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This story is a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. The Emmy-nominated Showtime series Yellowjackets follows the same storyline that so many survival shows and movies eventually, inevitably, follow: a dystopian hellscape of backstabbing, treachery, murder...
These reviews are a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. By Adedoyin “Ade” Adeniji There are plenty of reasons to wonder why Americans are so obsessed with true crime. Theories about this obsession abound on the internet. Some people suggest...
During one of my routine channel surfs, I land on A&E. The episode is on. I catch it just at the beginning where the falling snow seems to fluoresce under a streetlight, the victim’s jacket askew on top of the snow, in some field, next to another field, next to a rundown house. I can still feel the cold trigger warm on my finger and how upset I was that...
This essay is a part of pop justice, Scalawag’s newsletter exploring the intersection of popular culture and justice—namely through abolition. Sign up here. The fourth-ever episode of the long-running “true crime” show Snapped introduces “a twisted tale of sex, betrayal, and cold-blooded murder.” Elena Kiejliches, a Russian immigrant...