Add these to your reading list to celebrate International Women’s Day.
It's taken almost 90 years - but Disney's first South East Asian heroine premiered on Thursday. This begs the question - what exactly is a South East Asian identity and can Disney's latest heroine really embody it?
The social media harassment of Kelly Marie Tran was abominable, but it’s not fair to say that racism is baked into the epic franchise’s core
David Simon and fellow The Wire veteran George Pelecanos are teaming up to make a new limited series for HBO called We Own This City, which is based on journalist Justin Fenton’s book of the same name.
A former student and admirer of the late Canadian Marxist Leo Panitch writes on his influence as a teacher, scholar and militant.
"If Wikipedia is a test case for techno-utopianism," writes reviewer Panovka, "it is also a test case for an older ideology similarly unfashionable these days—your garden-variety Enlightenment-era liberalism."
Superman & Lois pointedly comments on real-world issues. The Daily Planet suffers a round of brutal media layoffs and Smallville, once thriving, is crumbling under an economic collapse that sees big businesses buying up all the small family farms.
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