Louie Dean Valencia chats with Friday Things about his upcoming class, "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity," and why celebrities are such a great lens to explore political ideas.
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True crime was already popular when âSerialâ premiered in 2014, but the podcast definitely helped the genre go mainstream. Unfortunately, some of the most notable post-Serial shows and podcasts have many of the same problems as their inspiration.
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TikTok's algorithm recently sent me down a rabbit hole of misogyny disguised as empowerment, and I think we need to talk about it.
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The fashion designer, artist and TikTok star talks to Friday Things about Indigenous TikTok and why she uses it to share her Inuvialuit culture.
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Regular people, governments and (most troubling to me) journalists are telling a story about Queen Elizabeth and the monarchy that just isn't true.
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Over the past couple of weeks, Singh posted a slew of TiKToks celebrating Caribbean culture, and especially chutney music. Here's why that's a problem.
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Friday Thingsâ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in September 2022, including Hocus Pocus 2, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 3 of Central Park, American Gigolo and Blonde.
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It tells female journalists weâre all going to age out of this business, journalists with more privilege not to stand up for their peers with less, and all of us that the bottom line matters more than the work we do.
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As it turns out, no amount of social niceties will change the fact that in almost 100 years, the magazine has published only four book reviews by Black women.
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Yes, the main characters have great chemistry and that one song is super catchy, but is that enough to make up for the rampant pro-military messaging in 'Purple Hearts'? Uh, no.
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Friday Thingsâ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in August 2022, including Never Have I Everâs third season and the premieres of The Bear, Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, A League of Their Own and Drag Race Philippines.
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The Hulu docuseries illuminates the dark side of Victoria's Secret's rise to retail dominance, but it's as much about slimy marketing as it is about predatory men
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The romance novelist offers insight into the appeal of audiobooks, choosing the right narrator and her new book, The Comeback
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Kim Kardashian looks pretty different these daysâlighter skin, blonde hair, noticeably thinner. But while Iâve been thinking about this new aesthetic as a return to whiteness, it might actually be more complicated than that.
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Between Bette Midler and E. Jean Carroll, I am all out of patience for privileged white women who donât understand the concept of intersectionality.
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Friday Thingsâ must-watch picks for Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus and Netflix Canada in July 2022, including Stranger Things 4, Volume 2, The Gray Man, Persuasion, Canadaâs Drag Race and Scarborough.
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A close reading of BeyoncĂ©âs âBreak My Soul.â Or, four loosely related thoughts on house music, race and capitalism. (Oh, and also Drake.)
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Graham is suing Bell Media for gender discrimination in part because a Black man was promoted to a role she thought was hers.
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Joel Kim Boosterâs Pride and Prejudice-inspired rom-com celebrates (and subverts) rom-com tropes to tell a story thatâs both sweet and sharp. For one white journalist, that was a problem.
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Five years ago, #MeToo, Tarana Burkeâs feminist movement went viral, ushering in an era of accountability for predatory men. The Depp/Heard verdict proves just how short-lived that era was.
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