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This TikTokker Has Your Next Queer Rom Com Reading Rec

Laynie Rose
by Sarah Stark
February 25, 2022 at 9:43am
“It’s Gay and It Slaps” 
TikTok star Addison Rae, who is tan and white with brown hair, bites her fingernail and grimaces at the camera.

Viral Vultures: The Plight of Black TikTok Creatives

by Gloria Oladipo
April 2, 2021 at 9:06am
It’s not just about Addison Rae. Read more »
An apple with the text, “what I eat in a day.”

Very Online: TikTok Has Embraced Pro-Eating Disorder Content in Quarantine

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
August 7, 2020 at 12:28pm
TikTok itself is also encouraging this behavior by promoting ads that encourage weight loss. Read more »
collage image of screenshots from different TikTok users in the service industry

Memes to an End: Making the Case for the Living Wage on TikTok

by Nicole Froio
March 25, 2020 at 9:00am
Customer-service workers are sick of being abused and devalued, and while their skits are funny, they’re also communicating a shift that needs to happen in a society that prides itself as progressive. Read more »
Kiera Please, a Black woman, scrunches her face in a mirror selfie. She wears Pokemon pajamas and a yellow beanie.

We Aren’t Alone: On TikTok, Black Girls Find Visibility—And Racist Hate

by Natelegé Whaley
February 3, 2020 at 4:36pm
Gen Z and millennial Black women content creators say the newly popular lip-sync app empowers their voices, but they still face the same misogynoir as their progenitors. Read more »
A photo of Officer Anthony Johnson (@ohnoitsdapopo) on TikTok. He is dancing in front of his cop car while in uniform.

Social Media as Image Management: How Cops Are Using TikTok to Distract from Police Brutality

by Lillian Kalish
July 26, 2019 at 12:20pm
While in full gear, an officer tells TikTok users that he’s their new dad, he’ll tuck them into bed, and he’ll and let them stay up late playing video games. Read more »