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About a Girl
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The Sellout
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and power.
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Stone Butch Blues
Carries a strong pull into film through power and memory.
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Intimacies
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Between the World and Me
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Enlightened
2010s
Enlightened is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on October 10, 2011. The series was created by Mike White, who wrote every episode, and Laura Dern. As signaled by its tagline "About a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough", Enlightened follows the story of Amy Jellicoe (Dern),...
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Stone Butch Blues
1990s
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America. While fictional, the work also takes inspiration from Feinberg's own life, and she describes it as her "call to action."
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2000s
Psychedelic pop about a girl fighting robots. Do You Realize?? as accidental anthem.
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K-On!
2000s
A fresh high school year always means much to come, and one of those things is joining a club. Being in a dilemma about which club to join, Yui Hirasawa stumbles upon and applies for the Light Music Club, which she misinterprets to be about playing simple instruments, such as castanets. Unable to play an instrument,...
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Essays 2010s
Between the World and Me
A letter to a son about being Black in America. Baldwin updated for the 21st century.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a 1600 book by William Shakespeare, linked to England and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Anime 2020s
Trigun Stampede
Vash the Stampede reimagined in 3D. Space western about pacifism in a violent world.
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About Adam
About Adam is a 2000 film from United Kingdom, United States, and Ireland, associated with Gerard Stembridge. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 2020s
Intimacies
"A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into si...
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...