A few musings…
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Trending away from gender roles
It may feel strange to think of something as established as gender roles as a “trend”, but I would like to explore this concept. Though they are centuries-spanning, binary gender roles are very much a cultural invention meant to create social order. And they may have been effective in that, but at what cost? It…
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Think-piece: “Avatar”
Are we going to keep ignoring the white savior (and white director) in blockbuster movies about POC/Indigenous people? Colonization; genocide; segregation; discrimination; exploitation. They have happened, and they still do. This is our history, and we cannot ignore it. However… is spending hundreds of millions of dollars producing blockbusters the best alternative? Movie after movie…
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Me vs. School
When I think about my career of schooling up until college, I think of the words simple and predetermined. Neither have a good or bad connotation, they just are. Simple, because I never had to question the path ahead. Predetermined, because, well, you can guess this one:) I’ve known from the age of six that…
Emma Tremont 