Obviously you want Pacific Rim-themed Valentine’s Day cards.
Aziza Ahmed, on why zero-tolerance policies are bad news for sex workers and reformers (or reformers who also happen to be sex workers.
Here is a nonsense garbage decision by a fashion magazine, and it has nothing to do with Lena Dunham.
In keeping with my longstanding policy “if you are on the road and don’t have time to form an opinion on a breaking story, ask Roxane Gay,” here is her take on Sasheer Zamata’s first night on SNL:
In the coming days, there will be frenzied discussion about how Sasheer Zamata performed in her debut. We know two things for sure — she rose to the occasion with confidence and grace, and she never should have had to.
The 5K word piece on She’s All That you’ve been waiting for since She’s All That:
A quick word on the cast. Did you know that Lil’ Kim is in this movie? Lil’ Kim! And so’s Gabrielle Union? And Anna Paquin. Even Usher is in this, in a role so unnecessary I can only conclude the casting was some sort of deal made between Miramax and whatever record company he was signed to at the time. Perhaps he was to be the new crossover star – who knows. Also in this movie: Matthew Lillard, still kind of hot from Scream (“I’m feeling a little woozy here!”) and Kieran Culkin (never not good). Looking at this movie from the vantage point of 2014, okay, some have done better than others, but this is a cast that won.
Her trailer, recast.
Your favourite novel isn’t just in your head, it’s actually IN YOUR HEAD. (Thanks, Angharad, whose name should have something like “The Just” after it.)
Ideally, yesterday, you already read this, but if you didn’t, here is a blistering piece in Daily Kos about the actual legacy of MLK, which I think we’ll close with:
That is what Dr. King did—not march, not give good speeches. He crisscrossed the south organizing people, helping them not be afraid, and encouraging them, like Gandhi did in India, to take the beating that they had been trying to avoid all their lives.
Once the beating was over, we were free.
It wasn’t the Civil Rights Act, or the Voting Rights Act or the Fair Housing Act that freed us. It was taking the beating and thereafter not being afraid. So, sorry Mrs. Clinton, as much as I admire you, you were wrong on this one. Our people freed ourselves and those Acts, as important as they were, were only white people officially recognizing what we had done.
