Arab women love their designers. The malls in Dubai are ridiculous, and filled with women buying high-end clothing, accessories, cosmetics. (Oh, and if you’re ever in Dubai, visit the gold market. It’s STUNNING.)

It’s so weird to me that people are surprised by this. As a Muslim woman I constantly see incredibly fashionable Muslimas and I’m like “damn... I really should get out of my pajamas more often and up my game.” I’m a lazy Muslima when it comes to fashion but when I do go out in actual clothes most people don’t even…

I don’t want them to cast more Black people. For reals. Honestly - right now that show is 100% unrelatable to me. It is one of those things “White people do” - like most horribly embarrassing reality TV. I’m Black & we already have enough negative images on TV - don’t put us on that damn Bachelor franchise as well.

I’d say the reason against this is that the reasons for Jdate or a similar website for black singles is that on a conventional dating website the majority of people on there are already white people. I doubt it’s hard for white singles to find white singles on OKCupid or Match.

40 years ago, my mom kept her last name when she married my dad. She gave her daughters her last name, her son my dad’s. It was never really a problem for anybody, even in the fairy conservative South. Not having the same last name as everyone in my family has never, ever, been a big deal. It does sometimes confuse…

We got married last year and my husband took my last name. It’s so freaking awesome. We can weed out a lot of closeted bigots by their reaction, and gain quick friends who think it is awesome too. Such a simple act that speaks volumes about what we value.

Agree. I live in Metro Detroit, but I have a cousin who has covered this story extensively. Under Snyder, the people of Flint have been lied to repeatedly, and these families have been the victims of cost-cutting measures solely because it was assumed that they’d be too poor and ignorant to do anything about it. It’s…

No, you are getting free college because you are GOOD at football. Quid-pro-quo conditions of performance would be called a “wage” in the parlance of our times, and of course we can’t have that.

In addition to being an obvious violation of the first amendment this also reminds me of how important I think it is for student athletes to have a union. I am a huge college football fan (Roll tide) but it seems so obvious to me that college football should become a minor league for football, and the players should…

Black naturalistas have been doing the co-wash for years (washing with conditioner) and it actually is really good for our hair. Maybe it depend on the texture?

It’s a more perfect example of privilege than that. She’s the plaintiff because the lawyer who went plaintiff-seeking because he’s a racist who wants to destroy affirmative action is an OLD FRIEND OF HER FATHER’S. I think he might even be a college buddy of her father’s.

Yes, the legacy pissed off that legacy…

Totally. Yes. 100%. And also this is magic to watch:

18...out of 36. Don’t get me wrong I’m glad he’s been found guilty at all. I had my doubts the jury would do the right thing . I know there’s some nuance here about why he was found guilty of only half of his charges that I’m probably missing. I just would’ve preferred to hear “guilty on ALL counts”. Still, watching…

This is the problem with these people. They never recognize that they aren’t self-made. Zero humility.

This isn’t just an issue of the campaign. He’s been a garbage person for years (revisit this New Yorker article on the Central Park Five and Trump http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-david…) and yet the collective media rolled their eyes and allowed him to become an influential public figure, giving him a large forum to…

Welcome to El Niño! As a Californian, all I gotta say is, we’d better get that damn rain.

To the people who claim cultural appropriation is a silly buzzword, well, here is literally the best example you can find of it; selling the work of an indigenous people as your own and giving them no benefit from it at all.

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This is my favorite trick to do for new parents. It’s actually relying on a set of standard neonatal reflexes. Makes you look like a magician. Or at the very least, baseline capable.