Also, are you Cate Cate, the Cate I referenced? Because if so, I’m a big fan!

I get the argument about black hypervisibility and completely agree that there is hyper-attention to black thought and expression beyond black people’s control. But I don’t get the argument about the invisibility of other POC vis-a-vis politics and protest as something wilful.

This attitude has the same blinders on it as people who celebrated Frank Ocean for finally bringing queer content to R&B while ignoring the many queer hip-hop and R&B artists (particularly those of color) who have been making work and ignored for decades. The “accompanying consequences” for them have been erasure and…

Say it again!

Well, he’s “the first Black president” because he himself identifies as black, and that’s been a big part of his identity as his memoirs and talks prior to entering the national stage have indicated. As the study shows, identity isn’t just genetic or something you “are,” but a function of identification (by yourself…

I’ve had similar experiences (though as a gay man). There’s an interesting interaction between blackness and American privilege abroad. It’s something like a kind of accessible or benign exoticness that leaves you open to brazen advances that feel like objectification. I brought it up to someone who was making me feel…

And Messy Mya at the beginning, I believe. Nothing but love, everywhere.

But I loved that she included the actual voices of actual queer POC in the song and video to cite her sources. Turnitin.com says yaaaasssss!

But, like, why do movie trailers include things like “5-time Academy Award winner Joe Blow” or “Oscar-nominated actor So-and-So”? We don’t see people walking around for the rest of their careers talking about “National Merit Finalist Bob Lob” because the recognition stops mattering, having been replaced by other, more…

Love the song and love the thoughts expressed here. This is a song about a white guy speaking to a predominantly white audience about important social issues through trying to come to terms with his privilege. It’s clever. To me this is Allyism 101 and much more sincere than skipping the self-reflection and trying to…

Absolutely. And is especially insidious because you’re being asked to express not only acceptance, but deference and appreciation to the very thing that’s the source of your struggle. Batshit kinds of psychological contortions.

Thank you for this. As a minority who attended a peer of Yale’s, I can’t tell you how damaging the “shut up and be grateful” ended up being to me in the long run. The idea that everyone just shows up at an Ivy and has their life made is so far from the truth, but no amount of experience-sharing seems to override the…

I wondered why that had happened! Thanks, now I can start piecing back together some of the dignity I lost trying to explain my love for “this cool Australian trio Rurfurs.”

If I don’t move, they can’t see me.

Are we really comparing a sport whose networks and highest honors have been locked up in country clubs for more than a century and field/arena sports? And how men’s and women’s sports have evolved differently? The audiences for and expectations of players are entirely different between sports associated with the elite…

Blink blink. Blink blink blink. Blink. But no amount of tears washing across the eyes could drain away the monstrosity.

I forsake both #TeamKitten and #TeamPuppy in the name of #TeamAcorn for the Cuteness Bowl. I would read any listicle with cute seeds and saplings in it. Wook at its fwoppy wittle weaves!