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Author: Brea Shanice

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The Compassion of Baby Reindeer

By Brea Shanice • June 5th, 2024

It feels like we missed a transformative moment to signal to those living in the darkness of survivor’s remorse that we are ready to listen without judgment or reproach. The good news is we still can.

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How to Survive Your Last High School Reunion

By Brea Shanice • February 29th, 2024

So, you’re at your reunion, and folks haven’t seen you in years. The question turns to your career, but you are quite embarrassed. What do you do? Lie, naturally. Well friend, I’m going to advise against lying about being a doctor, especially at your last reunion.

A screenshot from the Queen's Gambit where Jolene smiles with her face in her hands laying next to Beth Harmon who is intensely studying a book

(Hopefully) Waving Goodbye to the Trope of the Magical Negro

By Brea Shanice • January 3rd, 2024

Years have passed and Beth has grown into an adult with her own full-blown addiction and untreated trauma. So naturally in the middle of her descent, her best Magical Negro friend comes back to cushion her fall.

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A Plague of Denial: The Haunting of One’s Mind

By Brea Shanice • October 10th, 2023

How would this version of A Turn of the Screw live up to all the others? I can say without a doubt that I have found a new favorite adaptation.

Screenshot of a fan cam of an Erykah Badu concert where she is front and center with arms spread out to her sides holding a note

Concert of the Summer with Mother Badu

By Brea Shanice • August 10th, 2023

With velvety and spellbinding vocals, Ms. Badu proves she doesn’t need to be titled Queen when she has clearly come to reign as Mother Supreme.

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