What’s interesting to me about this conversation about womanhood and transpeople is that it somehow always seem to assume that all women have been treated the same, legally, in America. We know this is not true. So you have women of ethnic and cultural backgrounds whose reproductive health has never been a priority,…

I think it’s important to address the all of it. This is a group of women who knew each other for DECADES. There is lots of tea. My point is not that it should not be reported on. It’s that there’s a lot more here than he gives us because this is someone who regularly reports on this from a direction that conveys…

How did you get to this as the point of my post? I would like for someone who actually loves us and our lives to write about it with nuance and actually love. I’m not idolizing anyone. I’m complaining about the writer of the post who obviously doesn’t really care about any of their lives deeply enough to give us…

Seriously no one else is around who actually loves Black women, soul music, and understands the emotional connection that we have to so many of our icons? This is the third or fourth totally tone deaf piece from you.  Your review of MJB’s documentary about My Life, which was a seminal album for GenX Black women,…

I am saying that he always has bad takes when it comes to Black women and soul music.  There’s no one else to write about us?!

How much of the stuff that’s attendant to winning an Emmy does Jezebel cover? Black and brown stars are still covered secondarily. Our interest and perspective is regularly overlooked. Great example— the shitty review Jezebel published on Mary J. Blige’s documentary on Amazon. The guy who reviewed it said,…

I’m so sorry this happened to you.  Just have to say it, whether you see this or not.  

The story of My Life, since it dropped, is how it resonated with MJB’s fans, who are primarily Black women like myself. Unlike the author of this column, I have found a lot of information in her lyrics and interviews over the years (notably with Mary Ann French, writing for Essence, and her interviews with Oprah…

One day Erika is gonna run up on the wrong one.  I wish she would say that “or what” bullshit to someone like me . . . Sutton is on the right tack.  She should’ve said, “OR NOTHING, ERIKA . . . LIKE YOUR FAKE ASS TOUGH GIRL BULLSHIT.  I WILL SAY WHAT I LIKE-- YOU GONNA BEAT MY ASS?”

Yes, the man who looked like Death eating a soda cracker was finally undone by his biracial granddaughter in-law and that doyenne of Evil truth telling, Oprah Winfrey.  Despite the fact that this man had one foot in the grave and the other foot on a banana peel, at the age of 99, he was totally, completely and…

And yet, the wording of the sentence doesn’t get us to that.  Kome korrect.  

She has talked publicly about spending around $20k in a week on Postmates.  I think she’s plenty liquid.  

And is mad because his married ass was ghosted by Meghan (from his perspective) after she had ONE drink with him in a bar-- apparently she owed him much more.  

Sure, Letterman’s an asshole. Cher called him that to his face. Guess who’s also an asshole? The n-word dropping, and nasty gram sending Paris Hilton. So, okay . . . what’s the larger balance here? Can we center on Letterman’s inappropriate behavior with Lohan and Hilton today, and then center on Lohan and Hilton’s…

The buried Leonard Roberts story deserves a bigger, better headline.  That piece was well written, thoughtful and full of Hollywood truth that needed to be written. The milquetoast replies from the show runners are pathetic.  I guess the fact that Ali Larter has slunk off into obscurity is her just desserts.  

I’m wondering why it’s a bad thing that women have been hired to run one of the hardest shops in the WH.  Should they NOT have been?  Thanks for asking what I’m thinking!

Adichie’s words, in the Guardian piece, seem to be aimed more at cancel culture than anything else.  But by all means, go ahead and drag her for writing We Should All Be Feminists.  

I’m dismayed at your reply. We’re clearly talking about two different things, and it’s great that you’re focused on making sure you tell me what’s what. That’s going to really help bridge the divides that still exist in the Democratic Party and on the left. Thank you! You HAVE made several salient points, and you…

I’m right about overall totals. I’m not being reductive. This is how we got back here. This is how we keep having the same wash rinse repeat cycles of white people “understanding” about racism and doing something else entirely. This is the continued problem. You think it’s reductive to look at the fact that in the…

THAT PART!!!! Why don’t people remember that Latino can mean white or Black, too.  And the ones who think they are white have mirrored the other white people in this country!