Watching and Loving the White, Male “Stranger Things”

Cristina Escobar
LatinaMedia.Co
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6 min readAug 7, 2019

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Stranger Things is a white, male show. Yes, one of the original four boys is black, and yes, there are strong female characters, and yes, for the first time in season three we got a character who is BOTH black and a girl, but the fact remains — this is a show that centers the white, male experience. I don’t normally watch shows like this. I generally prefer to hear from women and people of color —…

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Cristina Escobar
LatinaMedia.Co

Professional feminist. Amateur woman, Chicana, mother, partner.