May I also submit...

And this is why I don’t care that much about people criticizing her. Cher is out here a whole 300 years old, looking snatched as ever, and being unproblematic. A sexy vampy snack. Meanwhile, the ripe banana of pop keeps careening out of her lane hoping we’ll enjoy the car accident appeal and give her more attention.…

White people taking credit for art created by POC isn’t a good look

Uhhhh but I feel like saying Beyonce and Jay Z, who are increasingly lifting and celebrating black culture, are pulling from Madonna's playbook is kind on offensive? White people taking credit for art created by POC isn't a good look, even if they are Madonna.

I give her shit for often being a clueless white woman. What would make her think that an actual Black female singer would revere her pathetic imitation? 

Having said that, I’ll never stop following her. It’s just too funny!

“So are you ready to hear the truth? It’s full of betrayal.”

I probably say this in too many comments, but they say celebrities are emotionally arrested at the age they became famous, which certainly seems to check out here. 

he decided to start writing a memoir on an old typewriter

Call me when Johnny Depp is selling his scarves, then I’ll believe he’s broke. 

“The Pirates of the Caribbean star said he decided to start writing a memoir on an old typewriter to cope with his post-divorce depression as he toured with his band, Hollywood Vampires.

The format privileges the successful and the extraordinary, popping them out of their context and any social movements or communities of activism or mutual aid that sustained their work. Telling stories for children also tends to file away rough edges, and there’s also the matter of who gets included, which is rarely…

I’ve only sort of realized how absolutely gross being a teenagers in the late 90s/early 00s were. With dicks like Adam Corolla, Girls Gone Wild/girls making out for men’s entertainment, heroin chic models, etc, I know I spent a loooooooong time unconsciously internalizing some really shitty messages.  It’s no wonder…

Sojourner Truth!

Absolutely. Shirley Chisolm would certainly fit the bill. I should’ve thought more before posting. Thanks.

I mean, I read The Street months ago, and I think about some aspect of it at least three times a week. It just stays with you.

Ann Petry. Tragically overlooked participant of the Harlem Renaissance, and important voice of the Double V campaign. Author of The Street, the first novel to earn a female African American author the million-copies-sold designation, and an absolute goddamn masterpiece.

Debi Mazar is amazing and TERRIFYING if she called me out I think I would drop dead from sheer anxiety.