When Celebrities Fake Class Solidarity To Seem “Relatable”
Celebrities often fake class solidarity, while living in a completely different reality. To see Chrissy Teigen and John Legend continuously pretend to understand the needs of lower-class Americans is beyond maddening, but not surprising. By Priyanka Bansal While many of us were
The Garden Grant and the Perils of Being A Wallflower
The Garden Grant encourages diverse, nontraditional creators to make experimental and escapist art. The Verdant Fund repackaged the idea and refuses to credit its creator. By Maacah Davis Here are the three things you’re supposed to do when a larger, more established
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Uses Blackness and Bisexuality To Serve White Heterosexuality
The Queen’s Gambit is marked by both misogynoir and biphobia, as Jolene and Cleo operate as stereotypical plot devices that bolster up the straight/white power of chess prodigy Beth Harmon. By Maz Hedgehog CW: substance abuse, alcoholism, and spoilers for Netflix’s 'The
Just A Bunch of Pandas To Get Us Through The Election
Pandas. We need them, you need them, so we simply compiled an extremely important dossier of 21 panda pictures to get us through the week and beyond. Yeah, this week is really fucking difficult. Actually, this whole year, decade, lifetime has
The Capitalistic Ties of #BlackExcellence Are Linked to Internalized Respectability and Classism
#BlackExcellence is a methodology, an ideology, a marketing schema, and an aesthetic, and it deserves to be re-examined for its elitism and the capitalist exploitation it can and often does engender. By Dalí Adekunle There has always been a place in the