You're listening to it's been a minute from NPR, I'm BA Parker.

These past few months, I feel like I've been watching these really involved stories

about families of color, finding ways to heal the generational wounds,

or to see their ancestors as people.

From the animated films in Conto, and Turning Red,

to the recent miniseries Miss Marvel,

when movie like this that really struck me is everything everywhere I want.

The story is about a mother played by Michelle Yo, who travels across the multiverse to save her daughter,

and discovers different versions of her family.

These stories are harmed mostly by millennials of color.

And court, the idea of them is a bad parents, who apologizes eventually, and that apology kind of fixes everything.

That's Emily St. James, an entertainment critic, at Vox.

She writes about how family relationships,

queerness, and the trans experience are portrayed on screen.

And recently, she wrote about the subgenre I'm talking about,

which she calls the millennial parent apology fantasy.

One of the things I think marks it as a subgenre is it's very interested in questions of intersectionality.

It's interested in questions of how does bad parenting,

how does that intersect with the immigrant experience,

how does that intersect with race, how does that intersect with queerness,

and then also an interesting intergenerational trauma.

Emily and I talk about the shift and perspective in the way families are portrayed,

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