I don’t want to discount the emotional impact of seeing your community targeted by an authoritarian government. But I’m going to need ultra-wealthy and powerful people to do a little more than cry when faced with injustice.
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'The Idea of You,' 'A Family Affair'—a new wave of romcoms is positioning relationships between older women and younger men as harmless fantasy fodder. And that’s fun, says culture writer Sadaf Ahsan. But let’s not forget how dicey these dynamics can get IRL.
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Iconic Black stylist Law Roach surprise-announced his retirement last week, prompting the fashion world to take stock of how it treats its Black members. While that’s very necessary, we should also be listening to what he said about rest
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A close reading of Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul.” Or, four loosely related thoughts on house music, race and capitalism. (Oh, and also Drake.)
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