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Amy Wasney

Comedy Essays

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The Bend and Snap, works every time: an essay on ‘Legally Blonde’

by Amy Wasney

August 28, 2019

Elle Woods spent so much of her life playing by the rules that had been laid out for her, bending under the weight of what society wanted her to be.
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"A League of Their Own" Essays, Women's History Month

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Two sets of rules

by Amy Wasney

April 18, 2019

When men participate, it's an event. When women participate, it's a show. In video games, male characters wear full suits of armor; female characters wear metal bikinis. In comic books
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"Strong Island" Essays

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I can’t understand

by Amy Wasney

February 25, 2019

Both willingly and unwillingly, Yance and so many others have done so much emotional labor to tell us their stories and relive their trauma, all to reveal to us the
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"Black Panther" Essays

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Body, Heart, Soul

by Amy Wasney

January 22, 2019

General Okoye, Spy Nakia, Princess Shuri. The film might be “Black Panther” (2018), but without these women, there would be no T’Challa, no Black Panther, no Wakanda, no Earth. While
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"The Virgin Suicides" Essays

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Superman Is Just For Kids

by Amy Wasney

November 8, 2018

It took the rest of the Lisbon girls a little while longer to learn, but not much longer. Lux mostly got the lesson from Trip. Waking up to find you’ve
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