I’ve certainly been there, too, not gonna lie! More kindness to others and more kindness to self, that’s what I’m working on these days.

There’s a real racial dialectic when we talk about Latinos in the United States. Latino/Hispanic is an ethnic marker, and includes many racial categories, as you’ve pointed out. There is certainly the colonial history and racial hierarchy at play in many of these communities that aren’t always obvious to folks outside…

We don’t need to defend any of them. Sometimes the best thing for folks to do is humble themselves, listen critically, then do better next time. Eva Longoria has done a good job at using her platform to organize Hispanic voters and push for better representation. I’m cautiously optimistic she’ll be able to reflect…

I love both. M.C.’s having a renaissance of sorts right now, and she deserves it. Has definitely had the hits over time to demand respect.

I’ve found that therapy gets more effective the longer you stick with it, even if you’re switching out therapists. I’ve had three. First was probably decent, but I needed to just get in the door, even if I knew I wasn’t in a place to be receptive. Second wasn’t a great fit for me, and I stopped after a month. Last was…

Not even gonna lie, like 4,000 out of the 2,664,000 plays for Gloria’s “Coming Out of the Dark” probably came from me. 

This is a sad damn truth. It’s also a result of anti-Blackness and anti-Indigenous sentiment. It’s insane, white supremacy is so insidious that it convinces people to carry water for a system that has no use for them.

I hope she looks on the bright side. If she uses her unemployment period to learn a little Spanish, she might be able to get a job working on one of these crews that actually provide a service to society. Growth opportunity if she wants it. 

She should have gotten at least $15 million, and formal recognition in the liner notes in the band’s next two albums. That would be in addition to shout outs on social media and promotion of Lady A’s music and a dual recording, for which the original Lady A would be entitled to royalties.

What would be the point of screening that movie at an HBCU? To teach students that blackface and the KKK are flagrant examples of ethnofascism? Definitely don’t need a bad century-old film to teach that lesson there. All other lessons in film/media criticism can be covered by other texts.

Birth of a Nation is unnecessary to teach in an intro to film studies course. There’s plenty of other examples of parallel editing, or whatever technique you want to teach. If you were teaching a course in, say, the history of fascism and film, sure, that might be a more appropriate venue, considering the…

This was a beautifully written essay. Structure was tight, good mix of reflection/narrative, and really lovely details (“the Piggly Wiggly bags” for one). Really nice piece of writing.

He should be spending each of his minutes thanking the Black voters who single-handedly saved his campaign. Instead, he’s hanging out online, wondering when he gets to start his new job as president.

Tara Reade only made her allegations public in the post-Obama era. She has not changed her story, either. She still maintains all the things she said from early 2019 were true and accurate, and she’s added further context. Might sound like a myopic difference, but it’s not unheard of that someone might need to take…

Alright, I feel totally cheated. Like, I did not sign up for Terminator 5: Jesse Pinkman. How can he just waltz right in three seasons deep and get to be top billing? Like, what has Bernard even been doing? Teddy? Maeve totally got shortchanged.

Come on. If this was literally anyone else (or if this had come out even five months ago), every Democrat would be tripping over themselves to say they believe Reade. It’s a credible and disqualifying accusation. 

Easiest course correction, imo, could be moving South Carolina up to the same day as Iowa, moving Nevada up to the same day as New Hampshire (still one week later), and then let Super Tuesday and the rest of the contests solidify the nominee.

OK, fine, yes, Bernie probably said something idiotic and was too obtuse to know it was offensive. I definitely believe that’s likely.

I want to be better about keeping in touch with friends, and to make more friends, but...

Don’t worry, Melania will be coming out very extremely soon with a sternly-worded statement on how wrong it is to drag kids into political discussions. Just you wait, our FLOTUS means business.