Star Wars: The Force Awakens is neither progressive nor feminist

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been praised repeatedly as a feminist breakthrough. The two new protagonists from London, Daisy Ridley (who plays Rey) and John Boyega (who plays Finn), are the two characters to have most updated the franchise towards modern expectations of gender and racial equality. But, where the sequel succeeds on the racial front it stumbles in […]

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