Category: Politics
In Case Anyone Needed Additional Evidence That Celebrities Have More Influence Than Politicians, Look No Further Than the Plea to Taylor Swift Amid L.A.’s Hotel Strike
“With great power comes great responsibility.” That’s the Spider-Man platitude so often wielded for those who are actually in offices of power. And yet, it’s [Read More…]
A Tale of Two Parises: Lana’s and Taylor’s/(So-Called) Whites’ and Arabs’
The outskirts of Paris continue to burn in the wake of another grotesque (but sadly, not unfathomable) instance of police brutality. And this on the [Read More…]
Martha Stewart’s Sports Illustrated Cover Is A Landmark Moment…But Also Presents a Double Standard in Terms of Praising a “Correct” Way for Women to Be Embraced As “Sexy” at Any Age
There are “kinds” of women who get lauded for doing the same things that other women have already been doing for quite some time. Martha [Read More…]
The “Difficult” Woman
There is no shortage of examples of the “difficult” woman in history. Better known as “crazy.” For when a woman is deemed too difficult, the [Read More…]
No, Nepo Baby Isn’t An “N Word” That Can Be Reappropriated By Its Own Kind
It was rather incredible that Hailey Bieber had lived in the celebrity bubble for so long that she truly believed her decision to don a [Read More…]
The Pornographic MLK Statue
One supposed it sounded “harmless” enough. “Brilliant” even. Hank Willis Thomas certainly must have thought it was when he pitched the idea. An “emulation” (or [Read More…]
The Eras Tour and the Obvious Connection Between Presales and Selling Would-Be Elitism
As Taylor Swift reckons yet again with having the kind of clout that could invoke the swarming of various attorneys general onto Live Nation and [Read More…]
Ye’s Latest Shock Value “Fashion Statement,” Or: Black People Sanctioning White Supremacy Matters
Just when you thought there could never be a Black man more self-hating than Michael Jackson, Kanye West (or “Ye,” if we must) has gone [Read More…]
Rihanna Joins Up With Jay-Z’s Capitulating Policy on NFL and the Super Bowl: If You Can’t Make ‘Em Anti-Racists, Join ‘Em
It was a rejection of “the Establishment” immortalized on 2018’s “Apeshit.” A single from the seemingly one-off artistic collaboration of Jay-Z and Beyoncé billing themselves [Read More…]
The “Fashion Cunt” Canon Continues to Be Built Upon With Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
What is it about the fashion industry that makes the people working in it feel they have a right to act so self-superior? So gatekeeper-esque. [Read More…]
