Top 20 Cultural Events of 2020

Amidst the stressed-mess dipped in doomed-gloom that was 2020, there were memorable cultural events that made us smile, think, dance, laugh, feel schadenfreude and also hopeful for the future. I picked 20 events that are near and dear to my pop culture, politics, science & medicine heart. In listing them all, the goal is to reveal the speckles of light that shined in the otherwise dark abyss that was 2020.

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BirdBox, Blindfolds, and Border Walls: Till Fear Do Us Apart

Americans are living in a moment dominated by sociopolitcal fear. Provocations of fear inundate our national conversations and declarations that we should fear others are spewed from the White House. At the core of the MAGA message is fear of the future and fear of change. Birdbox shows us what happens to society when we let fear become the primary glue that holds us together.

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Dirty Computers Got the Juice: An Analysis

Janelle Monae’s latest album, ‘Dirty Computer’ beautifully weaves themes of black resistance, feminism, and self-love while squarely centering queerness and black womanhood. The album and its accompanying emotion picture are groundbreaking. Here, I’ve written an in-depth analysis of ‘Dirty Computer.’ I dissect the songs, the videos, and discuss the potential lasting effects of Janelle Monae’s magnus opus.

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