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No, You May Not Touch My Hair. No, I Do Not Feel Guilty About It.

Monday Mar 26, 2012 – by

Last night, while I was trying to catch the bartender’s attention just a few minutes after last call had been announced, a girl I didn’t…

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Tough Love or Too Extreme: Is There Such a Thing As Too Young To Diet?

Monday Mar 26, 2012 – by

I was a chubby child with a complicated love for fast food and disdain for physical exercise. My mother, in her best attempt, encouraged me…

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How Social Media Stalking Taught Me That Competition Is Good

Monday Mar 26, 2012 – by

Disclaimer: I do not in any way condone stalking of any kind. No accounts were hacked; and no information, that hadn’t already been made…

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Rating the Dating Gurus

Friday Mar 23, 2012 – by

Love. Apparently you stink at it. Everyone says so. And by everyone, I mean statistics. Statistics say you blow at this. Goodness! Why…

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Op-Ed: Whipping & Spanking Are Not Cultural Discipline, They’re Abuse

Friday Mar 23, 2012 – by

From Sinbad to Eddie Murphy, Black comedians have made largely Black audiences laugh by telling jokes about being whipped as a child, and…

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Get Up, Stand Up: Why Protests Still Matter

Friday Mar 23, 2012 – by

“GET UP, STAND UP: STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!” The crowds cheered as we marched through Manhattan from 14th street to 42nd street Times…

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Op-Ed: Stop Using Trayvon Martin’s Murder to Discuss Black-on-Black Crime

Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 – by

In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s horrific murder, there has been a palpable outrage similar to the electric emotions that were generated by…

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Am I Really An ‘Angry Asshole’?

Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 – by

In 2003, I was a graduate student at Harvard University, integrating critical race and black feminist analysis into the world of educational…

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I Want Justice, But Not Vigilante Justice

Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 – by

I want justice for Trayvon Martin. I am PISSED at the fact that while he lays six feet under, his killer sleeps in a bed of his choosing…

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Is Facebook Ready for the Dawn of the “Open Relationship” Status?

Monday Mar 19, 2012 – by

“@David is in an open relationship with @Bridgette and @Flora” *blink blink* At first glance I pay the update no mind since I’ve come…

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I’ll Holla: The Pursuit Versus The Chase

Monday Mar 19, 2012 – by

A friend of mine recently tweeted about her disdain for women who pursue men they’re interested in. She argued that if women behave like…

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Black in Brazil: Race, Hair, and Privilege

Monday Mar 19, 2012 – by

Black American media outlets recently exploded over a Brasilian university official asking a black female Brasilian student to leave campus…

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White Women Wearing My Mother’s Dress

Friday Mar 16, 2012 – by

In Selfridges a couple of weeks ago I copped a feel of this Burberry Prorsum dress. It felt exactly as you would expect a £1,795 printed…

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