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Awkward Black Girl: Sparking A New Renaissance
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl ended its first season last week, disappointing throngs of viewers across the globe that —…
A Curl Is Just A Curl Except When You’re A Black Girl
Self-acceptance is a recurring issue that, across the board, every one deals with from time-to-time in our “Is real or is it Adobe…
Will You Take This Man—and His Last Name?
After two years together, The Man and I are in the early negotiations of happily ever after. You know, that contemplative what-if stage that…
Are We Biased?
“She didn’t shoot any hoops, win a single game or do anything worth having half of that man’s fortune,” one of my good guy friends…
Girl Crush Confessions, Do You Have One?
Just about every woman has one. It’s what most men’s sordid sexual fantasies are made of, but they have little to do (maybe) with our…
Stroke Skills: Why Men Should Be More Than Jack Rabbits
There’s nothing worse than a man with no rhythm in the bedroom. And usually, I’m more than willing to instruct my lovers how to stroke…
Child Support: The Big Payback?
I was a little disappointed when Nas and Kelis split up. I liked them as a couple: the spirited songstress with the devil may care attitude…
Not Everyone’s Laughing At “Shit White Girls Say To Black Girls”
This one time at journalism camp (Yes, there is such a thing.), a white friend that I had been bonding with for the week, leaned over and…
Putting End to Victim Blaming in 2012
2011 was a busy year for anti-rape activists. Bookended one side by a discussion about the gang rape of an…
Diary of a Mad Fat Chick
Call the law. Somebody—I don’t know who would’ve pulled a mean trick like this, but somebody—broke into my apartment, crept into my…
Getting Back Out There…In A Nursing Bra: Too Soon?
Like a widower, the mother who splits with her lover during pregnancy–or more acutely, because of it–is expected to sustain an extended…
Why Oprah Isn’t Enough to Fix OWN
Oprah Winfrey has returned to television, but I don’t think she returned in the way she wanted. After all, when she retired from her daily…
Black Folks Can Be So Embarrassing At Times
My, how I love my people and all of the idiosyncrasies of our Blackness. I do. But that doesn’t mean that every once in a while, something…
Black Women’s Biopics We’d Love to See
With the recent rise of more independent black women directors, such as Ava DuVernay (I Will Follow) and Dee Rees (Pariah), it stands to…
Men In Boxes & Other Places We Put Them
Over the past few months I’ve been having interesting conversations about how men and women communicate. While women tend to be more vocal…
Embracing Black Feminism: “Ain’t I A Woman?”
During my childhood in the Deep South — surrounded by antebellum homes, plantations and the residual psychological, physiological and…
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