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Why Did Bridgerton Erase Haiti?

Bodies and Minds Marlene L. Daut - 0
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels are mostly populated with white people like the regency-era England where they take place. The London of Shonda Rhimes’s Bridgerton...
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“Find Something New to Love”(as long as it’s not Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza)

The Wide, Wide World Monica Huerta - 0
  There's only one piece of dogma I’ve never questioned: Mexican Pizza is the best thing at Taco Bell. That makes the fact that in...
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Home for the Wookiee Holidays

The Wide, Wide World Clara Bosak-Schroeder - 0
Of all the beautiful moments in the original Star Wars Holiday Special, the one I hold most dear is a close-up shot of Malla’s...
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On Almost Breastfeeding My Mother

Bodies and Minds Mary-Jane Rubenstein - 0
Ping. I turn from the ungraded papers, unfolded laundry, and unsigned petitions piling up around me toward my phone, suddenly chirping out from under...
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The Unlikely Activist

The Wide, Wide World Diane Josefowicz - 0
In August, Omaha seethes. But downtown, in the Old Market, the bookstore is cool and dark. Books run up the walks and collect in...
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The Nanny’s Loud Body

Bodies and Minds Ana Quiring - 0
Late in the series run of CBS’s The Nanny, the show’s aesthetics of excess finally confront their final frontier: fatness. Thick thighs befall the...
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