Hearing the words of the Somali poet Warsan Shire “creeped [you] out”. Okay.

Basically there are two camps. Black women who love the performance and understand the depth and white “feminists” who are basically calling her uppity. Obviously there are some legit allies who understand and Black folks who are over it so I know I’m being reductive but that’s just kinda how it feels reading all the…

An important thing to remember: the “altar of motherhood” in American culture has never included black motherhood. Black mothers have been vilely denigrated by our culture. This is what it looks like when we elevate black motherhood to the same level as white motherhood.

Aside from being Adele’s third-best album, the Album of the Year award is supposed to “honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position.” This includes production, songwriting, structure etc; divorcing Lemonade from its…

Who says Black women don’t support people who are not Beyonce? This is an out-of-left-field criticism that makes no sense. Beyonce won another award...so that means Black women don’t support anyone else? Ok...

I haven’t seen anyone say Beyonce is the first or only Black woman to talk about her pain, so this criticism is weird to me.

This is a bad opinion.

You clearly don’t understand that freely procreating and celebrating and keeping your family together is a privilege that is new for black folks in America.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems your argument boils down to a judgement of how a pregnant woman should act. So MIA was acting the right way by not drawing attention to her pregnancy and Beyonce was acting the wrong way by making it a central part of her performance? I’m not comfortable with that kind of…

“I think it can cloud this issue of this being about black motherhood, or just about Beyonce.” Beyonce is a black mother. So....

THIS. Motherfucking this. Stop it. Black is enough. Oh, you think you can relate? Terrific. That’s not what makes it great. Greatness exists whether white folks can “get” it or not.

Yes I did.

So it’s Beyonce’s fault that you have a skewed perception of how Black women don’t support female artists? Because I see Black women supporting Black female artists ALL THE TIME. Where are you even looking?

I guess that depends. Are you black?

All of this. I am here for this elevation of the femininity of black women. I am also here for this grand celebration of motherhood, especially black motherhood, in the time of black lives matters. Maybe I’m reading a lot into it, but I am here for the over-the-top celebration of black femininity because for too long,…

I just saw a whole bunch of beautiful (mostly) brown women on stage being ethereal and lovely and it was a balm to my beleaguered black soul. Beyonce vocally and visually demonstrating her professionalism during what is obviously a technically sketchy Grammy production (ask Adele) while claiming primal femininity as…

The “so what” is that causes for people of color and especially women of color often go unsupported, therefore unnoticed, and therefore the battle for them drags on. Just saying “so what” is a total slap in the face to women of color who can’t get white people to care when their children are being shot dead in the…

Who is telling you you shouldn’t have been there?

What’s really funny is the Guinness world record reaching y’all stay doing to bash her. Three people were mentioned in that sentence and all you saw was “this site” defending her. 

Also, I don’t think it’s necessarily worth sticking it to the musicians on this year’s lineup, who 1. likely do not have dealings with Anschutz and 2. have certainly signed their contracts long ago, the violation of which would likely lead to legal ramifications. Don’t go vilifying Beyoncé or Kendrick or Lorde etc,…