Thanks to cultural appropriation, Aretha Franklin transcended categories dividing us - WHYY
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Her entire career was a testimony to the wondrous mixtape of America itself. She stands as a rebuke to cultural police who try to prevent that type of border-crossing.
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Appreciating Aretha
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Kader Attia
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No, Trans People Are Not Trying to Cancel Aretha Franklin
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IP Social Justice in the Political Economy: Engaging Activism
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Now Aretha Franklin's song Natural Woman is deemed OFFENSIVE to
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Beyond Compassion
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Ruminations on the (Black) womanist power of Aretha Franklin
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Aretha Franklin 'Natural Woman' diss was 'satire,' trans 'activists' now
Bleaching Our Roots: Race and Culture in American Popular Music
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Aretha Franklin's 'Natural Woman' blasted by fake trans group
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APPROPRIATING CONFUSION
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