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<em>Dear White People</em> and Lorde: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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Pilot Viruet | “All of these characters are honest and multi-dimensional, tasked with navigating the gap between how they see themselves and how others see them, while constantly code-switching throughout the day. They’re also fully aware of their contradictions in a specific way central to our culture: admitting to secretly streaming , raging against Apple’s slave labor while scrolling through an iPhone. is very much about our culture—it's not a show made with white

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