Music
With “WAP,” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Honor Women’s Pleasure
“WAP” is a reclamation.
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If You Want to Protect Black Women, Start with Megan Thee Stallion
“Protect Black women” is floating around social media, but there’s a more powerful sentiment that Black women are undeserving of being shielded from violence.
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Stinging Stans: Swifties Doxxing Journalists Is Just the Beginning
People don’t really know what to think about fangirls or teenage girls in general.
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Streaming Isn’t Music’s Magic Bullet
Independent artists are reckoning with what it means to work on their own terms in an industry that’s increasingly led by a small number of billion-dollar data and tech companies.
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Does Taylor Swift Have to Be Queer for “folklore” to be a Lesbian Album?
Longing is, after all, queer.
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On “Bad Vacation,” Liza Anne Finds Community in Vulnerability
“I feel like everything is just paused and repeated in this expansive yet really calming state of learning to love and to be loved.”
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Haim’s “Women in Music Pt. III” Gets a Little Darker
Haim is pressing pause on their sunshine-y, Fleetwood Mac aesthetic.
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Smoke Signal: Building the Past, the Present, and the Afrofuture
Today’s Afrofuturist art blurs the lines between present and future, fact and fiction, and fantasy and reality.
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Cultural Disruptors: City Girls Flip Misguided Stereotypes into Their Superpower
City on Lock is their ethos at its finest—taking the stereotypes stacked against them as bold, Black women who demand good sex and long money, and flipping them into their super power.
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Sound Out: Coming Home to Lavender Country
Queer country artists have been making their voices known for decades.
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