Marginalized people with platforms face harsher expectations and worse criticism when it comes to parasocial dynamics online. CW/TW: Discussion of white supremacy, queerphobia, social exploitation of marginalized people By Shaanth Nanguneri In every Tiktok, Youtube video, and Tweet we consume, our parasocial relationships with content creators are evolving. The idea of a parasocial relationship in...
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Our Communities Don’t Need To Prove Our Worth To White Supremacists
When people in marginalized communities try to prove our “worth” to white supremacists, it’s a time-consuming distraction from the real work ahead of us. By Kiran Misra With a South Asian American at the top of the Democratic Party ticket this election cycle, two party conventions where the issue of South Asian American identity was...