Slay Anything: Is Beyonce Beyond Criticism?

Beyoncé's recent music video, "Formation," offered a stunning kaleidoscope of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina imagery: Beyoncé lying atop a New Orleans police car as it sinks into an abandoned street flooded with water, she and her dance troupe shimmying in an empty pool, a child clad in a Mardi Gras Indian costume. It incorporates scenes from Abteen Bagheri's short film on bounce culture, That B.E.A.T., its twerking dancers helping create "Formation"'s glorious vision of poly-g