He’s a really sweet guy. The agency he’s represented by is dominating right now - their models are fly.

Assuming you’re not being sarcastic and forcing area studies/ethnic studies fields to justify their existence (in which case the higher visibility of racial violence in the media should answer that), many of my students have become teachers, nurses, doctors, social workers, academics (as I did), economists,…

Erichson is Erichsen.

Sooooo a lot of Egyptians Americans just won at the horses today. I knew coming to the U.S. would boost me up one day!

I only carry-on baggage for trips of one month or less, so I have invested in carry-on baggage appropriately, as I need these pieces to last and have practical use. (My check-in bag, which I can live out of for a year+ and four seasons without worry, is a Tumi. They are made by the gods)

Rubbish - that’s annoying to those of us not in the U.S. as well. I’ve never been unseated at the bar (and I mean the bar, not at a random table in the pub, but at the bar, with the barman) by a 7 year old in London, at least. Only in Brooklyn, I suppose.

Yes, I do think that black Americans appeal to Europeans more as “exotic” (as in - they’re black, but not OUR [read: bad, unwanted, formerly colonised by we Europeans] blacks. It’s terribly regressive, though not to anyone who pays attention to European politics. I think it’s important for travelers of colour to…

I’m fluent in French but I look Algerian. So the French hate me. Three years of living in Paris taught me to avoid France as a brown person at all costs (not easy when I have to be there for men’s fashion week twice a year).

I second the professional shoe fitting and it also sounds like your feet begin to swell as pressure builds in your feet - hence the cutting/blisters from heeled sandals. If you don’t do this already, resist the urge to buy your “usual” size in heels - particularly in designer shoes, which vary widely (I am a 37 in…

This isn’t exhaustive by any means, since the initial furor over nail salons as vehicles and fronts for human trafficking (largely of Vietnamese girls and women) was a few years ago in California, but here is one source:

I pre-roll cigarettes and line them up neatly, filtered tips hanging just over the surface of my desk so that while commando and wine-drunk after a self-manicure, I can grab one and light it with the candle without ever using my hands.

LA is among the worst offenders in terms of nail salons - the same problems exist there as in New York. Indeed, human trafficking through nail salons in Los Angeles is more common than it is in New York - so there’s a whole host of other limitations there.

The outrage would still be there, and the success rate would be about the same - ask any black woman professor in your acquaintance what their student evaluations looks like each semester. Whether we’re teaching chemistry, neuroscience, lit, or Black Studies, we sure do have a loooot of similar reviews from a certain…

I’ve had my (U.S., this is not an issue when I’m in the UK obviously) doctor write me Rx for Plan B because then it is completely free - if I need it suddenly and request it over the counter, I need to pay. So I just stock up ahead of time (now I have an IUD and no longer require hoarding Plan B - my mates in the U.S.…

What happened to James Norton’s hair?

You can just make it yourself and do it at home. My Egyptian family has been doing that for at least a few centuries.

An ongoing and successful campaign on behalf from organizers and allies of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS), whose increasingly successful efforts at promoting the economic, academic, and cultural boycott of Israeli economic, academic, and cultural institutions borrow from the history of (and is often…

Menzies has gone full-frontal before (notably, in Rome), so definitely not a prop.

“Never 21” =/= a play on Forever 21.

Buhari put Fela in prison while Major-General after the 1983 coup.