Ledisi Is Here To Stay
An illustrious career, music true to her New Orleans roots, Grammy-nominated artist Ledisi is all of herself with her newest release, "The Wild Card". Ledisi has long been one of my favorite voices in the music industry. With her effortless
J.K. Rowling’s ‘Troubled Blood’ Adds to The Long History of Transmisogyny in Horror
Villainizing transness and pathologizing gender fluidity in horror, especially among men who seek to "become a woman", is a very old and ugly song. J.K. Rowling's newest book, Troubled Blood—in which a cis man dresses "as a woman" in order to
Kim Parker, The “Sassy, Fat Black Friend” Trope, And The Pervasiveness Of Fatphobia In Media
Kim Parker, and all the other "sassy, fat Black friends" who came before her, are there to make us laugh, but not for us to take seriously as characters or human beings. By Sydneysky G. As many of us revisit Moesha on
Idea: Only Fans PPV but it’s Me Fighting Bella Thorne
My life is not made better by Bella Thorne treating me, or my fellow sex workers, like lab rats to be studied for, apparently fabricated research. Not to participate in internalized whorephobia or whatever, but I wish this new wave of
The Cost of Settling: From Black Lives Matter to Tayari Jones’ ‘Silver Sparrow’
'Silver Sparrow' reminds readers that there is a generational cost to accepting less than we deserve and that for the good of our collective future, we must resist. By Ashely Tisdale After George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin,