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Category Archives: Everyone’s a Critic
Song Lyrics and the Evolution of Thought: “Sharleena” and “Hey Joe”
Your idols are human, they will let you down. The important thing is to know what about them inspired you, and what about them you do not want for yourself. Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Music
Tagged Art, Education, Gender, Music, Relationships, Sexuality, Violence
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Minow and Me
The internet is no longer a #vastwasteland BC I #selfiesohard. Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Television
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F8: Why I love the Fast and Furious Franchise
F8: Better than Furious Seven, still not as good as Fast Five. But #Letty and #Ramsey are my new favorite #dynamicduo. Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Movies
Tagged Culture, Family, Globalization, Identity, Movies, Youth
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16th Annual Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media: Donny Jackson
Check out pictures, tweets, and video at Storify. Clips coming soon! UPDATE: Congratulations to Donny Jackson, Ph.D. and Kamau Bell for their first Emmy for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program! Donny Jackson, executive producer and show runner for CNN’s “United Shades of … Continue reading
Posted in Charisse is Cool, Classes, Intersectional Identities, Satire, Television
Tagged Culture, Journalism, Media, Psychology, Race, Social Justice
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WTF is Real Fake News?: The Mashup of Reality and Satire
We lack a shared reality thereby making it impossible to ridicule the absurdity of reality. Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Charisse is Cool, Everyone's a Critic, Satire, Television
Tagged Art, Culture, Media, Politics, Psychology
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Mary Tyler Moore: The Exemplary Disruption of the Single City Girl now available at flowjournal.org
https://www.flowjournal.org/2017/02/disruption-of-the-single-city-girl-archetype/ This weekend, I met Jay Sandrich, director/producer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Cosby Show, A Different World, SOAP, Benson, Empty Nest, It Takes Two, The Tony Randall Show, Golden Girls, and more. He liked my essay, but thought … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Media and identity Construction, Research, Television
Tagged Beauty, Culture, Gender, Identity, Media, Social Justice
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Using Satire to Teach Diversity
In this changing media and cultural environment, satire is emerging in new and innovative spaces outside of traditional media is a double edged sword: we can access and consume marginalized satire (e.g., Black Twitter, Reductress) but this conversation is increasingly … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Classes, Consulting, Satire, Television
Tagged Art, Civic Engagement, Culture, Education, Gender, Identity, Media, Race
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