theory & essay
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#OscarsSoWhite That Even Their Feminism Is Translucent
So, the Oscars were a thing that happened yesterday. I’ll be honest, I turned it off about 30 minutes after the red carpet fashion show – Neil Patrick Harris joked about how white the audience was and everyone laughed at acknowledging their privilege in a way that was too “yes I’m an asshole but at…
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Zoe Saldana And Lupita Nyong'o Need To Make A Movie Together
And this movie needs to be titled “OMFG DID YOU SEE ZOE AND LUPITA LAST NIGHT???” And it needs to star Zoe Saldana and Lupita Nyong’o. And whoever the hell else wants to be in it because whoever the hell else wants to be in it doesn’t matter as long as Zoe Saldana and Lupita…
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Why Cicely Tyson Combing Viola Davis's Hair On HTGAWM Was The Blackest Thing I've Ever Seen This Week
I am convinced there is a writer — or, perhaps, a group of writers — on the How to Get Away with Murder staff whose sole job is to think of and craft the single Blackest scene they can possibly film that week while maintaining the show’s integrity. Perhaps their job title is ‘Blackness Grip”…
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Pictures Of A Beautiful 33-Year-Old Black Woman Look Like Pictures Of A Beautiful 33-Year-Old Black Woman
I’m not going to pretend to not know why this story is a story. Beyonce is Beyonce. And seeing less than flawless images of a woman who’s known for being so perpetually and publicly flawless that she unironicially created two versions of a song called “Flawless” — a song that, if created by literally anyone else (including an actual flawless person…
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Every Conversation I've Ever Had With A Woman Who Prefers Much Older Men
“So, I’ve noticed you seem to prefer to date guys who are quite a few years older than you.” “Define quite a few.” “Stop it. You know what I mean. Whichever age discrepancy officially makes the man an older man. For a 19 year old woman, an older man would be a 26 year old…
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 509 Recap: Spoke When Spoken To
Apparently we’ve reached the maximum threshold for a character on a Mona Scott show to be presented as reasonable within a season arc, because Yandy Smith was mainlining haterade. Yandy was suspicious of a woman named Remy that Myanmar had hired to be an assistant of his management company – to which I ask, who…
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My Dad, The Man
Much of what I’ve published in the past four years was written while sitting in the Bakery Square Panera Bread. There was a time when I lived three blocks away, so it was a convenient drive to make when writing from home got too monotonous. And, even after moving across town to share a place with my now-wife,…
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The Lightskinned Revolution Will Be Televised During All-Star Weekend
Saturday night, at approximately 10pm EST, Kyrie Irving was competing in the final round of the 2015 three point contest. The other contestants? The “Splash Brothers” — Golden State Warriors guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson; a duo doing the exact same thing to the NBA in 2015 that Al B. Sure and Christopher Williams…
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Things Learned After Buying My Wife A Bunch Of Flowers And Shit
(Disclaimer: I’m aware there are people who think that, since getting married, I’ve dedicated the bulk of my writing to marriage-related topics. I’m also aware that some of these people are tired of me writing about marriage-related topics. If I were the type of person who said things like “You know, out of the 142…