Kind of reminds me of Oscar Romero, the Arch-Bishop of San Salvador who condemned El Salvador’s death squads.

This is so sad and a bit shocking since I was just beginning to learn about Marielle Franco. Seems to me she was the embodiment of the Black Lives Matter idea. At a time when army troops are being deployed to areas like the one she represented, and for her to continue demanding accountability in terms of police…

I am so saddened to read this, but not shocked or surprised, which only saddens me more. I can say rest in power and that her spirit will live on, which are both true. But DAMN, I can only shudder to think what she could have done if she had a chance to LIVE in power instead. Thanks for this.

Seriously? If we’ve learned anything from Buffy S6 is that you don’t bring things back from the dead...

I enjoyed it. I just wish that they had left out the subplot with the girl next door and showed a regular day of school for Meg. She was so very intelligent and challenged authority in the books (refusing to do her math homework the way her teachers wanted because she knew easier shortcuts) that you don’t really see…

I loved this movie so much. I enjoyed the book as a girl, and it worked for me on that level. More than anything, though, it felt like a love letter to my 13-year-old self: another biracial girl with a Black mom and an absent dad, who hated her hair and glasses and thought she would never be good enough. It was so, so…

I can’t wait to see it. Fox News has been trying very hard, if my newsfeed is any indication, to publicize the bad reviews. What I hope is, this is a kids’ movie for anyone who has sufficient imagination to be transported to the Wrinkle in Time world, and the trailer alone is enough to tell me it’s worth it!

Everyone is of course entitled to his or her own opinion; both Roxane Gay and Colin Kaepernick – as well as Ryan Coogler – would beg to differ with yours.

My kid had one of those feelings and told our family about it. We all remained on alert about this guy. He ended up approaching and semi-stalking my kid for a whole school year. He worked at the school and they kept him there for my kid’s entire sophomore year, no matter how much we protested.

I never noticed (until today) that in the infamous Night and Day performance that he gooses Denise and runs off right at the end of the song. I wonder how often she had to put up with stuff like that.

I always tell my kids- listen to those feelings when you have them about someone, especially an adult. Sometimes in life, we meet people who seem perfectly fine and everyone else seems to know them and like them, but they give you a yucky feeling deep inside and you won’t always know why. Listen to that feeling and…

THIS.

In retrospect, Lisa Bonet comes off a lot like Winona Ryder where yeah she had her own (very normal for a girl in her 20s) stuff going on, but most of her reputation for being difficult was actually just them being super weirded out by normalized abuse.

Meanwhile in the 80s those Golden Girls were buying condoms in bulk.

Hit by a car on the way to the abortion clinic, like in Party of Five!

I’m an old (was an adult during the 80's. This was the very accepted, family-friendly norm to present the sexuality of a young woman on TV. She was a good girl (aka a virgin) being seduced by the dark side. Or she did a bad thing (had sex) and had a very bad outcome (got pregnant). Then she contemplates an abortion…

Looking back on it, you can see the red flag in Cosby’s hyper-fixation on virginity. For example, when Denise elopes and comes home, Cliff asks his new son-in-law if his daughter was a virgin on their wedding night. When the SIL confirmed she was, Cliff has this creepy grin on his face. (I think it was meant to be…

Off topic but I was just thinking about James Avery and how great a father figure he was for us teens of color. To all accounts he was equally great off set. I guess I just want to say screw Bill Cosby. Uncle Phil should get more love than he does.

I have been thinking very deeply about the nature of open-heartedness and logic. I believe that people who claim to be on the side of social justice and then argue in their own interests with logical invulnerability deserve a wide berth. My own ex-husband was a stone cold feminist. He could site bell hooks forward and…

The Grammys are good for no one. It celebrates mediocrity in all of its ugly forms. Even the people that complain about (so and so didn’t get it, but deserved it) are still almost always based on what they like and not actual technical merit. The real innovators almost never get recognized in their prime. They get…