I’m just overly concerned with all the people who might walk away thinking a white woman in the 70s invented the caftan or the turban as a fashion item, let alone for practical usage. Fashion exhibitions can be TERRIBLE, but I love them.

Rest in peace Trayvon, Mike, Eric and Tamir. Your mothers are courageous, strong and full of grace in their grief. Change: It IS gonna come.

I certainly see where you are coming from and honestly I would say that is true of most women; processed hair can look, for lack of a better word, forced which is in a way the point. It is supposed to look like effort was put into it and some people just don't like that. This is true of women with straight hair making…

Thank you so much for this post! It has given me life. If the racists were just the members of the KKK, 99.5% of black people would be experiencing racism in our daily lives.

thanks so much for your reply - as someone who was a victim of child-on-child abuse, i have been having horrific flashbacks since this story broke three weeks ago. it helps to know that others are horrified by what is clearly abusive behavior on the part of dunham towards her baby sister.

Just curious: how old are you?

I grew up in a a majority-white suburb and while I was in middle school and high school Aaliyah was BIG. Her videos were all over MTV (yes, they used to play music) and I even remember they used to have a show that broke down the choreography of NSync, Britney, and Aaliyah videos and the…

out of all respect I love aaliyah"s must I still listen to songs now that makes my day.. She was a legend her music was popular, I don't know where the hell y'all was but back and fort was my shit, yes the movie suck and I feel she deserves a better casting options and storyline but it will be difficult without her…

The difference is, when fat women have strangers make comments about us, we don't get to turn around and see ourselves portrayed positively EVERYWHERE to take the sting out of it.

Or every time a black female artist is mentioned there will always be someone ready to not only to declare their hatred/indifference/whatever of said artist but whine about why we're talking about them in the first place. Meanwhile the Taylor Swift posts contain no such whining. Taylor Swift will never be referred to…

Child, please. This whole thing is just stupid. That's a phrase women use to combat the onslaught of images and rhetoric employed to shame women with the, "OoOOooh, you have to lose weiiiiightttt!!" which is fucking everywhere and incredibly damaging. Real women isn't some elite club, it's women's way of saying, "Nah,…

Privilege. She doesn't even have to acknowledge everything fashion related tells women that they need to be a size double 0.

That's something bout Jez that bothers me. We all clamor for more articles like this, but we don't give them as much attention as we do the 'vapid' celebrity gossip. (And I love love love vapid celebrity gossip).

This is a beautifully written piece, and I learned a lot about the topic (I'd often read Saartje was a slave).

"White Woman Powers, ACTIVATE! Form of: A DEFLECTIVE SHIELD!"

'As she grew, I took to bribing her time and affection: one dollar in quarters if I could do her makeup like a "motorcycle chick." Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds. Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just "relax on me." Basically, anything a sexual predator might…

Can't we all just agree that Lena Dunham is a fucked up sociopath and move on?

Sexual curiosity/play aside, her behavior towards her sister is truly messed up: : "I took a perverse pleasure in delivering bad news to her—the death of our grandfather, a fire across the street—hoping that her fear would drive her into my arms, would make her trust me."

This is questionable behavior. The real sociopathic shit was when she justified outing her sister before she was ready.

They're not decent people.

I hope everyone can be patient during all of this and I hope the community can stay peaceful.