Even when they're not in uniform, cops are everywhere in our media: music, film, TV, TikTok, journalism, and more. pop justice is Scalawag's bi-weekly newsletter that sits right at the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition.
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'It's not a story—it's a life:' A look at Snapped, from the inside
'What's true in true crime, is that somebody's dead. That's the only truth.'
Come on Barbie, give us nothing!
The film's hypnosis of capitalism, nostalgia, and lifelessness punts meaningful concepts into the void—but maybe that's the point.
Barbie: Pretty Police
An abolitionist perspective on the Barbie movie's depiction of a larger-than-life, imaginative universe as a reminder to keep fighting to build in our own worlds anew.
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