Losing the guardian of happy endings
Emma Teitel on how Robin Williams became a generation’s moral guide
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Emma Teitel
Emma Teitel is a National Magazine Award-winning columnist who writes frequently about women’s issues and popular culture. She gets a lot of hate mail, mostly from Burnaby, British Columbia.
Feminism is not whatever you want it to be
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The surprisingly chaste reason South Korean pop culture is suddenly all the rage
Turning the tables on Instagram
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Is Kiesza trolling us?
The Calgary-born artist is working to save dance music from the clutches of brooding, glum DJs
Why Jews don’t dare criticize Israel
Why don’t Jews speak openly and critically about Israeli policy, as the Gaza conflict rages on? Thinly veiled anti-Semitism.
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Why the nostalgic headdress won’t go away
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LGBT Baby Boomers find themselves fighting homophobia, again
The challenges facing aging gay, lesbian and trans seniors
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John Green’s novel — now movie — brings a startling idea to the teen-romance universe: the end of immortality