We’re doing some interesting Chicago-based events in the next few months that we wanted to share with you: We’re happy to be a sponsor of…
by Keidra Chaney Nancy Jo Sales’ American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers (2016) takes on quite a bit: the rise of…
By Keidra Chaney There was a point, believe it or not, where an individual “aged out” of Hello Kitty, at least here in the United…
by Keidra Chaney It’s been an overwhelming publishing cycle over in Hot Take City. I’ve read two book anthologies worth of Beyonce “Formation” think pieces and the…
By Keidra Chaney The past couple of weeks I’ve been obsessed with this Taiwanese drama called Bromance. It’s the kind of gender-bending romantic comedy —…
We are thrilled to kick off our new longform/feature series, called TLF Seminar Series. We wanted to give an opportunity for writers and pop culture…
By Keidra Chaney So I caught up with this comic pretty quickly and I decided to read the Holiday Special issue since there was still…
By Keidra Chaney I bristle when people describe Jem and the Holograms as “superheroes.” Jem always struck me more as a mahou shojo (Magical girl) character…
The impending shutdown of Beats Music wasn’t much of a surprise to most people in the know, but it seems that Pandora’s purchase of Rdio…
Presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in Milwaukee. This paper is intended to focus on some of the economic and structural issues that…