Op-Ed
Solange Gave Us 'When I Get Home' After A Frustrating Black History Month
After a Black History Month filled with societal strife, Solange’s new music is a salve of Black sisterhood, resilience, and power.
Spam Is 'Trendy' Now Thanks to Decades of American Imperialism
Ironically, Americans introduced Spam to countries abroad, only to then cast it off and eventually rediscover it.
'A Star Is Born' Has Always Been About Emotional Abuse
It's easy for filmmakers to portray abusers as clear-cut villains; it's much harder to treat them with compassion and to layer a story with the moments of levity and genuine connection.
How Rachel Weisz Became the Unofficial Straight LGBTQ Ambassador
People used to love Rachel Weisz for her charming and magnetic romance roles. But that was before the rabid queer internet community and I got a hold of her.
The 2020 Democratic Frontrunners Need to Answer for Their Votes on SESTA
SESTA put my sex worker community in severe danger. We need to demand our candidates commit to better policy this primary.
Stop Calling Food 'Plantation'
In the most generous light, the word can be a clumsy stand-in for “Southern.” But the term can't be separated from enslavement.
Netflix's 'Siempre Bruja' Is a Tone Deaf Erasure of Slavery's Trauma
A prime example of problematic Afro-Latinx narratives, this series finds a slave witch traveling through time to save her lover, the son of her master.
'Broad City' Gave Us the Loser Women We Needed
Loserdom is a universal state of being, yet it’s traditionally been played by straight, white men, for whom failure has the lowest stakes.
You’re Not Allowed in the Anne Hathaway Club if You Hated Her in the 2000s
As a faithful fan, watching you frauds come crawling back into the Hathaway standom makes my blood boil.
Chris Brown Doesn’t Know When to Shut Up
Maintaining your innocence and being an asshole aren't the same thing.
Bikini Kill Might Be 'Back' for 2019, But They've Always Mattered
'Revolution Girl Style Now!' and Forever.
The Women of 'The Sopranos' Taught Me I Can Only Be Myself
On "The Sopranos," women can be wives or mistresses; dependent or independent; but the men of the show, like the men in my own life, may never see them as multifaceted, complex people.