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Isha Aran
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Isha is a staff reporter who covers pop culture, representation in media, and your new faves.

In a movie about friggin’ superheroes it’s the political economy of a made-up country that isn’t realistic? 🤔 And is the first time in the history of Marvel movies where that’s the case? 🤔 I feel like something about this argument is not white. Right! I meant not right. Read more

The whole of our current world is based on the colonialism of Western European countries and the economic systems they set up. Before being invaded, native cultures had, surprise!, their own values systems, economics, and political structures. Calling Wakanda’s society “unrealistic” shows how thoroughly entrenched Read more

First of all, everything makes conservatives feel threatened. It’s what they do. Read more

Why is it that every halfwit with an ego suddenly presumes they can discuss really complex social science topics despite clearly having no background in relevant fields? I mean, the assumptions here are pretty cliched (human nature leads to war) but this stuff is all heavily debated in political science literature and Read more

Celebrity jumps on social movement bandwagon for branding and public relations and does it poorly.

Well...Misogyny is cured. Guess I’ll take an early lunch. Read more

This has always intrigued me. Reducing important people from other cultures to a parody. On the one hand, totally insensitive dick move. On the other, no one is “saintly” enough to deserve protection from parody. So, that leads to the next problem. Can you make an important figure a parody without being a complete Read more

Thanks for sharing this. I never heard of this show but now I’d like to see it. Seems to me those politicians are guilty of gross misuse of a hunger strike. I tried to think about how I would feel if MLK were portrayed in a similar way. Would I be as bent out of shape as those politicians? Then I remembered a Read more

This was one of my favorite shows of all time. I was also about 12 and a little awkward south asian american kid who got super pissed when the show was canceled; thank you so much for writing this it’s... making me understand a lot of my feelings. Read more

The “very special episode” where they killed off The Ponce was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen on TV. Read more

Put me in a room with Melania Trump and Philip Glass and guess who I’m going to fanboy over. Read more

I imagine if Beyoncé were standing next to Melania here in the States we’d see something similar Read more