Can’t We Just Be Friends?
You know what really grates on me? When adults see a little boy and girl playing together and try to style them as boyfriend and girlfriend. It speaks to an anxiety around trying to shepherd people into accepted roles and the “proper” ways of relating. And, as one gets older, there’s a whole lot of [...]
...read moreAre black women too religious to get married?
As I’ve previously blogged here, the media has a not-so-subtle obsession with the love lives of single black women. Recently, CNN.com added more fuel to the fire, pondering, “Does the church keep black women single?” We’ve already learned from the mainstream media that black women are too educated, too successful and too independent to be [...]
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Hair-pulling and braid-weaving
Ever since the minor kerfuffle over Titan Games’ Fat Princess, I’ve been wanting to write some more criticism of games, and not just because I love attracting defensive trolls who hallucinate de jure censorship and gamer-reviling boycotts whenever something problematic about a game comes up. Fat Princess is basically a decent-sounding game concept that tragically [...]
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