Dear Olivia Munn
By Thea Lim, cross-posted from Bitch Magazine While I was writing our weekly True Blood roundtable with my Racialicious peeps on Tuesday, Tami Winfrey Harris said: Watching King Russell go rogue on...
View ArticlePutting it in my Mouth: Head, Autonomy and the Politics of Giving [Love,...
by Anonymous1 The first time I gave head to a young guy, as a teenage girl myself, I loved it. The tastes, the feel, the rhythmic sucking, the skin on skin feel filling my mouth. I didn’t know what I...
View ArticleThe Ghost of Bigger Thomas Surfaces in Kayne West’s Monster
Kanye has officially overdosed on artistic symbolism. After his 35 minute debut of “Runaway” in back in October 2010, it difficult to figure out how Kanye would top a video that incorporated...
View ArticleGo After the Privilege, Not the Tits: Afterthoughts on Alexandra Wallace and...
By Sexual Correspondent Andrea (AJ) Plaid As soon-to-be-former UCLA student Alexandra Wallace packs her stuff and leaves the university due to fear for her life, I’ve watched how some people and the...
View Article‘He had the courage to day unpopular things': No praise for courting controversy
By Guest Contributor Tami Winfrey Harris, cross-posted from What Tami Said This post is not about Christopher Hitchens. It is just that eulogizing of the writer has me pondering the adulation we give...
View ArticleSalsa and Sexism: Are You Mouthing Misogyny?
By Guest Contributor Rachael Kay Albers, cross-posted from Latina Fatale It is after midnight and I’m in a taxi on the way back to my barrio, mouthing the lyrics to a song on the radio that I’m proud...
View ArticleThe Friday Mixtape – 6.15.12 Edition
Our first track this morning goes out to the sad, sad person behind this hoax: Screencaps via Racialicious reader Lauren. Last week, after Manny Pacquiao’s highly-suspect loss to Timothy Bradley, some...
View ArticleTroubled Waters
by Guest Contributor Cheryl Lynn, originally published at Digital Femme Frank Ocean publicly addressed his sexuality recently, with the same deftness, eloquence, and gentleness that is evident in the...
View ArticleWrap Up: The Five Things I Learned At SDCC 2013
By Kendra James San Diego Comic Con was overwhelming and not for the faint hearted, but also one of the most unique experiences of geekdom I’ve ever had. After taking a week to recover I wanted share...
View ArticleTwerking at Afropunk?
by Guest Contributor Edna Nelson On the first night of the Afropunk 2013 festival, there was an onstage twerk contest. It was not on the program and happened right before Saul Williams was supposed to...
View ArticleIn support of The #IAmComics Campaign
By Arturo R. García The author’s submission to #IAmComics If you’ll allow for a moment of first-person writing today, I’m happy and proud to announce that, in addition to being part of the team here at...
View ArticleQuoted: Reappropriate On Fighting Misogyny in Asian-American communities
I have been routinely accused – often by these very same Asian American misogynists – of having a problem with Asian American men. Let me be clear: I don’t have a problem with Asian American men. I...
View ArticleThe Ghost of Bigger Thomas Surfaces in Kayne West’s Monster [The Throwback]
With Kanye West in seemingly another controversy this week following a mid-concert rant, it’s a good time to revisit Latoya’s look at the furor surrounding his 2011 single, “Monster.” By Latoya...
View ArticleStraight Outta Compton, Black Women, and Black Lives Matter
By Guest Contributor Marquis Bey A friend of mine asked, two days before the theatre premier of Straight Outta Compton, what impact I thought the N.W.A. biopic would have on the Black Lives Matter...
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