A HuffPost series on the pop culture that unlocked something in us, helped us fit in, taught us something or became an entry point to something bigger.
HuffPost senior culture reporter Marina Fang describes "teaching" pop culture to herself — and eventually turning it into a career.
After school, I would skip past my usual Nickelodeon cartoons and turn to the coolest channel I knew: MTV.
How one song changed the entire course of my life and gave me the strength to be someone I thought I could never be.
"Like many queer men before me, 'The Wizard of Oz' became a life raft."
“I expected a lot of things when I started the novel … but I didn’t think it would feel culturally relevant in 2023.”
"Her songs spoke to me about my own life in a language I instantly understood. It was like every light in every gloomy room in my body suddenly came on."
The children's movie tells a terribly sad and wonderful tale, with lessons on loss that everyone can learn from.
The show's magic lay in recognizing that kids are human beings with profound and complex emotions.
"I’d learned 'girl' was a derogatory term if weaponized correctly. I knew I was a girl; was I the wrong kind of girl?"
Many readers are back to meeting in person after being forced to embrace Zoom book clubs during the pandemic.
“I no longer wanted to be part of organizations that perpetuated judgment, homophobia, hypocrisy and discouragement of critical thought.”
"When 'Gilmore Girls' premiered, I reveled in the fact that I already had the Lorelai to my Rory."
Introducing a new HuffPost series on the pop culture that unlocked something in us, helped us fit in, taught us something or became an entry point to something bigger.
