I am from the Tropics. It is 25ºC where I am right now, and I just put on a second layer of clothing because I’m finding it a tad chilly. But when I was at university in Ontario, on sunny winter days when it went up to +2º I would be swanning about campus in a t-shirt, talking about how lovely the weather was. All of…

This image look so weird and patched together. Like a badly pasted together Vanity Fair gatefold cover. It all looks just a little... off. 

Thank Jez for introducing me to this show. I like how all the women on the show have a distinctive style. Azusa Babazono’s style is not my kind of thing personally, but I love her commitment to her look. All those prints and ribbons! I adore.  

I found the specific reference to his “big fat *black* dick” to be gross and fetishizing and unpleasant. But great for Offset’s ego, I guess. 

Ugh. Kinja’d. Double-post, sorry.

She’s the first trans woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant.

I didn’t know she liked to be referred to as a song stylist, but it is a perfectly suited description. She could take a song and turn it into a whole story, in a way that no other singer I can think of could do.  

Nicole Kidman also dated Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest (RIP Phife Dawg). I can see Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz as a couple, but Nicole Kidman and Q-Tip still boggles my mind a bit.  

Right? His singing is fine, but saying “Ed Sheeran is successful ... because his songs are hits” is like saying “Ed Sheeran is successful because he has achieved a lot of success”. It doesn’t really explain anything.

I read that book and I didn’t think Jim Jones started off with genuinely good intentions at all. I think his intentions were always to glorify himself and to amass a following of disciples who would worship him and treat him like a god. I think he was operating from egotistical motives right from the very start, and…

I didn’t realize until I read Jeff Gunn’s The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple that the majority of the people who died at Jonestown were black people, poor black people, elderly black people, and black children. That book convinced me (although that wasn’t its intention) that Jim Jones was an evil man…

The parts with Evan and Ashlee were for sure awkward, but I let that pass because I found the parts with Tracee alone (i.e. everything else) to be a delight. I think the E&A appearances feel even more like a desperate bid for relevance watching it now, what with their reality show and all, but at the time I barely…

The only one of these I’ve watched (and I haven’t watched many, I’ll admit) that didn’t make me cringe was the one with Tracee Ellis Ross. She made it sound natural, her chemistry with the interviewer was great, and it was so much fun to watch. It was the first one I ever saw, and I thought they were all like this, so…

I saw those photos on Beyoncé’s Instagram and didn’t realise that was her dad. I even read the caption about loved ones and was like “well he must be close to her somehow....” but I totally didn’t recognize him with less hair and mustache.

Just last week I learned that Bryan Adams set up a charitable foundation that is supporting environmental conservation in the Caribbean (where I live) as well as other great humanitarian work all over the world. He even takes the time to personally visit the projects that the Foundation funds. Because of this I have…

I don’t disagree with you on this. I think an argument can be made for changing the uniform to something less prone to fetishization (shirt and trousers, maybe), but I still don’t think it’s a persuasive argument for banning school uniforms altogether.

Yup. I have pictures of my aunts in the 70s in extremely short uniform skirts. When I was in school boys were wearing their pants super baggy, more recently they’ve been wearing them as skinny as they can get away with; girls used to wear multiple pairs of socks because thick, high socks were in, then the trend was…

I’m not convinced that the findings of this study make a particularly strong case against school uniforms. The point is taken that girls feel that being in uniform makes them a target, but I do think that adult men who engage in street harassment will harass young girls whether they’re wearing school uniforms with…

“...she revealed her nominees for the Tennessee Senate”

The Diet Prada side-by-side comparisons were fun to see. And the question mark at the end of that quote from The Cut is beautifully savage.