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‘White Girl’ Review: An Unflinching Look at Young White Privilege in Gentrified NYC
‘White Girl’ Review: An Unflinching Look at Young White Privilege in Gentrified NYC
‘White Girl’ Review: An Unflinching Look at Young White Privilege in Gentrified NYC
As soon as I left the theater, still shaken from Elizabeth Wood’s ‘White Girl,’ I Googled the title of the film see what else the filmmaker has done. My finger must have slipped on the Google Search recommendations, as the results for “white girl wasted” popped up. I looked down at the Urban Dictionary definition highlighted at the top, a description that only just begins to capture the perilous, infantile destruction frequently found among, and willingly created by, a demographic often found at New York City bars and clubs.