Hands down, the best place on the internet — if you want to see civilians and celebs get celebrated or dragged — is Black Twitter. It was the first to come after an ex-NFL player who questioned Jill Scott’s beauty. It was the first to offer the #ThanksgivingClapBack as a […]
Britney Spears has finally been released from her conservatorship after more than 13 years. On Friday, LA judge Brenda Penny ruled that the controversial legal arrangement denying the singer agency over her own affairs was “hereby terminated” with immediate effect. According to the BBC, no parties involved opposed Spears’ request […]
It’s beginning to look like a lot like Christmas. Except, it’s not — not the sort of Christmas you’d see in movies, anyway. It’s not snowing. There’s not a caroler in sight. “Ode to Joy” does not blast out of the speakers every time you do something awesome. In real […]
The other day, I bought a cheap bouquet of bright pink sunflowers — I spotted them while en route to a birthday party, and they were too irresistible to pass up. The store was empty except for me and a couple of employees, so when the person who checked me […]
It’s cold, it’s wet, and your flatmate has somehow muscled control of the thermostat and refuses to turn on the heat until the end of November. There are only so many layers of cardigans and blankets you can wear – you need to warm yourself from the inside, too. Which […]
Though you don’t (normally) enter into romantic relationships expecting them to end, it isn’t seen as unusual that they do. Breaking up with someone is hard but at least in a romantic context we have the language and the understanding that for some people, it just won’t work. Friendships, however, […]
When the masters of her first six studio albums were acquired by Scooter Braun in 2019, it was Taylor Swift’s ‘worst case scenario’. She described the manager for artists like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, as an ‘incessant, manipulative bully’ and as a facilitator of Kanye West’s alleged […]
You aren’t alone if you’ve been finding it harder to read recently. With the stress of WFH, or going back to the office and the general state of the world, jumping into a novel at the end of the day simply hasn’t felt doable. Thankfully, there is a solution to […]
“It’s lit. Big crowd, open bar, good music and art!” I stared at the text from my friend. I had asked for an update on the event she was heading to and there it was in the most titillating of ways. But I was tired. A day of errand-running and […]
PASSING – (PICTURED) RUTH NEGGA as CLARE. Netflix © 2021 This story contains major spoilers for the Netflix film Passing. The ending of Rebecca Hall’s Passing is ambiguous and shifting, perhaps even more so than Nella Larsen’s 1929 novella of the same name that the film is adapted from. Passing […]
