This week, Bim Adewunmi asks why black women so rarely find love on the big screen. Read that and other pieces from xoJane, VICE, The New York Times, and more.
"Why Is Onscreen Romance So Rarely on the Cards for Black Women?" — BuzzFeed Ideas
It's time for black women to fall in love at the movies — because they do in real life. For BuzzFeed Ideas, Bim Adewunmi asks why black women so rarely find love on the big screen. "Needless 'romance' being foisted on to female characters is clearly a problem that too many movies reach for," she writes. "But here’s another problem: never having romance on the cards." Read it here.
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"Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name" — Jezebel
When Catherine Nichols pitched her novel to agents under her own name, hardly anyone replied. But when she did so using a male alias "George," agents were much more responsive. "The problem reached into every part of my mind — not only that I had written the wrong book, but that I was the wrong person," she wrote of her frustrating experience. Read her essay at Jezebel.
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"What Watching My Granddad Spiral into Dementia Has Taught Me About Life and Love" — VICE
Watching a loved one succumb to dementia is a heart-rending experience. For VICE, Lauren O'Neill remembers the man her grandfather was before he got sick and how dementia has stripped him of his ego. An excerpt: "It's a disease that forces us to confront our most basic, human fears — like losing your dignity, or becoming a burden to the people you love ... Because fundamentally, ego is what makes us human, and dementia takes that very human self-interest away, drip by drip." Read it at VICE.
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"Most Zimbabweans Have Never Seen a Lion" — BuzzFeed Ideas
Although Americans are outraged over the killing of Cecil the lion, many don't realize that most Zimbabweans have never even seen a lion. It turns out, Cecil is not so much a symbol of Zimbabwe as it is of the privileged. "Cecil is a victim of a blood industry that unites foes across countries — but within the confines of wealth and power," Alex Magaisa explains in a piece for BuzzFeed Ideas. Read it here.
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