Tajja Isen on how A Wrinkle in Time opened a world of belonging to her, even before Ava DuVernay's film adaptation cast characters who looked like her.
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Young adulthood is often the first time when we experience the grief of lost time. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a stoic tribute to the beauty and levity of each quiet moment of our formation.
It’s difficult to find examples of nuanced disabled characters in literature. Marian Ryan writes about her experience becoming disabled in middle age and her search to find someone like herself in the world of books and movies around her.
In featuring black characters who confounded stereotypes, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gave language to a generation of black Americans looking for affirmation of their experiences.
To yearn for home is to wonder how its small, mundane moments can feel so unattainable — relics of another time. Takahata Isao’s work at Studio Ghibli and beyond both created this quiet beauty and provided comfort to those who long for it from afar.
The language and experience of what it means to grow up South Asian in the West is still largely unexplored. "Bend It Like Beckham" was the first movie to embrace these questions — to pave way for those growing up without examples of who they could become.
In Black Panther, the struggle between hero and villain is not simply a fight between good and evil, but rather the difficult reconciliation between African and African American identity. Jeffrey Bissoy writes about the questions Marvel falls short of exploring.
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