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I am Alex Mell-Taylor. I am a nonbinary culture writer who writes unseriously about important topics and very seriously about unimportant ones. If there's a hill out there, I have died on it. Please return my corpse to the nearest coat check. Greatest Hits The Most Exhausting Part About America Is The Pretending Refuting "American Exceptionalism" so that we can build a better tomorrow!aninjusticemag.com

Alex Has Opinions

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Who is this Alex with the opinions? (BIO)
Who is this Alex with the opinions? (BIO)

Published in Fanfare

·2 days ago

Breaking Down Disney’s “Woke” Advertising

Mining the Far Rights Toxic Reaction to Diversity for Profit — Listen, I love Disney. I am up to date on both the MCU and Star Wars. I have also watched every Disney animated movie from Hercules to Turning Red. I have not stopped loving Disney cartoons as an adult, and, now that this company has problematically acquired every popular media…

Television

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Breaking Down Disney’s “Woke” Advertising
Breaking Down Disney’s “Woke” Advertising

Published in An Injustice!

·Jun 17

Historically, Shame Has (Sometimes) Been A Good Thing

Suffragettes, Civil Rights, The Black Panther Party, & ACT UP — In the past, the argument that "shaming people is always wrong" was one I identified with strongly. I wrote an entire piece arguing in length how shame was not a good principle to organize around (see Unpacking the Deadly Politics of Shame). In that piece, I concluded: "…shame seems to…

Politics

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Historically, Shame Has (Sometimes) Been A Good Thing
Historically, Shame Has (Sometimes) Been A Good Thing

Jun 14

The Chemical Plant That Is To Die For (ft. The LyondellBasell Channelview Complex)

Climate Change, global warming, corporations, & aliens! — Why hello there, traveler, and welcome to the "Apocalypse Tour." This is thee place to observe all the locations that had a significant impact on species 947's collapse (947 were also known as humanity [hyoo·ma·nuh·tee]). …

Climate Change

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The Chemical Plant That Is To Die For (ft. The LyondellBasell Channelview Complex)
The Chemical Plant That Is To Die For (ft. The LyondellBasell Channelview Complex)

Published in An Injustice!

·Jun 9

You Don’t Need To See The Documentary “What is a Woman?”

We don’t have to treat every piece of content in good faith — Recently the trailer for the film “What is a Woman?” has been going around. The “documentary” (a word I use loosely) is from the mind of conservative transphobe Matt Welsh (I think that’s his name, I can’t be bothered to look it up), a man who has made a history…

LGBTQ

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You Don’t Need To See The Documentary “What is a Woman?”
You Don’t Need To See The Documentary “What is a Woman?”

Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Jun 7

Mayor Muriel Bowser And The Housing Fund She Mismanaged

DC Politics, Affordable Housing, and Gentrification — This article was originally published in the Washington Socialist. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is often compared to the men who preceded her. Mayor Vincent Gray, her predecessor, was not only accused of giving a competitor a job for badmouthing someone on the campaign trail but faced a federal probe into…

Politics

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Mayor Muriel Bowser And The Housing Fund She Mismanaged
Mayor Muriel Bowser And The Housing Fund She Mismanaged

Published in Fanfare

·Jun 6

Hadestown Is Thee Musical To Listen To For Climate Anxiety

This retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice has a political message relevant for our times. — Climate Change is terrifying. Even following the news around it is exhausting. Every day reveals new horrors about rising seas, vanishing resources, and diminishing crop yields. Our political leaders have not responded to this threat appropriately, and this negligence has left a lot of us with anxiety about the future.

Culture

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Hadestown Is Thee Musical To Listen To For Climate Anxiety
Hadestown Is Thee Musical To Listen To For Climate Anxiety

Published in Fanfare

·Jun 3

Horizon Forbidden West Rightfully Depicts The Rich As Villains

Unpacking the biggest theme in Guerrilla Games’ Post-Apocalyptic Adventure — The Horizon series is a fun romp set in the distant future. It's ultimately about a lot of things: a post-apocalyptic adventure where you slay robot dinosaurs with bows and arrows, a narrative about the nature of humanity and AI; a feminist tale about a kickass warrior named Aloy (voiced…

Gaming

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Horizon Forbidden West Rightfully Depicts The Rich As Villains
Horizon Forbidden West Rightfully Depicts The Rich As Villains

Published in An Injustice!

·May 26

I Can't Process These Shootings Anymore

Death is all around me, & I struggle to shed a tear — Back in 2012, the Sandy Hook massacre broke my heart. Twenty-six people dead — twenty of whom were children. I had trouble wrapping my head around the cruelty of it all. …

Culture

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I Can't Process These Shootings Anymore
I Can't Process These Shootings Anymore

Published in Fanfare

·May 26

Netflix's 'The Pentaverate' Gets Power All Wrong

The show about conspiracy theories fails to understand social change — What if a secret organization of five men ruled the world? And what if they were nice? Such is the premise of Mike Myer's new comedy Netflix series, The Pentaverate (2022) — the show that makes fun of some of pop culture's most popular conspiracy theories. The series follows sweet-talking…

Television

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Netflix's 'The Pentaverate' Gets Power All Wrong
Netflix's 'The Pentaverate' Gets Power All Wrong
Alex Mell-Taylor

Alex Mell-Taylor

I write about pop culture and politics. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/opinionsalexhas Write for me: https://medium.com/after-the-storm

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