In her new essay collection “Trick Mirror,” Jia Tolentino paints a bleak picture of our world of scams, mistruths, and self-delusions—all exacerbated by the internet. Is there a way out?
“When you have young adults and teens and kids looking up to these heroes, and you don’t have a face for yourself, I think that really influences confidence, self-identity, and a host of other issues.”
It is difficult to overstate how revolutionary these moments are for a television ecosystem that has long relegated fat women to predetermined categories: gross, hypersexual (or, alternatively, asexual), subordinate, unintelligent, and of course, shrill.
Nothing feels more millennial than the bravado of vulnerability.
“Toni Morrison, without a doubt, served as the greatest Anglophone writer of the twentieth century…[she] wrote as a Black woman, about Black women, for Black women.”
“Like most of us, the creators of Stranger Things seem unable or unwilling to imagine a storyline in which men can realize themselves as emotional beings without attaching that realization to the trauma of women. To be sure, the show’s female characters are resilient—but should they have to be?”
“Underneath its raunchy humor, Russian Doll makes the case for how important it is to help each other get through the most difficult parts of life.”
