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Girls and Gays: On the Tenuous Relationship Between Black Women and Queer Black Folk
This past weekend, I was winding down after a fairly long Thanksgiving weekend by engaging in one of my guilty pleasures: The Real Housewives of Atlanta. After a long day, I was ready for some petty, funny mess. What I was not ready for was being blindsided by a transphobic “read.” The read in question?…
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6 Ways to Make Your Thanksgiving as Unproblematic as Possible
Ah, Thanksgiving. Everyone’s favorite official-yet-unofficial holiday. Retailers don’t really know what to do with it, since they tend to jump from a Halloween marketing blitzkrieg straight into Christmas marketing overexposure, but that doesn’t matter right now. All that matters is that Thanksgiving is that in-between holiday that chiefly exists for us to nearly and unabashedly…
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Wakanda Forever: On the Importance of Black Panther
The time has finally come. After waiting 20-odd years (read: my entire life), we are finally on the eve of Black Panther’s arrival. And by “eve,” I mean that finally, Black Panther will be the very next Marvel film to grace our eyeballs. Indeed. Come Feb. 16, 2018, black people across the African Diaspora will…
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Being Insecure in Harvey Weinstein’s World: On Mayim Bialik, Rape and Concern-Trolling
Over the past two weeks on the heels of the Harvey Weinstein travesty, I’ve noticed a trend. And I have a question and am in need of an answer. Why is that some white women are incapable of focusing on a topic without shitting on someone else? I say this because I thought I was…
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#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism
For once … I’d like to be wrong. For once, I’d like white feminists to not be so damn predictable. For once, I’d like white feminists to prove me wrong and do the complete opposite of what I expect them to do. For once, I’d like them to deviate from their typical play where they…
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Watch: On Chadwick Boseman, Marshall and Tokenism in Hollywood
On Oct. 13, Marshall, which stars the likes of Chadwick Boseman and Sterling K. Brown and is directed by Reginald Hudlin, will be making its debut in theaters. Usually I’d be super pumped at the idea of those names being attached (together) to a huge project like this. But in this case? I’m barely whelmed…
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You Ain’t Got the Juice: Why Arrow Has No Business Addressing #BlackLivesMatter
In 2017 the TV landscape, despite the persistent whiteness of some networks like CBS, is looking a bit more … colorful. We certainly have heavy hitters like Shonda Rhimes and Ava DuVernay to thank for this, as their creations are sorely needed, especially as we dwell under the “leadership” (gag me) of the despotic Orange.…
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Alt-White: On How White People Use Language to Deny the Existence of White Supremacy
Somewhere in the good ol’ book, there’s a saying that goes, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Now, I’m about six years removed from my last Sunday school class, but I’m pretty sure this concept also applies to a fairly old concept: Language. Now, I am not here to recount the origins of language…
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Taylor Swift and the Tale of Unstoppable White Privilege Meeting Immovable White Privilege
I’ll be honest. I thought it was going to be a boring-ass week—until Taylor Swift “surprise”-dropped her new single from her next album, “Reputation,” this past Friday. And, you know, everyone acted as expected, mostly. Taylor’s detractors fried her accordingly. Half of her stans pretended to like the single, because that is the cross they…
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Sofia Coppola’s Blatant Erasure of Black Women in The Beguiled Highlights How White Women Are Complicit in White Supremacy
It’s been quite a busy couple of months for white women. After 53 percent of them handed Donald Trump the election at the conclusion of 2016, they have turned the nonsense up to 11. From going on redemption tours where they cry into the arms of black men in order to breathe life into floppin’…
