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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Mira Nair
By Andrea Plaid Having watched several of Mira Nair’s films repeatedly, I swear her guiding directive is, “If you’re 1) brown, 2) grown, and 3) sexy, you need to be in my film.” From Mississippi...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Jakeya Caruthers
By Andrea Plaid Jakeya Caruthers. Courtesy of the interviewee. Meeting one of my long-admired-from-afar writer/thinkers, Darnell Moore, over coffee-talk about gentrification and public transportation,...
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**TRIGGER WARNING** “I Say It’s All Good When It Really Ain’t:” Rape as...
By Guest Contributor R.N. Bradley Image via madamenoire.com “He so fine, he could rape me so good.” Pause. Yeah. You read that correctly. To borrow from my southern roots, I got “thowed off” when my...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: Jada Pinkett Smith On Willow Smith’s Hair
By Andrea Plaid Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith. Photo Credit: Bauer Griffin. Image via Zimbio What captured the most likes and reblogs in our corner of Tumblr this week? Jada Pinkett Smith on her...
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Sex On Screen: An Intro To The Hella Brown Series (NSFW)
By Guest Contributor Crunkonia; cross-posted from The Crunk Feminist Collective [Watch Racialicious for the first interview in this series coming soon.] Porn is what’s hot in the streets (a.k.a halls...
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Video: Franchesca Ramsey’s Powerful ‘How Slut Shaming Becomes Victim Blaming’
By Arturo R. García Screenshot from Franchesca Ramsey’s video “How Slut Shaming Becomes Victim Blaming.” Late last week, Franchesca Ramsey shared her immensely intimate and painful story regarding...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Heidi Renée Lewis
By Andrea Plaid Heidi Renée Lewis. Courtesy of the interviewee. Once again, Mark Anthony Neal–aided and abetted by one David J. Leonard–committed the kindness of introducing me to another cool-ass...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: Kimye and RuPaul’s Transmisogyny
By Andrea Plaid RuPaul Andre Charles. Via peacockandpaisley.com Racialicious fave Monica Roberts of TransGriot wrote a scathing critique about RuPaul and his transmisogyny–and how they influenced her...
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Lil’ Wayne And Boundaries
by Fashion and Entertainment Editor Joseph Lamour *Warning: Strong Language* So, have you heard about Lil’ Wayne yet? Let me give you the long and short of it: in a collaboration with Future, he used a...
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Meanwhile On TumblR: Whitewashing Urban Fantasy And Anti-Asian Racism In Porn...
By Andrea Plaid Two form of entertainment with passionate defenders garnered some great critiques that drew quite a bit of Tumblr attention this week, starting with Chronicles of Harriet’s Balogun...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: In Case You Missed It
By Andrea Plaid Usually, I highlight some of the most popular posts on Tumblr, some of which appear here on the main R. However, there are some really great posts that may not have gotten the biggest...
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Retrolicious–Mad Men 6.3: “The Collaborators”
Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid Tami and I, joined by Renee from Womanist Musings and Fangs for the Fantasy, watched this week’s ep in horror: yes, at Peter Campbell’s state of perpetual...
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Retrolicious–Mad Men 6.4: “To Have And To Hold”
Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid The crew at Sterling Cooper Draper Price were definitely trying to hold on to something this week–a sliver of self-respect, an image of the role of other...
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Queer Web Series Worth Watching
By Joseph Lamour The Summer Doldrums, as I like to call the break network television gives us from June to September, are quickly approaching. Hot temperatures and a new season of The Bachelorette go...
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Retrolicious–Mad Men 6.9: “The Better Half”
Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid Pete: “Wanna play ‘Father Abraham’?”Joan: *direct side-eye* To paraphrase One Chele from Black ‘n Bougie, it’s Tapback Season…at least on Mad Men. Don,...
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Racialized performances in pop music or Why are Beyonce and JLo so scandalous?
This image is approved for public consumption. Last week, Jennifer Lopez scandalized Britain with a “raunchy” performance on “Britain’s Got Talent.” Not only did viewers flock to social media (as you...
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Why Can’t Black Women Claim Sluttiness, Again?
By Guest Contributor Laura K. Warrell In the June issue of Glamour magazine, spunky rock chick Pink declares herself a “reformed slut,” describing her brush with whorishness as an “unsophisticated”...
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Retrolicious–Mad Men 6.11: “Favors”
Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid Wait…what’s going on with Bob Benson’s knee? Not the move for Bob Benson, Matt Weiner. So not the move. Okay, not such much his knee but the unrealistic...
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The Evolution Of Hula: Traditional, Contemporary, And Hotel
By Guest Contributor Sarah Neal, cross-posted from Sociological Images Earlier on SocImages, Lisa Wade drew attention to the tourism industry’s commodification of Polynesian women and their dancing....
View ArticleFriday Fun: Shanola Hampton Teaches The Sexy To The Real Crew
By Andrea Plaid Not my Crush of the Week yet–I’m planning to catch up on the US version of Shameless when I get a chance–but I had to share this bit of hotness from one of the show’s stars, Shanola...
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