maiyshakai
Maiysha Kai
maiyshakai
Maiysha Kai is former managing editor of The Glow Up and host of The Root Presents: It's Lit!, and your average Grammy-nominated goddess next door. May I borrow some sugar?

You do know that Puerto Ricans come in all races?

Her face is like “so we’re just checking the lighting right? I’m not really gonna wear a pair of dirty converses over a JCPenny’s portrait studio backdrop for the cover of Vogue now am I?”

Why are the stupidest people so confident? Where does that come from, that sense of confidence that they are good people who mean no harm and can’t be blamed for the shit they do?

I was waiting for Gayle’s hand to come through that laptop screen to slap some sense into her.

65??  Why are you lying to us?

*Puts on David Caruso sunglasses*

I stopped breathing at Vanilla Lice and straight up died at Wacklemore. Good god that was beautiful.

It’s all pretense! And I don’t care how many high profile black faces they gather around Jenna Bush Hager to create a sense of legitimacy, the spotlight will be on her - it is her thing no matter how much air time is given to the black faces.

Show Boat! Yeah, The Horne (h/t Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford) was straight up ROBBED (some more, she has NEVER gotten the respect she’s truly due. She probably could have passed but you never had any doubt that she was a Black woman)

As a Morrison scholar, I am horrified that her death was not met with a national day of mourning. This shit, from a woman whose father dumbed down our own nation, through his educational policies? Fuck that.

Exactly. First, anything other than an appropriately nuanced discussion of The Bluest Eye will fall short of the respect this work deserves. It is not necessarily a discussion a white woman could effectively lead. Ms Bush’s admiration and respect for the work is great but it is doubtful that she can articulate the

She’s how I imagine abolitionists to be during slavery.

I just came here to say that you and Danielle look absolutely incredible. You are obviously radiant make-up free already, but add the level of style and skill that you have when it comes to making yourself up: breathtaking.

I will split the $180 for Mr. Moseley ‘s class w/ another aspiring author-to-be. (I cannot use TWO memberships simultaneously!)

$145 for a pair of sweatpants though.

I am happy to hear that Aweng has been able to pursue help after attempting suicide and that she seems to have continued to do so. I am also happy that she mentions the challenges faced by her wife after the attempt. Speaking from experience, there is nothing I can think of that is harder to process than realizing