Culture
“A Little Late with Lilly Singh” Has a Code-switching Problem
Lilly Singh is trailblazing as a South Asian woman on late night TV while also dismantling that good work by continuing to perform a Blackness that isn’t hers.
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Hell Is Older People: Aging as the Ultimate Cinematic Horror
Unlike horror-movie fates such as, say, decapitation by paper cutter, aging is the ultimate fright because viewers recognize that they cannot escape it.
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No Good Deeds: “Succession” Rejects the Redemption Arc for Its Ruthless Characters
HBO’s hourlong drama about a Murdoch-inspired family slyly toys with Americans’ impulse to see the good in the worst people, particularly when those people are white.
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Backtalk: So Burning Books is Back?
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into the recent campus conflict when white students with hurt feelings thought it’d be a good idea to burn books written by a visiting author.
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Very Online: Gina Rodriguez, Black People Deserve More Than a Notes App Apology
When celebrities want to apologize, their fans deserve more than a half-hearted screenshot from their Notes app.
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Housebound: Why the Dollhouse Metaphor Remains So Indelible
The dollhouses of today are not, then, miniature playgrounds that train girls to believe their future paths go no further than their front door.
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How @EmoBlackThot Infiltrated Black Women’s Safe Spaces
At times, she seemed too good to be true. And now we know she was: @EmoBlackThot was not our dark-skinned digital big sister; in fact, she wasn’t a sister at all.
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Me Who?: Debbie Harry’s “Face It” and the Challenge of Addressing Outmoded Rape Narratives
The urge to superimpose the cultural context of today on the difficult truths of the past risks erasing them.
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Leah Vernon Won’t Be Hemmed in by the Fashion Industry
The fat, Black, Muslim, blogger speaks truth to power on her Instagram account, in her new book, and in this raw, honest interview.
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Uneasy Spirits: Black Vengeance in Supernatural Pop Culture
There’s a specter in our midst, and it’s white people’s projection of their own guilt and fear onto the Black search for justice.
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