Alexi Chacon

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@Alexic213      

Alexi Chacon is a culture critic, social policy researcher and oral history zealot. He was an inaugural member of the BIPOC Critics Lab where he wrote for The Public, New York Theatre Workshop and Woolly Mammoth Theatre.   His writing has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Body, Theatrely, The Brooklyn Rail and more.

• POSTED January 31, 2023

  
  PBS's Fight the Power Only Tells Half of Hip Hop’s Story
  The four-part series about the genre’s political impact barely acknowledges its failings.
• POSTED October 20, 2022

  
  Prime Video's The Peripheral Is Like a First Draft of Dystopia
  The new series from Westworld's Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy can't make sense of its post-apocalyptic premise.
• POSTED August 12, 2022

  
  Recommended: This Fool on Hulu
  Comedian Chris Estrada flips the script on stories about former gang members in his sharp new comedy.
• POSTED August 10, 2022

  
  How Denise Richards Broke Reality TV For the Better
  Two years later, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.