race and dating
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OWN's Black Love Called Out for The Glaring Absence of Dark-Skinned Black Women in Promo for New Season
The creators of Black Love, an OWN docuseries which says it aims to tell the stories of Black couples and increase representation, spent the weekend fielding backlash from Black Twitter after releasing a promotional trailer in which dark-skinned women were made all but invisible. Released on Friday, the teaser for the fourth season of Black…
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When Your 'Sex Diary' Becomes the Poster Child for Racial Festishizing
Before this morning, I didn’t even know The Cut’s “Sex Diaries” existed. The regular column is essentially an outsourced Sex and the City Carrie Bradshaw piece, inviting anonymous New Yorkers to chronicle their “comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing” sex diaries for a week. Something about it seems vaguely quaint, but whatever. Content is…