Music
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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Petty, Egotistical Barbs Overshadow J. Cole’s Important Message
Holding people, including Black celebrities accountable for their inaction or misguided action, isn’t an attack or an attempt to create undue separation between Black men and Black women.
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Greater Expectations: Through Music, Dua Saleh Nurtures Personal and Political Identity
“My brain was manufacturing new language because I was refusing to be seen as a woman.”
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More Than Stans: Stop Dismissing the K-pop Fandom’s Political Power
Anyone who’s paying attention to how K-pop stans use social media aren’t surprised that they’ve mobilized on behalf of a larger social movement.
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Audible Anger: Women in Rock Validate and Honor Anger
The very emotions rock centers, like anger, desperation, and full-bodied passion, are often weaponized against women.
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Done Searching: Kehlani Powerfully Conquers Growings Pains on New Album
Kehlani has always worn her heart on her sleeve.
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So Wonderful and Warm: In “Watermelon Sugar,” Harry Styles Centers Women’s Euphoria
In “Watermelon Sugar,” women’s sexual bliss is the entire event.
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Leave Summer Walker (And Her Nose) Alone
Instead of condemning Black women, like Summer Walker, who choose to alter their bodies, we should interrogate how the world made their existence in their inherited bodies hostile.
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