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Fiction and Reality in Law & Order: SVU

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One of TV’s longest-running dramas, Law & Order: SVU has had an outsize influence on popular culture. Twenty years in, what is the series’ legacy? Has SVU increased our cultural vocabulary around gendered violence, or encouraged reactionary legal reform and police brutality?

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Never before in the history of the planet has one species caused such monumental environmental upheaval, and been aware of doing so. How do we process the complex emotions that accompany life in the Anthropocene?

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One of TV’s longest-running dramas, Law & Order: SVU has had an outsize influence on popular culture. Twenty years in, what is the series’ legacy? Has SVU increased our cultural vocabulary around gendered violence, or encouraged reactionary legal reform and police brutality?

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