Yeah, that's the part that didn't sit right with me. Like, I appreciate the overall sentiment of her statement, but that part got some serious side-eye from me, honestly.

I saw a picture of her at Carnival and was like, but wait, with that Kardashian feud she has going on, I didn't realize she would have the time to be playing mas. I hope she had a blast. Did she really go on the road in those shoes though?

Yes, just on its own. Plain Milk of Magnesia straight from the bottle. All I do is give the bottle a good shake first.

Yup! Milk of magnesia straight from the bottle to my pits. Odour eliminated!

Oh, this made me want to document my daily routine too!

I tried the baking soda as deodorant thing too, and I started getting scabs and sores in my armpits. Unpleasant. What I swear by now is milk of magnesia. It is the best deodorant I have ever ever used (and I'm saying this as a person who used to be sometimes embarrassingly stinky because I couldn't find a chemical…

I don't know how well acquainted you are with the different parts of speech, but in those posts you linked, female is not being used as a noun, it's being used as an adjective to describe a noun (guard, students, bodies, silencing, activists, etc.). As the article above clearly says, it's the use of the word as a noun,…

I wash with honey too, honey and olive oil, but it was definitely the addition of the turmeric that really changed my skin. And I'm also a fan of henna! After I hennaed my hair the very first time, two of my relatives asked me, "What have you done to your hair? It looks so shiny." I've been hennnaing regularly ever…

I would love to read tips from you and your grandma! I started doing turmeric and honey masks about a year ago and my skin is pretty much the best it's been since I hit puberty. And it's definitely the turmeric that's made the difference; I used to do honey masks before and those were nowhere near as effective.…

A while back I used to go to a Chinese lady for massages (best massages ever, by the way) and she did this too, referring to everyone as 'she'. Or she would start a story with the right pronouns, but as it went on (she was very chatty) and she became more at ease, everyone would gradually become 'she'. I've studied a…

I think "cowardly" has to do with the way he left Janet Jackson high and dry out there on her own after the Great Superbowl Nipple Incident of 2004.

Hello! *waves* I always get a kick out of seeing other Barbadian (or half Barbadian) folk on Jez. Also, I did my PhD in Edinburgh and, weather notwithstanding, Scotland is my favourite place in the world after Barbados. I'm not even kidding. I miss it a lot.

I'm not trying to get into any intra-Caribbean warfare, but holy shit, this comment was hilarious. A sunshine snack packet! Dead with laugh!

Oh, I hope you make a full recovery soon! People I know who've had severe symptoms tell me the pain is like nothing they've ever felt in their lives. Even though I haven't gotten it yet, I figure it's only a matter of time before I do. I travel to a fair number of islands with my job, and ChikV was just causing havoc…

More than 2 weeks! I know people who are still aching months later.

Chikungunya has been running rampant all over the Caribbean this year. Everyone I know has either had it, or knows at least two people who've had it. It was causing quite a public health panic a couple of months ago. I think it's on the decline for now though, and I've been spared so far, despite my failure to use…

Ugh, I really dislike this line of argument where people defend somebody who's accused of racism by saying something like, "Oh, it's not like she's a KKK member," like that's some kind of key racism benchmark and anything less is excusable. Yeah, we know (or at least we're pretty sure) that Iggy isn't going around…

I love you for this. It's perfect ("sometimes when I freestyle, I lose confidence...") and the Conchords make everything better.

Barbadian is the formally correct term. Bajan is a Barbadian/Caribbean colloquialism.

"Rap is not pop, if you call it that, then stop."