Okay.... but can we talk about the problematic and racist nature of her performance? Her literal use of people as props? Her association of her newfound sexuality with the traditional codifiers of black female culture, thereby perpetuating the Jezebel stereotype that black women are lewd, lascivious and uncontrollably…

This one time I was in NYC with a college class and we were taking a night to be gross tourists. And the Scientology Center near Times Square was having an open house and one of my friends went in to watch the movie because she wanted to know just how fucking crazy they were. I refused to go in but waited outside to…

The "make-up free" phenomenon is bullshit. It's an extension of the idea that the woman is public property, and that what she does with her body is everyone else's business.

To be fair, this was the first draft of the bio:

MY BOY ROBIN'S WICKET SMAHT.

Can we stop treating this as a zero-sum game? (Addressing some of the responses I'm seeing, not Lindy.) I say this about patriarchy all the time, and I'll say it about weight policing and beauty standards:

"Thin-shaming and fat-shaming are not separate, opposing issues—they are stratifications of the same issue: Patriarchal culture's need to demoralize, distract, and pit women against one another. To keep women shackled by shame and hunger. To keep us obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential. To get…

She has struggled with anorexia! She is no better an example of a "healthy thin" than the stereotypical donut-swallowing-couch-potato is an example of "healthy fat". If the idea is that healthy, beautiful women come in all shapes and sizes, she misses the mark.