Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Slater and Zack are in a serious discussion by the lockers. Slater points to himself. The caption reads, “We need to rethink our notions of manhood and womanhood.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Zack is in the locker room holding a microphone to his mouth. He is carrying recording equipment, and he is addressing a girl with a hand on her hip, a look of disbelief on her face (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “White people benefit from the privileges accrued from racist exploitation, past and present, and are therefore accountable for changing and transforming white supremacy and racism.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Kelly and Jessie face each other in a serious conversation. The caption reads, “Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slater sit beside each other in a booth at a public restaurant. Slater is grinning at Jessie, squeezing her cheeks with his left hand. She is looking at him in annoyance. The caption reads, “The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slater listen to Lisa who is pointing at herself. The caption reads, “Our struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie and Slate look up from the books contemplatively. The caption reads, “Consider the possibility that to love Blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order that the punishment is death.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. The six friends are gathered in a bedroom. They are all listening to Lisa speaking. They wear colorful clothes and have serious expressions on their face. Screech has his face pressed against a pillow, and Slater is holding the ceramic bust of Elvis Presley. The caption reads, “Our contemporary crisis is created by a lack of meaningful access to truth.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Slater stands between Jessie and Kelly. Everyone is wearing gym gear and looking into the camera. Slater is grinning and pointing at both women with his thumbs. The caption reads “When women are talked about, the focus tends to be on white women.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Screech stands at the front door, holding it open. Zack faces him, pointing at him accusingly, and holding a yellow duffel bag. The caption reads “In fascist regimes, teaching populations to fear terrorism is one way the system garners support.”
Image description: In a classroom, Screech sits behind Lisa. He’s looking at her with a soft expression and a small smile. Lisa is looking toward her left with an expression of frustration and wondering. A Do Not Enter sign is leaning against the wall behind them. The caption reads “In all spheres of literary writing and academic scholarship, works by women had historically received little or no attention as a consequence of gender discrimination.”
Image description: Zack and Slater are wearing colorful shirts, smiling, and patting themselves on the back. The caption reads “I have often listened to groups of students tell me that racism really no longer shapes the contours of our lives.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Jessie, Lisa, and Kelly are standing in front of a row of lockers. Jessie and Kelly are listening to Lisa who is speaking emphatically, her hands raised slightly (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “Many feminist film critics continue to structure their discourse as though it speaks about women when in actuality it only speaks about white women.”
Image description: A still image from the 90’s TV sitcom Saved By The Bell. Lisa and a friend are at a slumber party, wearing pajamas. Lisa is holding her hands up in excitement, and she is smiling as she talks to someone off camera (interpretation of scene my own). The caption reads, “I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or someone else’s ignorance.”
