A HuffPost series on the pop culture that unlocked something in us, helped us fit in, taught us something or became an entry point to something bigger.
HuffPost senior culture reporter Marina Fang describes "teaching" pop culture to herself — and eventually turning it into a career.
After school, I would skip past my usual Nickelodeon cartoons and turn to the coolest channel I knew: MTV.
How one song changed the entire course of my life and gave me the strength to be someone I thought I could never be.
"It horrified me that a person whose art had helped me during dark times was not offered the grace and compassion she needed during her own."
I couldn’t understand the message of Alice Walker’s work until I grew into Black womanhood.
I related to Tess McGill as I struggled in a high-powered world that would eventually shut me out.
The landmark comedy about a fictional spy was integral to my story and the kind of shows I want to make.
“I had spent my entire life dwelling so intensely in my imagination that it started becoming an unhelpful coping mechanism.”
"I was leading a double life as an American at school and a Greek in the evenings and on weekends."
The Hulu series offers a representation that often goes unnoticed.
Twenty years after its release, "The Lizzie McGuire" actor's debut album still speaks to the inner teen in these women.
"In my father's absence, I needed to see Black men caring for their families, protecting them, showing up, dancing with their grandchildren at family reunions."
Introducing a new HuffPost series on the pop culture that unlocked something in us, helped us fit in, taught us something or became an entry point to something bigger.