Another instalment in my annual Met Gala digest.
Mama Cass Elliot: What Does An Icon Represent?
Mama Cass Elliot was a powerhouse voice - and a trailblazer. A fat woman in entertainment, a single mother, a career girl – but it’s not what she was in her life so much as what she represented to her audience that’s interesting to me.
Celebrities with single names: an academic analysis.
We as a society often hold up celebrities with a single name as the epitome of success as they are evoked as an individual by so little, showing how transcendent they are, but perhaps we are overlooking the inherent paternalistic and racist subtleties of denying a person their full name in the media?