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Luna Malbroux on Her Wage Gap App and Why It’s Tricky to Be Black and into BDSM
It’s time for another episode of your new favorite podcast, The Cooler! Subscribe in iTunes! Don’t miss an episode of The Cooler! Also available via RSS. This week, we’re joined by Luna Malbroux, a...
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Beyonce Stealth Drops New Album ‘F.E.A.R.’ with 13 Music Videos on TIDAL!
Chances are you’re saying this right now or making this face. I’m not crazy about pranks either, but I am a fan of looking to history to find out why every April 1, we all trick and lie to each other....
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The Kennedy Curse: A Family-Sized Portion of Murphy’s Law
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Gilmore Girls: Let’s Overanalyze the First Official Photos from the Netflix...
Anyone who reads this blog with any regularity or has spent more than four minutes with me knows that I love Gilmore Girls to an unhealthy degree. The kind of love that inspired me to travel nearly two...
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Lost In Translation: Study Finds Interpretation Of Emojis Can Vary Widely
Emojis were supposed to be the great equalizer: a language all its own capable of transcending borders and cultural differences. Not so fast, say a group of researchers who found that different people...
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Nancy Jo Sales on the Dangers of Social Media, Donald Trump and the Infamous...
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Harriet Tubman to Replace Slave-Holder Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill
Last year, I wrote about Women On 20s, an organization whose mission is to put a woman’s face on paper currency by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to...
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Can’t Get Hamilton Tickets? Watch the Next Best Thing: Beyoncé’s 2001 Hip...
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Prince: Celebrities React to the Loss of the Purple One
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called 2016. Many music fans were still getting used to living in a world without David Bowie. And now another artist, who redefined...
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Every Animated Gif of Prince You’ll Ever Need
It’s too soon to formulate words into coherent sentences that can truly capture what Prince means to me, so here is a collection of the best animated gifs featuring our beloved Purple One. If a picture...
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Earth Day: ‘Salute Your Shorts’ Taught Me Everything I Know About...
On a recent trip back East to visit my family, I made them buy a huge recycling bin and educated them on the importance of not throwing styrofoam containers out of the car window on the highway (no,...
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The Best Twitter Reactions to Beyoncé’s Visual Album “LEMONADE”
Beyoncé just caused innumerable heart palpitations, tears and hysterics with the release of her new visual album, LEMONADE, which is basically an hour-long diss track against her no-good, cheating...
View ArticleBeyoncé’s LEMONADE Isn’t the First Time She’s Used Divorce to Play with Our...
So by now, you’ve either seen LEMONADE, heard it or just read all about it on Twitter. In addition to being a bold feminist exploration and celebration of what it means to be a black woman in America,...
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Beyoncé: 11 LEMONADE Lyrics That Have Jay Z Researching Witness Protection...
The main takeaway from Beyoncé’s LEMONADE is that black girls rock really hard and Bey is the most interesting artist in the music industry right now. Another thing the visual album made abundantly...
View ArticleMeet Warsan Shire, the Poet Whose Words Are All Over Beyoncé’s LEMONADE
Beyonce is a big fan of shine theory, the if-you-shine-I-shine ideology that involves propping up other women, instead of seeing them as competition. In 2013, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Achicie...
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Beach House Plays Exclusive ‘Installation’ Show to 200 People Sitting on the...
The first time I saw Beach House was at the Swedish American Music Hall, in 2008. The space was cozy and intimate. There were folding chairs. I was able to snag a seat front-row center, where Victoria...
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Let’s Go Crazy Over Beyoncé’s LEMONADE
It’s time for another episode of your new favorite podcast, The Cooler! Subscribe in iTunes! Don’t miss an episode of The Cooler! Also available via RSS. This week, we mourn Prince and share some facts...
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23 Things You Might Not Know about Prince
It’s been a week since Prince left this world, but I still find myself gazing adoringly at animated gifs of him, listening to his music, watching videos of him, and reading about his life. In the...
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Think You Know What Cinco de Mayo Means? You’re Probably Wrong
Most people are familiar with the idea of Cinco de Mayo, but the knowledge often ends there. See exhibit A: Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!...
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Sorry Not Sorry: The Best and Worst Celebrity Apologies
It’s time for another episode of your new favorite podcast, The Cooler! Subscribe in iTunes! Don’t miss an episode of The Cooler! Also available via RSS. This week, we’re getting into the true meaning...
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