Culture
Samantha Irby on “Wow, No Thank You” and Desanitizing Women’s Lives and Bodies
Samantha Irby will make you cringe as hard as you laugh.
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Of Course We’re Attracted to Chaotic TV Shows Right Now
Though this seems to be a counterintuitive phenomenon, it appears we’re all turning to anxiety-inducing TV in these exceptionally anxiety-inducing times.
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Truth Hurts: Fat, Black, and Too Good to Cancel
In every industry Black women have to work four times as hard for less than half the credit.
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Love the Hard Way: Reflecting on the Magnificence of “The Bluest Eye”
“Ugliness,” one of the novel’s running themes, is examined under an unforgiving spotlight because it’s such a familiar experience for young Black girls.
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Very Online: “Karen” Isn’t a Slur—It’s a Critique of Entitled White Womanhood
A Karen’s racism is inextricable from her white womanhood.
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Sunday Best: The Beauty and Timelessness of Black Adornment Rituals
Fashion rituals are a set of acts, an unwritten code of survival, that are passed down from generation to generation.
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Laugh at My Pain: Finding the Humor in Being a “Black Widow”
Grief is a thing that will live, in some way, in our DNA and our body and be triggered by the wrong song or the wrong turn down the street where you see someone that looks like the person you lost.
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Fixed It For You!: The COVID-19 Pandemic is Not a “Cozy Catastrophe”
Admit it: The coronavirus apocalypse is actually kind of fun for you (if you don’t give a shit about other people).
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Staying Soft: Megan Giddings Explores the Hypervigilance of Black Women in “Lakewood”
The participants—nearly all people of color—break bones and lose teeth to help advance the future of science and healthcare.
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“Crip Camp” Brings Visibility to the History of Disabled Activists
There are no human rights without disability rights, and Camp Jened produced many of the feisty activists that took on this fight.
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