<h4>Kristen Warner is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her book, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind Casting, was released in June 2015. Kristen blogs at Dear Black Woman (<a href="https://kaydubya.wordpress.com/">https://kaydubya.wordpress.com</a>).</h4>

Kristen Warner

Blue Skies Again: Streamers and the Impossible Promise of Diversity

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen

Television

Clare Croft is a dance theorist and historian, and sometimes a dramaturg and curator. She is the author of&nbsp;Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange&nbsp;(Oxford 2015), and the editor and curator of the anthology and website,&nbsp;Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings&nbsp;(Oxford 2017). She is also founder and curator of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.daringdances.org/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.daringdances.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591025969134000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH4J_FRCJ5RiY5HHZdPlo_zc5c3Og">Daring Dances</a>, a program based in southeastern Michigan that considers how watching dance and making dance can lead us into necessary, difficult conversations. Croft is Associate Professor of Dance &amp; American Culture at the University of Michigan.

Clare Croft

Dance Routines, Pandemic Routines: Ryan Heffington's "SWEATFEST"

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

Fans with Feels: Game of Thrones as Soap Opera

The “Girls” Habit

Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip Maciak, Sarah Mesle, &amp; others

Dear Television

[Home] Girls: “Insecure” and HBO’s Risky Racial Politics

Kristen Warner is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her book, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind Casting, was released in June 2015. Kristen blogs at Dear Black Woman (<a href="https://kaydubya.wordpress.com/">https://kaydubya.wordpress.com</a>).