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How Barbieheimer Exposed The Gendered Box Of Blockbuster CinemaWhen Barbie and Oppenheimer opened on the same weekend in July 2023, the paired release became a global cultural event. Audiences dressed in pink, booked…
The Gendered History of the Housewife Aesthetic in Interior Design MediaA polished kitchen, a bowl of lemons and a woman in linen can look like harmless lifestyle content. Yet interior design media has long used domestic spaces to…
Why The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Trope Still Gets A PassThe Manic Pixie Dream Boy is a familiar figure in romantic comedy and coming-of-age stories: charming, eccentric, emotionally open and apparently immune to…
Why Normal gossip and similar narrative shows avoid feminist critiqueThe form of entertainment that promises proximity to the unguarded lives of others has rarely been subject to the same scrutiny reserved for film, prestige…
The Damage of Reality TV's Competitive Female Friendship TropeReality television has long traded on the currency of conflict, and nowhere is that more visible than in how it depicts women interacting with one another.…
What the beige flag trend quietly reveals about dating safetyA short scroll through TikTok lately surfaces a new vocabulary of caution: the beige flag. Sitting between a dealbreaker and a charming quirk, a beige flag…
When Motherhood Becomes Content, Commerce FollowsThe polished family feed often looks like a diary, but it functions like a shopfront. A toddler’s tantrum becomes a caption, a recovery story becomes a brand…
The Quiet Erasure of Non-Binary Identities in Australian MediaAcross news bulletins, streaming platforms and breakfast television in Australia, the stories of gender-diverse people are routinely condensed, simplified or…
Why The Worst Person in the World challenges and reinforces ageismJoachim Trier's 2021 Norwegian film The Worst Person in the World arrived carrying the weight of international acclaim, including the Academy Award for Best…
The olympics' gender testing legacy and its colonial imprintThe International Olympic Committee's long history of sex verification reads more like an inheritance of colonial surveillance than a neutral scientific…