insecure

  • Insecure Highlights the Double Standard of Sexual Fluidity

    Sunday night’s episode of Insecure had to be one of the best in the series so far. The HBO show does well painting a picture of what it means to be a modern-day single black woman dating in Los Angeles, while examining topics of racism, sexism and microaggressions not only in the dating scene but…

  • Watch: Insecure Is Lit 

    To let Issa Rae tell it, her new HBO series, Insecure, is lit AF. We’d have to agree. Similar to her breakout web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Insecure explores themes familiar to millennials, but from the black perspective. And note that there is no singular black experience. “This is not going to be…

  • Is Insecure Preying on Black Women’s Insecurities?  

    I may lose some friends over this. In fact, I may lose friends, followers, respect and possibly even my “black card” (which, apparently, has been under review since I dared address the Nate Parker issue). Which is unfortunate, since being black is one of my favorite things, and one of my favorite things about being…

  • Issa Rae’s Insecure: No Longer an Awkward Black Girl

    In the words of Ron Burgundy, Issa Rae is kind of a big deal. The awkward black girl has gone from creating and starring in an award-winning web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, to creating and starring in the half-hour HBO comedy Insecure, about two friends “navigating the tricky and personal terrain of…

  • 10 Things We Can’t Wait to See in the New TV Season

    Every year around this time, the big four broadcast networks­—ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox (I don’t count the CW, since it dropped Girlfriends)—make a big deal of trotting out their new shows for the fall TV season. And while many network executives seem to have gotten the memo about diversity­—except, apparently, CBS, whose president has…