hazelcills
Hazel Cills
hazelcills
Hazel Cills is the Pop Culture Reporter at Jezebel. Her writing has been published by outlets including The Los Angeles Times, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, ELLE, and more.

And although the answer definitely isn’t “let ‘em all die,” if you can’t at least understand where that thought is coming from, well, you perhaps haven’t suffered in the past year as much as many people have. Read more

I spend enough time in leftbook groups to know that this type of humor isn’t popular with kids. Gen Z humor is like 3 layers of post-absurdism, not impressions or lip syncing.

You make some good points, but it also seems like you didn’t read the whole thing: Read more

Hazel, I’m definitely “suck my dick and choke on it.” Read more

Where does it say that he’s not supposed to return? Hazel simply pointed out that he was returning and the reason for his original dismissal - and being a woman’s site and all, this is something we probably find interesting. But nowhere did she say he should not be able to return, or that it should carry a life Read more

And black people face disproportionately grim economic outcomes, particularly in times of crisis. This article is about black people and specifically black women, not “everyone.” Read more

Yeah, no, it’s not petty to think about black American women who do hair for a living and no longer can due to this crisis and will likely risk their health to do housecalls thanks to a lack of safety nets put in place in this country. It’s also not petty to consider what this pandemic cutting off black women’s access Read more

I did not leave it out. It’s in the graf after the 2015 Fresh Air excerpt. Read more

I was in 8th grade when the entire grade was taken to a community theater production for cats. Read more

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The NYT link puts the video behind their paywall, but the Times also posted it on YouTube, so if anyone wants to watch it they can:

Thank you for this, I have spent all morning looking for a website to tell me who won last night’s game. Read more

But when I hear her voice, there’s no question. That’s the most important thing. Read more

Two books I read and loved recently: Read more