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[Image description: Artist Miraa May holds up a peace sign while smiling.] Via Complex

How Miraa May’s music helped me redefine femininity

Amal Als
Attribution: [Image description: Still from (Aladdin): A woman in orange wearing jewellery with green accents, and a lady wearing red look quizzically at someone out of frame.] via imdb.com

Are the Disney live-action remakes necessary?

Amandi Fernando
[Image Description: The cover of Letters To You, with the title written in a grey serif font over a watercolor pink background, with grey mountains below]. Via Aafiyah Shaikh.

On love, heartbreak and strength: how author Aafiyah Shaikh inspires us to rise again

Sumaia Masoom
Photo of popstar Rina Sawayama posing with her back to a glass window looking out at a blurry cityscape. She is looking directly at the camera.

Rina Sawayama is challenging notions about identity, and British Music Awards should take notes

Priyanka Sen
The album art for Walk Beyond the Dark, the atmosopheric black metal album by Abigail Williams. A painting of a hooded figure overshadowing smaller figures walking towards the center of the cloaked figure.

“Walk Beyond the Dark”—an atmospheric black metal album review

Jamie Saoirse O'Duibhir
A brunette girl, Rory Gilmore, smiling.

In Hindsight: Rory Gilmore from “Gilmore Girls” is a bit of a terrible person

Sana Panjwani
[Image description: Chrissy Teigen asleep on a hospital bed breathing through a mask and John Legend holding hands with her and resting his head on her shoulder] Via @chrissyteigen

Let Chrissy Teigen mourn in peace

Hannah Rachel Abraham
Attribution: [Image description: A picture of the Love Island US 2020 winners.] Via Google images

“Love Island” makes history by crowning first Black couple winners, Justine Ndiba and Caleb Corprew

Ebony Purks
The image shows the book cover of Uprooted by Naomi Novik.

Naomi Novik’s “Uprooted” is a stand-alone fantasy wonderland for all magic lovers

Deboparna Poddar
[Image description: Still from "Emily In Paris" - a brunette girl (Lily Collins) stands on a bridge holding her phone in both hands.] Via Netflix

Netflix’s “Emily In Paris” is the new rom-com you will hate to love

Federica Bocco
A still from Aladdin: a woman and a man on a flying carpet look at each other. Via Disney on Slate.

Disney is ignoring accent representation, and it’s more frightening than you think

Apoorva Verghese
[Image description: A crowd of people wearing virtual reality headsets sits in an auditorium.] via Maurizio Pesce

No, empathy video games won’t fix hate

Jamie Saoirse O'Duibhir