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• A Discerning Millennial's Intro To Presidential Porn Parody

  by Aaminah Khan

  "Presidential porn, like a lot of niche porn, exists partly as a way of proving social cachet, kind of like a red, white and blue-themed 2 Girls 1 Cup."

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• Safe To Say #TheTriggering Was A Myopic, Laughable Failure

  by Aaminah Khan

  "The people behind #TheTriggering weren’t dauntless free speech advocates—just sad and spiteful little gremlins who genuinely think that trans people should die and women need to talk less."

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• The 8 People Moving Into Your Gentrified Neighbourhood

  by Aaminah Khan

  "As your home is bulldozed to make room for a new block of condos, why not cheer yourself up with a little people-spotting?"

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• DiCaprio Win Proves The Oscars Really Are Equal Opportunity

  by Aaminah Khan

  "The Revenant will go down in history as a veritable harbinger for countless Oscar wins to come for white people starring in stories about people of colour."

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• Films That Ignore Realities of Race Can Never Be "Great Art"

  by Aaminah Khan

  "[The] film industry...derides and eschews escapism and fantasy in film as childish in favour of gritty realism, [yet finds] itself either unwilling or unable to reflect reality as it is."

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• Hindur Demonstrates How Arranged Marriages (Don't) Work

  by Aaminah Khan

  "To conflate coerced marriages and consensual arranged marriages isn’t just ignorant–it’s harmfully disingenuous."

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• Don't Tell Me, A Queer Muslim, About Homophobia In Islam

  HPh RV

  by Aaminah Khan

  "Whenever my religion comes up, you can be sure that at least one sanctimonious white person will rush to remind me that Muslims are bloodthirsty, backwards savages..."

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