This week, Huda Hassan writes about the “Angry Black Woman” archetype used to silence black women. Read that and other essays from Jezebel, Hyperallergic, Jacobin Mag, and more.
"How to Love the Back of a Neck" — The Toast
"When you love a programmer, you must to learn to love the back of his head," writes Sarah Rosenthal. For The Toast, she recounts being in a relationship with a programmer; it's a relationship that ultimately fails. "The set of the data you two have amassed together in the course of three years will be through," she writes. "There will be nothing else to collect, no other courses to run. He will fail your test..." Read the heartbreaking piece at The Toast.
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"Vince Staples and the Accessibility of Black Experience" — Pitchfork
The problem with rap is that those black narratives often get taken and turned into "universal experiences" for all races and people to absorb and claim as their own. Recalling a Vince Staples concert he attended last month, David Turner writes about this conundrum and reflects on the complexity of Staple's music. Read his essay at Pitchfork.
"All the Single Ladies: Why Movies Need More Platonic Pairings" — BuzzFeed Entertainment
Love stories are endearing, but it's a relief when films acknowledge that romance isn't the inevitable option for a man and woman. For BuzzFeed Entertainment, film critic Alison Willmore makes a case for more platonic pairings in movies, praising Mad Max "for not insisting that love or sex is an inevitability from which, barring sexual preference, no man and woman in close proximity can escape." Read it here.
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"Seeing Beyond 'Kimono Wednesdays': On Asian American Protest" — Hyperallergic
After the Boston Museum of Fine Arts launched "Kimono Wednesdays," a program in which visitors are invited to dress up in kimonos, protesters pushed for the museum to stop the misguided social media campaign. The museum did, but some people were critical of the protesters. Responding to those critics, Ryan Lee Wong offered his own interpretation in a piece for Hyperallergic. "When we ask white people to give us back control of our image, and the markers of race, we are struggling for our livelihoods," he writes. Read the rest
at Hyperallergic.
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