Strange" (Suzanne Tenner/Marvel Studios)

Dear white Hollywood: Here are 3 things you need to hear about your defensiveness on race

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Tilda Swinton as Ancient One in "Doctor Strange" (Marvel Studios)

White isn’t a neutral color: “Doctor Strange,” Tilda Swinton and the “unwinnable” diversity argument

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(AP/John Minchillo)

Teach girls to embrace their inner nerd: Making Silicon Valley look less dorky won’t solve its gender problem

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Melissa Joan Hart in "God's Not Dead 2" (Pureflix)

The bizarro “Inherit the Wind”: Understanding evangelical Christianity’s persecution complex through “God’s Not Dead 2”

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Adrianne Palicki in "Friday Night Lights," Rachel Bilson in "The O.C.," Christina Hendricks in "Mad Men" (NBC/Fox/AMC)

The “bitch” we come to love: Summer’s “O.C.” evolution taught me to appreciate this kind of TV heroine

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