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Cosmopolitan • 9th July 2021

Dear IOC, Please Fix Yourself

Just two weeks ago, Sha’Carri Richardson was on fire at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Calling special attention to the 21-year-old sprinter was her distinct style—orange hair, fake lashes, and embellished acrylic nails. But Richardson’s was only part of...

Popdust • 7th August 2020

The Death of White Escapism in Hulu’s "Palm Springs"

"Like no place else." That's the motto of Palm Springs, according to their Bureau of Tourism, which also pridefully advertises the Southern California desert resort city as a balmy oasis with a rich heritage, iconic modernist aesthetics, and an...

Adolescent Content • 22nd May 2020

What’s in a name? A lot if you’re black.

Just a few months ago, someone from Black Twitter quipped that the reigning women of Destiny’s Child had “some really black-ass names.” The joke reintroduced an old truth: Beyoncé, Tenitra (Michelle’s first name), and Kelendria sound as black as...

Adolescent Content • 11th February 2021

The simulation made me move in with my boyfriend

I never imagined myself being one of those bitches who moved in with her boyfriend after only dating him for seven months. My brain has always considered the decision of cohabitation to be necessarily long-brewing—a gargantuan resolution strategized...

FLARE • 21st September 2020

I Lost My Job to COVID—But Found My Personal Style Again

Scrolling through an iPhone camera roll is the 21st century version of flipping through the pages of a metal ring-bound photo album and romanticizing times that felt much simpler. In 2020, a miserable year that feels more and more like a literal...

Adolescent Content • 9th July 2020

I dated someone with an OnlyFans

Around this time last year, I dated a guy who loved showing ass on the internet via cheeky mirror pics and the occasional film photograph. Cameron’s* mooning-centric Instagram feed was the result of his relatively newfound body-posi mentality; like...

Adolescent Content • 9th July 2020

I dated someone with an OnlyFans

Around this time last year, I dated a guy who loved showing ass on the internet via cheeky mirror pics and the occasional film photograph. Cameron’s* mooning-centric Instagram feed was the result of his relatively newfound body-posi mentality; like...

Medium • 20th March 2020

He was the best I’d ever had. But that wasn’t good enough

Our almost-relationship combusted on my 23rd birthday. He was too broke to take me to dinner — or even gift me a one-dollar greeting card. That night, I ate shitty pasta in my little San Pedro apartment and cried myself to slumber, wishing his...

Sophomore Mag • 8th June 2018

Gated Communities

Black girls gas each other up about their natural hairstyles in the same way that all tipsy girls compliment each other in the restrooms of concert venues and house parties: obsessively and joyously. It’s a simple, unspoken rule that when we rest our...

Sophomore Mag • 6th May 2017

Momma’s Girl

When I meet up IRL with an Internet boy, my mother is the first person to get my iPhone location. She lives a hundred miles away from me, but I know that if my little red pin were to ever land in suspicious territory, she would be the first to call...