dr. mcmillan cottom has written a really good really long essay about dolly parton
posted to lemmy

Really interesting about how this centers on what Dolly means to people now, rather than on what she has meant to people -- my mother felt very strongly about her working-class feminism and how people looked down on her -- while acknowledging that the two are barely related.
This digs real deep into the lenses on Dolly that come from race and gender. I would only have liked to read more material on class, too--but it's already pretty long so you can't cover everything.
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