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While the camera is objectifying her body to invoke a sexual response in male viewers, Lara Croft still defies the expectations of women in action films.

People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.

The film's Incluvie rating is off the charts. It features Black, Muslim, queer, trans humans whose moms hold them up, fight for them, and love them for who they are...making anything possible.

I understand that this would have been consistent with the language used by that generation, due to its role in the medical profession, however as someone who has family members with Down Syndrome I took it very personally.

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.

Summit Station, the longest running lesbian bar in Ohio, was one of the places that made lesbian community possible.