Posts from Tasteful Rude
The Crass Commodification of Black Pain
We can’t ignore the fact that solidarity-as-capitalism silences the Black voices most oppressed.
MONA Is A Devastating Satire
It's no accident that Pola Oloixarac opens the novel with, "Come thirsty."
Categories
‘Girl’ Is Cool, But ‘Woman’ Is Accurate
When we refer to ourselves as women, we defy a culture that fetishizes girlhood.
Writing Ourselves Into Bed
'It’s impossible to self-soothe in a bed built by someone who put you in a trash bag.'
Amy Poehler’s ‘Moxie’ Gives White Girls an (Imperfect) Guide to Activism
The movie includes women of color while failing to center them or critique whiteness.
A Cartoonist Who Reserved The Right to Objectify
'Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez' functions as an exercise in feminine reinterpretation.
How To Break Up With The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
Proximity to oppression makes for spectacular tax write-offs.
An Aspie Man’s Guide to Ladies Night
I need the pattern. Beside me is a person with very large breasts.
Rubbing Salt in the Wounds of the Black Caribbean
In Of Women and Salt, Gabriela Garcia exposes the matrilineal wounds marking a long line of Cubanas.