His name is Tyrion. Of course he’s black.

That’s what made me drop it. Not only is it boring, but nothing ever changes - shit is never ever getting better. So what’s the point?

I graduated almost 10 years ago and I identified with most of the stuff on this list, so I don’t think it’s generational. Might just be institutional or down to different experiences.

LGBTQ issues weren’t at the forefront of conversations in the late 1980s?! Please go back and read some history. The late 80s were the time of the HIV/AIDS crisis and ACT UP, glam rock and Madonna, Paris is Burning and the House & Ball community...just because you didn’t see it on mainstream network television didn’t…

Or they just watched a whole lot of Cosby show.

Tone policing, really? Sometimes we really just DON’T want you to talk to us. #1-4 are excellent examples in which everything in a woman’s body is screaming “Don’t talk to me.” If you are insulted by the fact that I want to work out or talk on the phone in peace, you don’t deserve attention, and YOU’RE the one being…

I hate that “women are mysterious” shit. That’s just an excuse for dudes who want to intentionally misread women’s signals - or ignore them completely - so they can do whatever the fuck they want to do. I’m not mysterious; you just need to listen to me and use your brain for a couple minutes.

In whose families? I got lots of friends who went to different HBCUs and it’s all HBCU love. Except when the Howard and Hampton cats get into an argument about who is the “real HU” and the rest of us all either roll our eyes or instigate.

This is making me heavily regret not having gone to homecoming this year (Spelman/Morehouse). I originally planned to and then life got in the way. Oh well. Next year!

Yeah, so I was thinking the same thing. JT ain’t soul-ish or even soul-adjacent. Like many a white man, he’s a pop star who uses soul and R&B elements in his music to get airplay.

You know, I just went to see Janet Jackson in concert a couple weeks ago and was thinking about this. Janet’s career momentum really got completely trashed by the Super Bowl incident. I mean, in early 2004 Janet was coming off a successful world tour; All For You, her previous album, debuted at number 1 on the…

You. Are not. Listening.

No, you ARE completely missing the point - because the point of the article is WHY can’t we not rely on men to believe and defend us when we go to them for help? The article and the topic was not about what women can do to protect themselves - we’re always hearing that from every possible source. Didn’t you read the…

Man, I was originally planning to head back down to Atlanta for homecoming and had to change my plans because of work. Sad I’ll be missing it especially since it’s an AUC homecoming this year...but there’s always next year, my 10-year reunion year!

A white student was valedictorian of Morehouse the year I graduated from Spelman. He got a lot of press and even has a Wikipedia article, which I have many, many feelings about.

OK, I thought I was going crazy because me neither. I went to Spelman from 2004-2008 and we always called it the promenade. I was just back there for a recruiting trip in late September and the current students were still calling it the promenade.

Yes! I always love hearing about HBCU experiences from other places...it’s wonderful how we’re all bonded by such a similar experience.

I feel like women’s colleges get it more than co-ed PWIs because there’s a shared experience/identity there, too.

One of my line sisters is like this with her daughter, who just started high school this year. She’s not limiting her to the HBCU she attended (Hampton), but she said her options are pretty much to go to an HBCU or...go to a different HBCU. LOL. The thing is, she’s been training her since birth that an HBCU is the…

Yes, I’ve been waiting for this one! Spelman is where I learned about the incredible diversity of black people and black women specifically, where I grew the confidence in my own being as a black woman, where I learned that there were successful black women in every walk of life and I didn’t have to listen to the…