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The Wednesday Weigh-In: Sexting, scandal, and the politics of respectability
As if you weren’t hearing enough about what kinds of sex you should like to have, this article happened today. In “Weiner’s Women”, self-declared feminist and secular humanist author Susan Jacoby asks...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Race, respectability, and the murder of Jonathan Ferrell
Our own Mychal Denzel Smith has an excellent and, at some points, heartbreaking, piece on the murder of Jonathan Ferrell, the unarmed 24 year-old shot by police on Saturday for, essentially, looking...
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Scandal and respectability politics: Olivia Pope is not setting her race or...
Popular reactions to Olivia Pope’s extramarital affair with white president Fitzgerald Grant reveal the (internal and external) racism of respectability politics and a sentiment of entitlement and...
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Quick hit: “The logic of stupid poor people”
I cannot recommend this piece by Tressie McMillan Cottom highly enough. It’s about why people who don’t have a lot of money spend money on luxury items. Spoiler alert: it’s because they are people,...
View ArticleStatement about my “Age & Consent” post
Editor’s note: Sesali made the decision to take down the original post. Here is a statement from her: My original post, about my experience with consent was an excerpt from something on my personal...
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Let them live: Josephine Baker, Maya Angelou, and Rihanna as erotic and holistic
Last week when I wrote about women telling their boyfriends to “check their bitches” my ending bio included an exasperated “Maya Angelou didn’t die for this shit.” And I meant it. When it comes to...
View ArticleBoss Wives, Boss Chicks: Love & Hip Hop Atlanta’s sexual scripts and binaries
This season of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta was underwhelming to say the least. The character storylines were edited down to the most basic level, relying on petty gender and sexuality binaries...
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