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Walking While Black Can Be Fatal

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Busted for jaywalking...

From Tasteful Rude
On April 1, 2021

The Crass Commodification of Black Pain

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We can’t ignore the fact that solidarity-as-capitalism silences the Black voices most oppressed.

From Tasteful Rude
On March 31, 2021

She’s Your Dyke Aunty

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There are children, and then there are campy children.

From Tasteful Rude
On March 26, 2021

MONA Is A Devastating Satire

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It's no accident that Pola Oloixarac opens the novel with, "Come thirsty."

From Tasteful Rude
On March 23, 2021
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‘Girl’ Is Cool, But ‘Woman’ Is Accurate

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When we refer to ourselves as women, we defy a culture that fetishizes girlhood.

From Tasteful Rude
On March 18, 2021

Writing Ourselves Into Bed

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'It’s impossible to self-soothe in a bed built by someone who put you in a trash bag.'

From Tasteful Rude
On March 16, 2021

Amy Poehler’s ‘Moxie’ Gives White Girls an (Imperfect) Guide to Activism

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The movie includes women of color while failing to center them or critique whiteness.

From Tasteful Rude
On March 12, 2021

A Cartoonist Who Reserved The Right to Objectify

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'Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez' functions as an exercise in feminine reinterpretation.

From Tasteful Rude
On March 9, 2021

How To Break Up With The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

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Proximity to oppression makes for spectacular tax write-offs.

From Tasteful Rude
On March 4, 2021

There Are No Pol(ICE) In The Future

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Alán Pelaez Lopez has visions of a Black queer future.

From Tasteful Rude
On March 2, 2021

An Aspie Man’s Guide to Ladies Night

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I need the pattern. Beside me is a person with very large breasts.

From Tasteful Rude
On February 25, 2021

Dads Give Me Skateboarding Advice

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A strange man rolls down his window. "Do a heel flip!"

From Tasteful Rude
On February 18, 2021

Rubbing Salt in the Wounds of the Black Caribbean

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In Of Women and Salt, Gabriela Garcia exposes the matrilineal wounds marking a long line of Cubanas.

From Tasteful Rude
On February 16, 2021