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Culture Shot, Finance

Thursday, August 11, 2022

6 tracks from artists offering their 2 cents on money

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In honor of the finance impact issue, here are six tracks that might not solve all your financial woes, but will hopefully provide you with the motivation to chase that bag.
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Culture Shot, Finance

Thursday, August 11, 2022
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Hate the game, don’t hate the player: on girlbosses, gendered marketing, glorifying tech

The inherent humor of girlbosses lies in how their regurgitated and cliched truisms on how to live life and become successful women are steeped in whiteness.
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Culture Shot, Finance

Thursday, August 11, 2022
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The white wealth satire: How ‘Succession,’ ‘The White Lotus’ sidestep diversity demands

While “The White Lotus” and “Succession” do showcase people of color, they fail to dive deeper into their characters.
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Culture Shot

Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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Exploring Charli XCX’s main pop girl motif

Charli XCX’s capturing of the “main pop girl” aesthetic is not an imitation — it is an oracular impulse.
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Culture Shot

Friday, July 29, 2022
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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’: 10 essential tracks

As both preparation and celebration for Beyoncé’s much-anticipated Renaissance release, here’s a guide to 10 essential tracks.
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Culture Shot

Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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Queer rapture: Reconciling religious rhetoric

Artists such as Rina Sawayama, King Princess, Frank Ocean and Semler have all explored the tension between spirituality and sexuality — and some have even tried to reconcile it.
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Culture Shot

Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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Memory, technological alienation in ‘Memoria’

Technology displaces, and it is while displaced — at some remove from the present — that one remembers the past.
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Culture Shot, Pride 2022

Thursday, June 23, 2022
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Saddle up, partner: The gay cowboy in modern media

The hypermasculinity of the Western often reinforces harmful stereotypes, especially when the line between violence and intimacy is blurred.
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Culture Shot, Pride 2022

Thursday, June 23, 2022
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‘Heartstopper’: The quintessential queerness of comics

The storytelling method of bringing word to picture is built on the idea that anything that can be drawn can be believed. It is one of the few places where the fantastical is expected, the envelope is begging to be pushed.
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Culture Shot

Thursday, June 16, 2022
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Kate Bush saves lives, at least in ‘Stranger Things’

Released in 1985 as the opening single for Bush’s acclaimed album Hounds of Love, “Running Up That Hill” has shot to the top of charts once more.
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