Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It’s important that I do this when it’s still spongy and damp from the shower. Wait too long and my hair gets drier and less cooperative, making it harder to pull the comb through my natural. (Pro tip: A natural is something black folks sometimes call hair that hasn’t been…
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I was recently contacted by a journalist from a major news outlet about a story on why women who play video games shun the ‘gamer’ label.
The term ‘mansplaining’ typically references a man who might be explaining something (usually to a woman) in a particularly patronizing or condescending manner. This term has usually been relegated to explain White mansplaining. The term at one point had the possibility of propelling the conversation of men…
So why are we really mad at Washington State University Cultural Studies professors for restricting certain words?
Yesterday on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted 16 full minutes to the topics of vicious, misogynist online harassment and revenge porn, the difficulties of stamping them out, and the absolutely unacceptable responses from authorities. The whole thing culminates in a parody of an early 90s AOL ad. It was pretty…
I’ve only recently been made aware of the controversy surrounding Rust. The controversy surrounds lack of choice in selecting characters. Well to be more specific, gamer’s were upset having to play a Black character. Many of these gamer’s went to the internet to make their concerns known. Kotaku author Nathan Grayson…
The recent success of J. Cole has been accompanied by something that no one has yet critically analyzed or discussed. The unmentioned conversation isn’t the controversial Fire Squad verse, or his street philanthropy (Fuck Money Spread Love – google it!), or even the historical moves he’s making in music and pop…
Back when Grand Theft Auto V was originally released, one particular theory about race started floating around. According to some players, the cops in GTA didn't treat all of its protagonists the same. Some players thought that Franklin, the African-American character, got racially profiled by cops.
