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• In Media Res
  Re: Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly"

  I don’t have much to add to

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  Alison Winch University of East Anglia, UK

  Wednesday, January 27, 2016 — 8:56 am

  I don't have much to add to these other comments, but just to say that this video is so exciting! I’m fascinated by the connections that you’re making between female friendship, cross-racial collectivities and the idea of ‘alongside’, as well as the ...
• In Media Res
  Re: One of the GRRRLS: Lizzo and the Feminist Potential of Musical Collaboration

  This video is amazing and I

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  Alison Winch University of East Anglia, UK

  Wednesday, January 27, 2016 — 8:55 am

  This video is amazing and I love your analysis of it, including how Lizzo dances with Sophia Eris and the dancers. It speaks to Christine’s post about collectivity and female friendships. Its imperfection is part of what makes it so affecting. Also agree ...
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  Re: With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

  I’m torn between seeing this

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  Alison Winch University of East Anglia, UK

  Thursday, January 28, 2016 — 8:43 am

  I’m torn between seeing this clip – and the show as a whole – as deconstructing the wide range of emotional experiences and attachments in friendship, including (or especially) all the messy and hard stuff. And seeing the characters as hollow, inflected w ...
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  Re: ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women’: Taylor Swift and Celebrity Feminist Friendship

  Yes, Lauren, I totally agree

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  Alison Winch University of East Anglia, UK

  Friday, January 29, 2016 — 12:36 pm

  Yes, Lauren, I totally agree with exclusivity of Taylor’s #squad: slim, white, heteronormative, able-bodied. And this is really problematic if it is linked to her feminism. If her feminism is grounded in her girlfriends and her girlfriends are like her, t ...