Soooooo true.

I have no idea. There are probably too many factors to consider since that’s a really broad swathe of people. I imagine someone has done research on it though.

Seems normal. I mean, I know so many white people who have no POC friends, which is so crazy to me given the big cities I’ve lived in. I try to maintain at least one white friend for research purposes.

She was in one of those terrible movies about a teenager being terminally ill that I saw recently while puttering around the apartment. But I watched the whole thing because I found her so charming. I didn’t recognize her and when I saw her name in the credits, I was like, “of course it’s Amandla.”

From her mouth to Zoe Saldana’s ears.

Savin’ it up for the clay. And don’t talk to me about Federer! You’ll only fuel my conspiracy theories designed to make me feel better about being such a hater.

Truth. And bummer about old man Rafa. But he does need to take it easy.

I give SEE props for always having quality folks working there. They’re kind of magicians at picking out a range of flattering options. I’m willing to invest in my glasses because I wear them all the time, and they have the most consistently interesting frames. And even though I just dropped a crazy amount of money…

How have we not bonded over this!?!?! I only wear SEE glasses. I was kind of embarrassed about my loyalty to a boutique shop in Georgetown but they’ve been hooking me up for like the last 8 years.

My criticism is failing to use the only spelling of “mama” that I will accept. But it’s a humanizing error.

I feel like I should watch this series even though it’ll bring about a lot of feels. It’s a good thing to face that, I suppose.

I am already planning my gender-bent cosplay of Erik(a) Killmonger. The glasses sold it for me.

I was sitting by this older black dude on the bus who was (loudly) talking to the driver about how he wasn’t going to see Black Panther. I got out my imaginary popcorn to see how this would unfold—his gripe of choice was it’s adjacency to Disney, which, fair enough.

Yeah, I’m not even sure what all encompasses the evangelicals group since 99% of the hardcore Christians I know and grew up with are fairly liberal politically. It’s weird.

Thanks! And I wonder at the protocol of having someone without superior combat skills get the nod—on the one hand, there’s the Black Panther part of the deal. But then you want to make room for a variety of skills too. I imagine there’s a level of negotiation among tribes about stuff like that.

Good call! Thanks.

Yep, and that could make sense if the expectation is taking up the mangle of the Black Panther. Given the existence of the Dora Milaje, I don’t get the sense that a woman couldn’t win at ritual combat just that it’s not the expectation, which is strange.

One of my issues with these debates generally is that they all draw on perpetuating gender norms that I’m not convinced are particularly significant—as you suggest, it’s a way we as humans learn to categorize because not to do so is too difficult and confusing. This has come up mostly in talking to friends about…

What I thought was interesting too was the duality of Wakanda itself. I think the range of perspectives among Okoye, Nakia, W’Kabi, and T’Challa internally keep it from being a one-dimensional idealized utopia (in a good way). I was telling a friend yesterday that for all Wakanda’s wonders and the nobility of most of…

I would have been more critical if it weren’t a genuine reflection of modern day Africa in some sense, and if it didn’t make sense for the story. But it worked narratively. I agree that there’s only one visit to that well though. Next time around, an external conflict is the only way to go.