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Breaking Up With Social Media Is an Act of Self-Care
I deactivated my Twitter and Facebook three months ago. I told myself it was because I needed to concentrate on writing, and social media provided too many opportunities to distract and distance myself from the work. I’m compulsive and obsessive by nature, so once I’m into something, it takes a lot of work not to…
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The Only Thing Worse Than a ‘Pick Me’ Is Bragging About Being a ‘He Picked Me for Less’
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and with it, a flurry of marriage proposals will flood your social media timelines. Be ready. Your Facebook cousins ended 2017 in grand style with an argument about rings, which they will surely resurrect. An alleged Kay Jewelers ad for a $24.99 engagement ring had married and single women…
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10 New Year’s Resolutions Everybody Sucks at Keeping That Have Nothing to Do With Losing Weight
New Year’s resolutions are fun. They’re also notoriously hard to sustain, and ultimately we only come up with them because other people do and we hate it when we’re at dinner and going around the table and we don’t have shit to say. So here are things many of us say that we know aren’t…
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Watch: Rhoda ‘On the Scene’ Young Talks Internet Fame and Going Viral
Hopefully you’re not sleeping under a rock, because if you are, you may have missed the greatest thing on the internet since Sweet Brown, Antoine Dodson or the Bella Noche girls. Rhoda Young, a Norfolk, Va., resident, is on a mission to always be “on the scene in this bitch.” Earlier this month, Young posted…
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Draya Is Being Dragged for Being a Bad Mother … and I Hate It
Black women are hauled over the white-hot coals of racism and sexism on the regular, in real life and especially online, where the trolls spew their anonymous venom. We’re called everything from ugly to “cum dumpsters.” White men call us far worse. Even the president of the United States has gotten in on it. And…
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Back on Their Bullshit: Facebook Suspends Accounts of Women Who Call Men ‘Trash’
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, Facebook is banning female users for posting comments like “men are scum” and “men are trash”—even if the statements are ironic or humorous. A new article by the Daily Beast looks specifically at women who have found themselves banned from the platform, but the criticism around Facebook’s views…
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#ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies Is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year on Social Media
Every year on social media, there’s one hashtag you can count on to bring joy and laughter. #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies is the absolute truth when it comes to the struggles of celebrating the holiday. And this year is no exception. On Tuesday, Michael Harriot gave everyone a step-by-step guide to a black family Thanksgiving, and some of…
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Tech’s Whiteness Is the Problem. Are We the Solution?
Last week, Twitter said it was “pausing” to reconsider the process by which it bestows the blue check mark denoting accounts that had been “verified,” and on Wednesday the company announced that it was yanking the designation from some users who occupy the neo-Nazi or nationalist bucket of grassroots white activism. The announcements came after…
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Bossip Smashes Twitter’s Tender Cakes to Smithereens With Their Hilarious Headlines
Listen, I don’t know what Bossip’s editorial team is on, but I’d like for them to pass it my way. There is no publication like gossip-news giant Bossip. It’s 2017, so it’s safe to assume that you’ve been to Bossip’s website, followed it on social media or seen the wordy and deliciously insulting headlines creep…
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When a Breakdown Is Public (or, That Time My Mom Was on WorldStarHipHop)
Theodora Marie is my mother. She is one-half of an identical twinship forged in Grandmother’s womb some 66 years ago. Teddie is a fiery Sagittarius, an old-school nationalist and my very first love. My mother is a slight woman, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 110 pounds, but her mouth? Gargantuan. Her heart? Titan. If…
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