The Game of Thrones Cult
Pop culture juggernaut Game of Thrones is returning to the US on 7 April, and the hit HBO series will be simulcast in the UK, showing just how big its fandom has grown—and highlighting the tensions...
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Solidarity for Muslimahs: An American Girls Soccer Team Dons Hijab
Observant Muslimah Samah Aidah, a high school student in Colorado, wears her hijab or head covering as a component of her religious faith wherever she goes in public, like many other Muslim women....
A Bit of Marshmallow: The Veronica Mars Movie
After seven long years, we finally got another chapter in the life of Veronica Mars, snarky detective with a hidden heart of gold. The Veronica Mars movie hit screens and computer screens...
Ban Bossy: What’s Wrong With Bossy?
Sheryl Sandberg, Condoleeza Rice, and the Girl Scouts have joined together in a campaign to ‘ban bossy,’ and they’ve been joined by a growing number of other high-powered women and women’s...
Review: True Detective
HBO continues its streak of cinematic, grand scope, big picture television with True Detective, which runs its season finale this Sunday after a short (eight episodes only) but critically acclaimed...
Gays Not Welcome: America’s New Wave of “Religious Freedom” Laws
If Arizona legislators have their way, business owners will soon be able to deny services to people on the grounds that they’re wearing mixed fibers—a Biblical no-no—along with others who...
How Downton Abbey Punishes Women
With almost everything worth watching (with the exception of Brooklyn Nine Nine) on hiatus in the US right now, viewers are even more riveted to Downton Abbey than usual. As Julian Fellowes furthers...
On Piers Morgan’s Transphobia
Janet Mock is one of the most visible, active, and outspoken women of colour in US media today. A former editor at People with a lengthy and impressive resume to her credit, she’s celebrating the...
The Best Bit of the Game? The 2014 Super Bowl ads
With the biggest sporting event in the US comes, of course, the biggest advertising event in an already ad-driven society. As US companies vie for attention in some of the most expensive advertising...
No Cheap Shots: HBO’s Looking
HBO’s new programme Looking seems to be attracting rather polarised responses: some are hailing it as refreshingly true to the lives of gay men in their 30s and 40s, while others are complaining...