Sia choosing to put a 12 year old Maddie Zeigler in a cage to dance/fight with a half-naked Shia LaBeouf really bugged me when the music video came out in 2015. And it's one of those decisions that ages worse every year.

I see my comment to the very sad individual below has disappeared.

Frustratingly, communities often seem all too willing to hand wave and look the other way where known abusive men are concerned so long as that abuse is inflicted on his partners alone. It makes it really easy for them to dismiss it as “messy couple stuff” and “nobody else’s business.” People don’t start to rally…

“I’m not in any position to tell anyone how my behavior made them feel. I have no excuses for my alcoholism or aggression, only rationalizations. I have been abusive to myself and everyone around me for years. I have a history of hurting the people closest to me. I’m ashamed of that history and am sorry to those I…

“Cardi can’t rap worth a damn and it’s noticeable as hell when she’s performing with someone who can.”

Goodness. It’s almost like after not being called out or facing consequences for anything for almost 30 years has left the guy with the impression that he can say whatever he’d like whenever he’d like, without regard to the setting or appropriateness. So weird.

I hate to “well actually,” but young voters turned out in droves for Sanders and Warren. The problem was two-fold: the establishment rallied around Biden, while Sanders and Warren split each other’s votes (I was fucking prescient about that) and cost the emerging progressive, Sanders, momentum. And while young voters…

“If Kobe was a rapist, he represented a ongoing danger to every woman around him.”

Thanks for writing this examination of King’s interview. Your journalistic approach (among others like Damon Young) is well needed to understanding the complete picture of Kobe Bryant.

Well written, smart, fair piece. Hope you don’t get roasted for it.

True, but we aren’t there yet. Right now we need to pick not just someone to win, but someone who will make a serious change to the status quo, otherwise we will be right back here next election cycle, and it will be another wanna be fascist.

We deserve much better than Joe fucking Biden but unfortunately, too many Black people keep settling for less politically speaking.

She doesn’t look like herself.

She is a public figure and she did something, maybe not surgery, to radically change the look of her eyes before hitting a public venue where she would be heavily photographed. We’re not supposed to comment on the difference or ponder the why and how? I found it fascinating that she could make such a huge difference…

That diverse marketing ploy crap is so transparent (and white, natch). The last company I was at was insistent on making diversity in their public image a top priority without ever addressing that there were exactly zero POC in any executive positions.

‘cause I’ve been a GOOD BOY!

As a black, cis-gender and bisexual woman, I used to have the common trail of feeling that I was “safe” from homophobia and bi-phobia. After all, there aren’t too many reports about violent acts of biphobia against women, hitting new feeds.

Everybody is colorblind until their daughter brings home a black man.  Nobody cares if your gay until their son/daughter comes out.

That was painful to watch. Poor kid. I can feel his heart racing. Body flushed with heat. Trying to keep himself from shaking as he remembers all the times his identity has been attacked. Looking around and finding no one’s got his back.

I used to be the same, with the “You’re gay, who cares?” I thought this was the enlightened approach. But that shit is the same as people who say they don’t see color. I don’t care, because my privilege allows me to not care if Lil Nas X is gay. But that’s a part of his identity and if he wants/needs to express it,…